imposing on its people, government and big banks working together to try to enforce woke social and economic policies on private businesses. maria: it s actually quite extraordinary as you mentioned blackrock and they are perfectly fine operating in china. they told their investors to up their investments in chinese companies by three times and yet they are attacking american companies for fossil fuels and last time i checked china was the biggest polluter in the world. i have to get your take on china. moments ago you said what will the ukraine situation mean for xi jinping as he eyes taiwan. when do you expect china to invade taiwan? well, i think xi jinping believes today that his military is capable of invading taiwan. they can execute that operates and if he gives the order. if america doesn t come to its support. there are reasons why he might not do that imminently like the winter x coming up or the party congress later this year was the chinese communist party will give him t
harvesting under the guise of coronavirus testing or around-the-clock electronic surveillance or outright arbitrary detention and hostage taking in the biden administration had no answer so a couple months ago i called for a complete total boycott as the only vic s approach my fears grow. china is requiring all persons coming to the country for the alembic s do download an app on their phone which has all kinds of backdoors to it. they recently arbitrarily arrested and detained one of their own most famous tennis players and if they will do that would to one of their own, what do you think they will do to an american athlete especially if they speak up on state tibetans or hong kong or taiwan. it s dangerous to send our athletes and coaches today are these only vicks should be postponed because of the coronavirus raging across china. that help ended with the tokyo olympics and this is a much smaller set of olympics that can be conducted a year from now. maria: what an incredible story.
rest of the world see joe biden s debacle in afghanistan so that s why vladimir putin thinks the timing is right here and why this matters to the american people, it s very dangerous when you allow our adversaries like russia, china and iran to try to upend the status quo and all we do is have strongly worded to speeches or some mealymouthed sanction so if vladimir putin can get away with this in ukraine, what does that say to xi jinping about what he can do in taiwan or to threaten our military positions in the western pacific, what sheet on trade deals to take jobs and wealth away from this country and that s why the american people care about what happens in eastern europe is because it emboldens and encourages our adversaries everywhere if we simply look the other way when vladimir putin invades ukraine a. maria: i went to get to china and the taiwan potential in a moment, but let me stay on eastern europe for a moment because not sanctioning the nor
in power, but after that , i think when the geopolitical conditions are right, maybe when the weather data is suitable in the taiwan straits especially if the vladimir putin pulls off an invasion of uke ukraine you could see xi jinping go for the jugular in taiwan and that s why it s important we stand by our commitments around the world and that we be especially clear that we will come to taiwan s support to defend its democracy and its autonomy. maria: and quick before you go, senator, you were among the few who wanted a total boycott, not just diplomatic boycott of the beijing olympics and we are about to talk with enes kanter freedom coming up. do you worry our athletes are going to be under a pressure in any way. gordon chang said the ccp will try to get their dna what are our athletes about to face? very much so, maria. last summer i asked the biden administration their plan to protect athletes and coaches from things like dna
in power, but after that , i think when the geopolitical conditions are right, maybe when the weather data is suitable in the taiwan straits especially if the vladimir putin pulls off an invasion of uke ukraine you could see xi jinping go for the jugular in taiwan and that s why it s important we stand by our commitments around the world and that we be especially clear that we will come to taiwan s support to defend its democracy and its autonomy. maria: and quick before you go, senator, you were among the few who wanted a total boycott, not just diplomatic boycott of the beijing olympics and we are about to talk with enes kanter freedom coming up. do you worry our athletes are going to be under a pressure in any way. gordon chang said the ccp will try to get their dna what are our athletes about to face? very much so, maria. last summer i asked the biden administration their plan to protect athletes and coaches from things like dna