Brandon Weichert: "The US should stay away from any conflict in Taiwan with China. It may not even be militarily winnable. "I don't want to attack China. I've always talked about defensive measures in our part of the world and then cooperation where we can with China. I wrote in the National Interest years ago that the first chain of islands we should stay away from, because it cannot be won militarily. I don't even know if all the Taiwanese people are really anti-China as we have been led to believe. In the results of the mid-term elections, I received a message from one of our regulars in China who is a big investor in Shanghai and he sent me an email saying that the Chinese have a two-year window to insulate themselves further from any potential tariffs that the next American president might want to impose on them and I think the way the Chinese see it is smart, they see it as the American systems are going to be at least closed for the next two years. Nothing will be done. Everything that happens in terms of foreign policy will be aimed at the Middle East and Europe. This is another window of opportunity for the Chinese to strengthen their additional defenses and trade, and then come, you know, to the new two years from today, to come at it from a position of even greater strength. Watch the full interview.

Brandon Weichert: "The US should stay away from any conflict in Taiwan with China. It may not even be militarily winnable. "I don't want to attack China. I've always talked about defensive measures in our part of the world and then cooperation where we can with China. I wrote in the National Interest years ago that the first chain of islands we should stay away from, because it cannot be won militarily. I don't even know if all the Taiwanese people are really anti-China as we have been led to believe. In the results of the mid-term elections, I received a message from one of our regulars in China who is a big investor in Shanghai and he sent me an email saying that the Chinese have a two-year window to insulate themselves further from any potential tariffs that the next American president might want to impose on them and I think the way the Chinese see it is smart, they see it as the American systems are going to be at least closed for the next two years. Nothing will be done. Everything that happens in terms of foreign policy will be aimed at the Middle East and Europe. This is another window of opportunity for the Chinese to strengthen their additional defenses and trade, and then come, you know, to the new two years from today, to come at it from a position of even greater strength. Watch the full interview.