And there's no question that US politicians, including the former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, acted in the visits as

if Taiwan is an independent country. And

I spent enough time in Beijing to see why the Chinese leadership think there's a deviation from the status quo going on. And I worry a little bit that we are gung ho about Taiwan without having a particularly good strategy for the eventuality of a crisis. Let me put it to you that next year, I don't think it'll happen this year, but next year with the Taiwanese election in January, the US presidential election in November, it's going to be a very dangerous time if we carry on down this road because we are nowhere near the British Colby's strategy

of denial. We're not really credibly able to deter China at the moment. I worry a lot that

the Biden administration failed to deter Putin. I mean, let's not forget you failed to deter him with respect to Ukraine. And I worry that they're going to fail to deter Xi Jinping with respect to Taiwan. And then we're really going to be stuck with a much bigger, much tougher situation. If let's suppose the Chinese blockade Taiwan. I don't think going to be some visions what we should really be focused on. Suppose they blockade it. What do we do? Do we really have in your eyes, a credible plan for next year? Let's just talk hypothetically about next year if we get into that situation. That's my biggest short run concern. I'd love to get your current thoughts on that.