sending u.s. troop s is on the table if china invades taiwan. reporter: so, speaker mccarthy and yourself have said that multiple times now, that we need to arm taiwan now before there s any sort of invasion. what about u.s. troops? i think, you know, then you re talking about an authorized use of military force that would comauthe out of myat committee or a w declaration of war which we haven t utilized since world war ii. reporter: would you supportda that? i think if communist china invades taiwan, i think that ise certainly if the american people support this, the congress will follow. sean: this visit came days after house speaker kevin mccarthyn and other lawmakers meant with taiwan s leader at the ronald reagan presidential library in california.s mccarthy says the country siw support foanr taiwan is resolute and unwavering. house china committee chairman mike gallagher said moments after th ge meeting that washington shouldn t be scared b to have these kind of
united states ofy be america.. well, sean, clearly the t chinese communist party is trying to intimidate us. they re trying to bully us. they re massive bullies on the worle d stage. they would like to reunify taiwan with the mainland byai forcnle if necessary. xi jinping keeps saying this, t of people in the elite wall street world, in the elite big tech world, in the i elite hollywood world keep discounting it despite the fact that he keeps saying it. but, of course, xi jinping would love to achieve that the the reunification without force if possible. and the way to dreunifo that ist through psychological warfare. it s through economic coercion, it s through political warfare. and that s really what the president of taiwan has been warning us about. it s what she calls cognitive warfare. it s important for the americaen people not to be intimidated. and the fact that the chinese were throwing a temper tantrum about the speakerrer of theea houskee meeting with the democratically-el