independenceieve s. we re at which point we resumeur our current posture of strategicurrent c ambiguity, whh is exactly what the u.s. adopts today. ss todao short answer let me> hypothetically, if u.s. position is a one china policy. yeah. let me ask you this. at what poin e china ean: lett, for example,f russia wanted to put nuclear weapons, 90 miles south of cuba, our border in cuba, we did have a cuban missile crisis. what would your posture be there? in other words, if you re saying as long as taiwa?n set against semiconductor chips, we ll help them. but after that, they re odunh their owelftern? no, you re actually sean, and that s again, how my position has been caricaturesit: i will remind you and i everybody else right now, you seem to be sayintog, i m listening. no, it s not what i m saying, because. well sayin, i ll be i ll give iy to you very simply. right now, the united states policy towards taiwan is a one china policy. donald trump was derided. he was mad.e fun o
the united states of america right now does not even recognize taiwanot evens , a na. i view it differently. i am clear that we. will defend taiwan and the only politician in either party that has the couragty.e. wou 28 and then i would resume well, i would resume current position of the united states after we ve achieved semiconductor independence.semi so that s the hard truth, john, is nobody in either party has the courage to actuall. partyy y taiwan to be a nation. i do. and that s why we re going we to defen re god will resume our position of strategic ambiguity, which is the currenat status quo. i will remind you, sean, sotus xithink that that level ofquoemo clarity would make xi jinping a fool to invade taiwan before we have semiconductor independence. and it also helps taiwan increase e own military spending as a percentage of gdp, which pe, silly, low today. and i think that that s the way that i lead with american interests while avoiding world war three, ensuring that we
i worry we are now driving closer into china s arms and the russian china alliance is the single greatest threat that we face. and that s what i really worry about. and i think that there s an actual china and iran, a new axis of evil is formed. s of evilo the question is, want to weaken them and i want to weaken weakenn it it, too. and i d love to see that happen. all right. so what specifice ? u. the issue of you and taiwan, until we have enough microchipn. in 2028, what is your policy ify if china seeks to fulfill their territorial ambitions with taiwan. so i m the only presidential candidate in either partye to s who has had the courage to say that i m not going to embracay es the one-china policy, which is the posture of both political parties today, that i m not going to just adopt strategic ambiguity. we can t afford that. we need to be clear that we will defend taiwan. that s different from strategic ambiguity. now we s different fro have to n until we achieve semiconductor