with taiwan. love to sit down and talk with them about that. bill: flip it around. you write the following. america could enhance its east asia military posture by increasing u.s. military sales to taiwan and stationing military personnel and assets there. probably negotiating favorable financial terms. china would see that as instigation. well, they would see it, i think, they should see it as a response to their building islands and air and naval bases in the south china sea. we had military facilities in taiwan for many years until jimmy carter derecognized the republic of china in 1979 and congress responded with the taiwan relationships and we have plenty authority to increase our military relationship. if china doesn t watch it. it is an urgent subject for discussion. bill: let s get together and talk. some people would argue you are adding fuel to the fire there.