We have had a long standing practice of helping sales of equipment to tiwan as part of our commitment to a peaceful resolution. Having forces there is actually really useful, because it basically means that if shising pan wants to invade tian, he might be killing americans inadvertently if i bombed tiwan. I mean, part of this game here is, who's going to be declaring war on who? And so he would much rather invade tiwana g if the us. Is not in tiwan, because then, for him, the ball would fall in our camp about whether or not wer r going to be te ones pulling the trigger.
Jason does a short news segment on China’s Bitcoin Mining hash rate falling to 0 and how the U.S. is now the largest mining hub (1:59). Then, Jacob Helberg author of "The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power," joins to discuss China's long-term goals (9:03), the United States' lack of preparedness, the struggle for control of front-end and backend technologies (32:22), plus much more.