Was a little surprised to realize i was the highest ranking american official ever to visit taiwan. we did so as part of a trip the chinese communist had invited us to shanghai and beijing i went with a bipartisan delegation, one of the points i would make to nancy pelosi is very important, make a bipartisan delegation. we had 11 members, including john dingle, a senior democrat at that time. and we said to them, just before the trip started, by the way, we're going to go to taiwan. they were furious. they did everything they're doing right now. they threatened, they bullied, they bluffed. and...