Friends of Mr. Debating Society, I'm John Batch with Professor H. J. McInder, International Relations.

Just a few minutes for the Professor to comment on the success of Tsying Wens tour of America, North America,

to from New York to Central America to visit Belize in Guatemala City, onto Los Angeles,

to visit with the Speaker of the House.

And at the end of the week, after Chinese threats were tossed around in all languages,

there were some more planes who flew over the Taiwan Strait.

The attitude in Taipei was, what else you got?

The understanding was maybe China was constrained because the General Secretary was walking and talking with Macron.

Maybe China was constrained because, fill in the blank.

McCarthy didn't travel to Taipei as Nancy Pelosi has at the Speaker of the House.

Professor, just a few minutes, your thoughts about Taipei's very successful week.

Well, the first thing to understand is, the whole Taiwan problem is one that the United States created itself.

As a result of thoroughly misguided China policy, first under Nixon and Kissinger,

then far worse when Brzezinski took over, the whole premise of American diplomacy until about 10 years ago,

and maybe not even that, was that Taiwan was a puppet state of no importance.

The China was effectively would be an ally of ours against Russia,

and that it was, that the minute that we cut relations with Taiwan,

as we finally did in January 1st, 1979,

that there would be collapse in Taipei.

It's not clear to me that Mr. Kissinger, whose scenario this is, is ever even been to Taiwan,

I always tell him to invite him, go to the doctor of laws or something,

but I don't think he has really no familiarity with it,

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