fact, this is not a hypothetical. I've had those conversations with senior leaders in Japan and other places where they have told me that regardless of how if China takes Taiwan, whether it's because we don't fight for it, or we fight for it and lose, that will change everything for them. They're not going to tear up our mutual defense treaty or, you know, trade relations with us. But they basically told me, we're going to act as if we now have a new sheriff in our neighborhood, and we're going to have to figure out a way to live with them and accommodate them in a lot greater ways than we do today. And that will have dramatic ramifications for the United States, because if China is setting the rules of global trade, of global security order, particularly in that region, it will decrease our power economically and our national security. No, the analogy of the Caucasus and Central Asia is a good one. Another analogy you draw on the book is Berlin, Berlin and Taiwan. Tell me a little bit (49/57)
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