Terms of their coercive economic power. i m sure vivek will be asked future questions on this. this is the most likely flash point with china in the next few years. their ambitions are to take taiwan. what i would like to see is candidates to understand the nature of the regime we are dealing with. this is a regime that has contempt for weakness, they back down only when confronted with strength, so if we want to prevent a war with china, we need a stronger commander in chief and more lethal military. biden is in fact older than the people s republic of china, established in 1949, and seems to wish cast a more cooperative ccp that does not exist, even if it ever did. reviving engagement with china. opportunity for candidates like nikki haley, had a good night, a lot of foreign policy experience to articulate that, we need to get in to that part of the debate and we did not do it last night.