espionage throughout the united states, by rapidly building up their military to counteract ours in the pacific, our choice is not whether we seek it. our choice is whether we win it and right now i don t think joe biden is up to the task. bret: is china beating us on the technology military front right now? i would say they are rapidly closing the gap, bret. in some areas they may, in fact, reached parody. and security competition between nations is not like 100-meter dash. it s not enough to win just by a nose. because you elm boltedden aggressors like china to take a shot at the title. you want our military to be so strong, you want our intentions to preserve our national interest and international ability to be so clear that aggressive ares like the chinese communist party would never even consider taking a shot at the title. bret: people in taiwan watching this all very closely and the president was asked specifically about taiwan, take a listen. i don t want a cold war wi