carolina i sold south carolina to every one. i will sell to japan, south korea, israel. you mentioned taiwan earlier about ukraine and russia, and it s one of the biggest flash points in the u.s./china relationship. president biden repeatedly said u.s. forces would defend taiwan if china invades. would you make that same commitment? he s looking at this the wrong way. it s about preventing war. what would prevent china from go into taiwan in the first place. there are two things china and russia never wanted us to have. they never wanted us to have a strong military and never wanted us to be energy independent. we need to do both things. strong militaries don t start wars, they prevent wars. that s the first thing we have to know. the second thing is hold on,
what did they do, russia invaded their freedoms and they went in there and moved to the front lines and defended the country, and everybody tkpwgave them fiv days to survive, and their passion and will pushed them forward. what we have to understand is a win for ukraine is a win for all of us, because tyrants tell us exactly what they are going to do. what we heard, china said they were going to take hong kong and they did it. russia said nortthey were going invade ukraine, and china says taiwan is next, and we better believe them. and the baltics are next and if that happens, we re in a world war. the way you prevent war is not that we give cash to ukraine and not that we put troops on the ground but that we get with our allies and make sure that we give them the equipment and ammunition to win, because when ukraine wins, that sends a message to china with taiwan,
i am getting there. the second thing is we need to supply the taiwanese military and so i hosted the taiwanese ambassador several months ago and brought her to the south carolina national guard so she could see what they need to be doing in taiwan to defend themselves. make sure you lift them up so they can do for themselves like the ukrainians are doing for themselves. when china sees taiwan has the backing of their allies and when china sees ukraine just beat russia, they won t move into taiwan. one of the things about the united states vis-a-vis taiwan, there used to be strategic ambiguity, where the u.s. president would not say directly one way or the other, would u.s. forces say they would defend taiwan. president biden broke with that,
the women said we re not going to stay back. they made molotov cocktails to defend their country. everybody gave them five days to survive. but yet their passion and their will pushed them forward. what we have to understand is a win for ukraine is a win for all of us. because tyrants tell us exactly what they re going to do. what we heard, china said they were going to take hong kong. they did it. russia said they were going to invade ukraine, we watched that happen. china says taiwan s next. we d better believe them. russia said poland and the baltics are next. if that happens we re looking at a world war. this is about preventing war. and so the way you prevent wars, not that we give cash to ukraine, not that we put troops on the ground, but that we get with our allies and we make sure we give them the equipment and the ammunition to win because when ukraine wins that sends a message to china with taiwan. it sends a message to iran that wants to build a bomb. it sends a message to n
we can sell it to other countries. so you mentioned taiwan earlier about ukraine and russia being russia invading ukraine could embolden china to invade taiwan. that s one of the biggest flashpoints as you know in the u.s.-china relationship. and president biden has repeatedly said that u.s. forces would defend taiwan if china invades. would you make that same commitment? well, i think he s looking at this the wrong way. it s about preventing war. so what will prevent china from even going into taiwan in the first place? there are two things that china and russia never wanted us to have. they never wanted us to have a strong military and they never wanted us to be energy independent. we need to do both of those things. strong militaries don t start or strong militaries prevent wars. that s the first thing we have to know. [ applause ] so the second thing is hold on. i m getting there. the second thing is we should be supplying the taiwanese military what they need to do