English transcript

Well, I think China's preference is probably to have Taiwan willingly, voluntarily join

them.

In a perfect world, what they would want is some vote or a referendum in Taiwan that agrees

to fold in.

I think that's what they would prefer.

Ultimately, it's featured prominently in President Xi's mandate in the time he's been in office.

He's made clear that what they call reunification, that's what they call it, is something that

has to happen at some point.

We think it would be a terrible mistake to force that through force or anything of that

nature.

There would be repercussions for that, globally, not just from the United States, and we kind

of leave it there.

That sort of ambiguity is what I think has defined the way we characterize this issue.

And the reason being strategic ambiguity is we don't want to see conflict.

We don't want to see something disruptive happen because I think it would be very disruptive

for the world and for both countries.