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When Air Force four-star Gen. Mike Minihan in late January predicted war with China by 2025 and then a Chinese spy balloon began floating over the United States a day later, many woke up for the first time to the threat Beijing poses.
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We are back here on "gps" with susan and richard. richard, you argued in a recent essay, we should make it clear, we will defend taiwan if china attacks. that would end five decades of strategic ambiguity. a lot of people wonder, is that wise, given they are a long way away from the united states, they're very close to china. china will be able to militarily overwhelm them pretty quickly in all likelihood. so two things are very expensive in international relations. threats when they fail, and promises when they succeed. is there a danger here this is a threat that will fail?
And we're back here on "gps" with susan shirk and richard haass. richard, you argued in a recent foreign affairs essay we should make it clear, we will defend taiwan if china attacks. that would end five decades of strategic ambiguity. a lot of people wonder is that wise given they're a long way away from the united states, very close to china, china will be able to militarily overwhelm them pretty quickly in all likelihood. so is it, you know, tom shelling used to say, two things are expensive in international relations, threats when they fail and promises when they succeed. is there a danger...
U.s. be explicit to say, you invade ukraine again, we will send u.s. forces. you invade taiwan, china, we will send u.s. forces. should the u.s. state that out loud explicitly? >> look, i think there is benefit in putting out sometimes in public what your red line is. so with ukraine, for instance, i think there is really benefit in saying, if russia uses nuclear, biological or chemical weapons on ukraine, that will lead to a nato reaction, because that's something that's far broader than just ukraine. that's the kind of thing that spreads around the world, not to mention, by the way, russia's...