sovereign taiwan, that we take it for granted that will be the case in the future. in reality, the chinese have always held the mainland chinese, people s republic of china, held that they will eventually reunify. it really wasn t within their military pow doerpower to do th until now. we have significant military capability in the pacific, but they have reached the point where there is a question mark there. and that question mark is around whether we are willing to pay the price to do the defense of taiwan. if they can do two things, create in the mind of people a certain idea of inevitability that china will reunify and they can convince us that the price would be too high that something we re unwilling to pay, suddenly it becomes very realistic and very dangerous in the near term, particularly for miscalculation. there is only so much wisdom you can impart in your interview. your book is about leadership