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“Iran's military escalation poses a direct threat to international stability.”

“The conspiracy of those rooting for our enemies is an America Last philosophy.”

“We're looking at the evolution of Chinese policy towards Taiwan. Although China always said that their policy has been very consistent on Taiwan, like they are for the unification. But during the Hu Jintao era, basically China, the focus is on preventing Taiwan from declaring independence. But in the Xi Jinping era, the whole focus is bring Taiwan in, whether Taiwan like it or not, even though time does not declare independence. So Xi Jinping is more for unification and at my own speed.”

“And recently, new development is actually in Korea. Not about Korea country itself, but the US presence in Korea. And then the probably China started to realize that the nearest base from the United States toward Beijing is actually a US air base in Korea. That's a new realizations. And I hope that the China will take that into heart.”

“President Trump hints at negotiations as the war in Iran continues.”

“Yeah, first talk about the cyber, right? Taiwan experienced like basically the warlike situation by China on Taiwan about the cyber attack. In year 2004, the average daily attack by China on Taiwan, daily, we have about 2.4 million attacks every day by China in the cybers. And then last year, it had been slowly upgraded to 2.63 million attacks a day.”

“And the plan is that should the blockade and the energy that really happens, Taiwan probably will reopen its nuclear power plant as the power for our energy supply. And also, we probably will also limit our usage of the natural gas and increase the composition of the coal for Taiwan's energy usage. And the possibility of reducing the production for the semiconductor as well as other energy-consuming industries in order for Taiwan to sustain our defense, that will be an important part of the measure that we have to adopt.”

“We also noticed that the Russians' activity along with China on Taiwan increases dramatically in the last years. So that if the Russians prevail in its plan on Ukraine, at that time when China decided to attack Taiwan, we are going to face not just one country, like China, but the probably the Russians' involvement, whether directly or indirectly, that's going to be there. So that's double worry for us.”

“But then before the Zhang Youxia's downfall several weeks ago, what we do see, what we thought that is that Zhang Youxia seems to be the person that will be immune from those. But it seems that Xi Jinping just cannot stand with a person that could be powerful or could be potentially challenging his role about the PLA. So I think that about the Zhang Youxia, it's more about how Xi Ming feel that whether Zhang Youxia is threatening his positions or Zhang Youxia overstepped the authority of the PLA.”

“But when we look at the invasion capability of the PLA, we do not think that before year 2027, they could have that capability because they just do not have the kind of projection capability as well as the air and the sea lift capacity that's necessary for the amphibious operation against Taiwan. However, about the PLA capability, we do think that should they want to launch the blockade, they probably will be able to do that. And as well as the quarantine operation.”

“Yeah, I think the second Trump administration, what we learned so far is that it's very different from the first Trump administration, that all the assumption that we have about the first Trump administration probably will no longer apply for the second Trump administration. And when we look at the National Security Strategy, we do find that there's a reordering about the priority, especially on the foreign affairs, and it is more focused on the domestic as well as the Western Hemisphere.”

“Iran ups the ante by firing a long range missile capable of hitting Europe.”

“We examine the collaborationists who are rooting for the rise of China and Russia.”