they're very close to the idea that they can peacefully unify. But certainly all their military preparations are with the assumption that, you know, they'll have to at some point use the military and that the US will get itself involved. And so if that is the case, then one key vulnerability in terms of them achieving the more pressing and they would argue internal issues that Taiwan is, is this dependence on the dollar. But actually the first is also important because fundamentally, China does want to return to its previous greatness and being at the center of the world and the most important economy. And for no one to be able to challenge its way of being or its ideology, it doesn't necessarily want to replicate the US model, if you'd like, or imperialistic Britain's model of controlling and being the world's policeman. It sort of looked at the 800 bases, military bases around the world and decides it was too costly and wants to do this with technology. Most likely it will find out (12/40)
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