deter ration of the relations between these two countries will not be good for china, it will not be good for the united states, and it will not be good for world peace and development. therefore, i think we need to do whatever we can to improve the relations. then why has china taken the unusual step of saying that it s going to slap sanctions on u.s. firms and cancel military engagements and visits and the like? why do that over taiwan, which the u.s. has been sending weapons to for the last several years? from the chinese perspective, this taiwan situation is of utmost importance to china s national interest. china considers taiwan to be a part of china, therefore china views the u.s. arms sale to taiwan unprecedented in the level of sophistication as a major kind of a step to upset china s national interest. therefore, i think china has the justification to be very unhappy about this. and china has taken very unprecedented steps of imposing sanctions upon those u.s.
earlier win spoke about all of this with former chinese government official, victor guo. let me ask you, president obama, at least from the chinese perspective, had a very pleasant trip to china earlier this year. why all this incredible tension right now? first of all, i think any deterrence of relations between these two countries will not be good for china, for the united states, or for world peace and development. therefore, i think we need to do whatever we can to improve the relations. then why has china taken the unusual step of saying that it s going to slap sanctions on u.s. firms and cancel military engagements and visits and the like? why do that over taiwan, which the u.s. has been sending weapons to for the last several years? from the chinese perspective, this taiwan situation is of utmost importance to china s national interest. china considers taiwan to be a
ministry of state security. government agencies. i wouldn t impact the chinese population. that s bound to have a rally around the flag effect and maybe incite the chinese population against the u.s. in your new book, you argue that while the u.s. is focused on building up military-strength rivals such as russia and china are more focused on other kinds of attacks. cyberattacks, propaganda, disinformation. is the united states in any way prepared to deal with those threats from the chinese and the russians and iranians and north koreans as well? i don t think so. i think particularly when you look at the u.s. department of defense, a lot of the focus on the war games are a big conventional fight with the chinese over taiwan. and i think what these actions really show is where the chinese are coming after us is not an invasion of taiwan. where they re coming after the u.s. is on an economic side, the broader espionage side.