question to ask. what we ve got to do is raise the cost, bring in the europeans and our partners and allies in asia and basically be explicit to china, if you are to act coercively against taiwan, here s the economic price you would pay. here s the diplomatic price you would pay. we ve got to put far more military assets in the theater. we ve got to get even closer above all to japan, which is the essential ally if there were to be a crisis. deterrence is always a function, fareed, of capability and perceived will. so we have to increase our capability, increase the economic cost that would accrue to china, and i think we ve also got to signal to china this is serious. and then i think the chinese will have to calculate, is it worth it for them to risk all, the role of the communist party, all they accomplished over the last 70 years to rejuvenate their country?
the cost, bring in the europeans and our partners and allies in asia and basically be explicit to china, if you are to act coercively against taiwan, here s the economic price you would pay. here s the diplomatic price you would pay. we ve got to put far more military assets in the theater. we ve got to get even closer above all to japan, which is the essential ally if there were to be a crisis. deterrence is always a function, fareed, of capability and perceived will. so we have to increase our capability, increase the economic cost that would accrue to china, and i think we ve also got to signal to china this is serious. and then i think the chinese will have to calculate, is it worth it for them to risk all, the rol role of the communist party, all they accomplished over the last 70 years to rejuvenate their country? i don t want to reshape chinese communism.