China's Maritime Exercise In Taiwan

Well, yeah, exactly. And these are all the questions, you know, what is the purpose if there is a ceasefire? What is the purpose of deploying this multinational force? Is it to, I mean, I think what a lot of people might well have missed. is that China's just conducted the largest maritime invasion-like exercise that we've ever heard of, and it happened last week. It never got reported anywhere. There's a lot of things happening globally, and I've just come back from the Yushan conference forum, Indo-Pacific forum in Taiwan. Previous to that, I was at the Yalta European Security Conference. Everyone's talking now about what's happening outside of Ukraine and the opportunity... And what the consequences of Trump's attacks into Iran have been, everyone's ignoring what China's doing. Now, if China's running a massive exercise like that, it really is aimed at Taiwan. What does that mean in terms of the United States strategic deployments? What does that mean in terms of Indo-Pacific nations? And are they looking to New Zealand just to plug a little hole off to one side as part of a multinational force to, because, you know, all it was important to trade home was when I was there in 85 through to 1990, we had this exact same problem. The difference is we kept it open because we were supplying arms to Saddam Hussein. And we were pulling the bodies out of the water and the sailors off the ships and helping disabled ships and their crew back then. The thing is, we kept it open. This time, it's a different ballgame and clearly people didn't think about that when they attacked Iran.