it brings up 9-11. So to bring it back to how we got here, the Bush administration, the second Bush administration, Bush W, the son, came into office with an intention to focus on China. And like is often the case, intentions are assaulted by reality. You get punched in the face, your game plan goes out, you change. How important was 9-11 in determining where we are today? And how do you think American foreign policy would have been different and the challenges that we would face today would be different had that not occurred? Yeah, the counterfactual is always really hard, right? We don't know what path history would have taken, but we do have some indications. And people have forgotten this, but just as President Bush, the junior, came into office, we had an enormous confrontation with China, right? They shot down effectively, well, it didn't shoot down, but basically forced down one of our spy planes in international waters that landed in Hainan Island in China, where they basically (23/57)
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