between democracy and authoritarianism we still stand on the side of democracy. >> reporter: and he says safeguard taiwan from china's ongoing intimidation and threats. of course, the big unknown, what will china do? when will they do it? an intelligence briefing that cnn attended in taipei gave us the impression nothing is going to happen right away, not in the coming days at least, at least not in terms of action. we're getting lots of statements from china, they just put out a statement blasting the united states for its response to this election, saying that as they always say, you know, that taiwan's elections are china's internal affairs and external forces should not be interfering with that. but in terms of hardware and, you know, aircraft carrier sailing nearby, fighter jets and stuff, unlikely to happen until potentially intelligence in taiwan believes closer to the inauguration, which is on may 20th, because the weather will be better there on the taiwan strait, then they might try to do something like those post