How Worried Should We Be About Taiwan?: Secretary Of State Antony Blinken Weighs In

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During the Aspen Security Forum on Friday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken answered reporter questions on Taiwan security.

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00:00China has signaled pretty aggressively it hates Taiwan's new president. This

00:06spring they mounted bigger-than-ever military drills simulating a blockade.

00:10How worried, just quick update in this moment, how worried should we be? How

00:14worried are you about developments in the Taiwan Strait? Well this too is

00:17something of course that we're tracking all the time, not just the the Taiwan

00:20Strait, South China Sea. We've seen second Thomas Scholl with the Philippines as

00:24well come up again in the in the news. Look I think this goes back to the point

00:31I was making about convergence a little earlier. One of the things that we've

00:35done is in in sort of building bridges between Europe and Asia and thinking

00:41about the big challenges that we face is raise the recognition far away from the

00:46Taiwan Strait that if there were to be a crisis over Taiwan it would be a crisis

00:52that affects quite literally everyone in the world, not just the immediate

00:56neighbors. 50% of commercial cargo traffic goes through the Straits every

01:01day. 70% of the semiconductors that the world relies on manufactured in Taiwan.

01:06So we've now seen over the last year, year and a half, a chorus of countries

01:12from far afield really impressing about China the imperative of not having a

01:17crisis, not stirring the pot, not disturbing the status quo, preserving

01:21peace and stability. The more you have that collective weight on China I think

01:26the more they're likely to not lead us in that direction.

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