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‘Three Beers and a Pipe Wrench’

Taiwan’s president Tsai Ing-wen and U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy hold a news conference following a meeting at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif., April 5, 2023. (David Swanson/Reuters)

On this week’s episode of The Charles C. W. Cooke Podcast — the first since I got a haircut — I talked to Elbridge Colby about Taiwan. Among the topics we discussed are why Taiwan matters more to the United States and the West more generally than, say, the Falkland Islands; whether Americans are prepared for an invasion of Taiwan; if China is our biggest geopolitical threat; and, if it is, what this tells us about our ideal Ukraine policy.

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