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what we're in right now. In a wonderful set of conversations today, Chris Whalen was just spectacular his negative thoughts on bitcoin, talking about the dynamics there and the retaalization of bitcoin, and of course he's been outfront in criticism of what the Trump administration is doing. With Fanny May and Freddie Mac. We thank him for a heated conversation. Brian Eggers was with us with Bloomberg Intelligence on this
whole betting thing. You know where Paul Sweeney and I fit in on this just sort of basically at the whole thing. China front and center headlines coming out through the entire show on Ukraine, but China really front and center? Is this time different for Taiwan? Elizabeth economy is definitive at Stanford here is doctor economy and she and the military.
There's no doubt, you know. She Jinping has said he wants the Chinese military to be prepared to take action by twenty twenty seven. That doesn't mean that they're going to launch any kind of military invasion in twenty twenty seven. He's just put that down as a marker for when he would want the military to be prepared to take Taiwan.
So I'll just say I was in tai in mainland China, just came back Saturday, and one of the things that our delegation heard was from a retired senior foreign policy official that China is not prepared to wait two hundred years and that it is prepared to take any form of military action. So I think, you know, the the heat is is, you know, it's only getting hotter for Taiwan at this point, and.
Of course with Taiwan, it is about the short termism of the American political process versus a long term belief of what China looks at. Here again, Doctor Economy on Beijing and Washington.
I think, look that there's still a sense within China that President Trump can be very unpredictable. They see some openings with President Trump, and I think the recent phone call that was initiated by Sijenping is evidence that, you know, Cijenping wanted to send a message about Taiwan, certainly that Taiwan is part of China and doesn't want the United States to wade into this you know, Japan, Mainland, China boujaha.
But I think he was also probing to see whether President Trump might be willing to do something on Taiwan, especially in the wake of this, you know, US Russia negotiation over Ukraine and that initial peace plan that they put forth.
Elizabeth Economy, Stanford University, and of course forever the Hoover Institution. On podcasts, on Apple and Spotify, and on YouTube podcasts. This is single best idea