Best Of Buck Brief - Here's How a China-Taiwan Invasion Ignites Global Chaos

So, is China going to invade Taiwan? This is obviously something that I'm spending a lot of time thinking about right now because I just got back from a week in Taiwan.

I interviewed the president, uh, President Lai, and that now has been picked up by the international media.

So, a lot of, uh, eyeballs on this issue, which was one of the main reasons, of course, I wanted to go.

Uh, but I sat down with the vice president of Taiwan, the National Security Council, National Security Advisor.

I went to ...

I'm gonna answer the question, "Is China gonna invade?" But first, uh, I went to a military base to see their HIMARS artillery system, really more like a rocket system, but they call it an artillery system.

Uh, I saw a drone manufacturing facility.

Of course, drones, very important in military applications and all kinds of, uh, defense.

Uh, y- ... uh, of the future, quite honestly, it's gonna be tech and AI related.

I saw a boat manufacturing facility that, on the one hand, makes traditional, well, all kinds of boats, but traditional Navy boats, Coast Guard vessels, um, but n- not very big ones, I think less than 100 feet only.

But they are making speedboats that have an explosive payload that are autonomous, that are dr- drone speedboats with a big boom in them, uh, or that will go boom.

That was really interesting.

Went to TSMC, which is the chip manufacturer that plays a huge role, not just in the global economy and artificial intelligence, but, but plays a very substantial role in the whole national security situation.

So, I got a very good overview, and thank you to my friend Steven Yates, my buddy now of almost 15 years, who set all of this up.

He's at The Heritage Foundation, uh, he was my guru, my sherpa, uh, through all of this.

And, um, my two brothers, Mason and Keats, came.

They ...

I just wanted them to be there and see Taiwan and, uh, and to be able to soak up as much of this information as they could and, you know, they're very involved in their own ways in, uh, well, let's just say commerce and politics, uh, and how Taiwan plays into all that.

So, is China going to invade? I think the answer, unfortunately, is yes.

Um, so then the next question is when? Uh, now, there ...

I can tell you this, I have spoken to a whole range of experts on what's going to happen here, and they disagree about basically everything, uh, in terms of when this is gonna ha- ... is the invasion gonna happen? Different experts, and I'm talking about people in the DOD, uh, here in the States, I'm talking about people in the national security, uh, apparatus in Taiwan, and, uh, outside experts.

I get different answers from everybody on this stuff because nobody can predict the future, and there's a lot of variables here.

Uh, for anyone who's wondering, by the way, uh, before I dive into some of this, this back and forth on Taiwan, uh, something that I think's important.

Uh, if you're saying, "Oh, I don't care," or, "Why does this affect me?" If China ...

if we wake up and Taiwan, Taipei, the capital, is being pummeled by Chinese missiles, uh, to soften up their defenses in advance of a blockade of the island, so ships preventing other ships from getting to the area, and an amphibious invasion, uh, with massive Chinese, uh, forces deployed, the stock market is going to crash like you've never seen.

So, is China going to invade Taiwan? This is obviously something that I'm spending a lot of time thinking about right now because I just got back from a week in Taiwan.

I interviewed the president, uh, President Lai, and that now has been picked up by the international media.

So, a lot of, uh, eyeballs on this issue, which was one of the main reasons, of course, I wanted to go.

Uh, but I sat down with the vice president of Taiwan, the National Security Council, National Security Advisor.

I went to ...

I'm gonna answer the question, "Is China gonna invade?" But first, uh, I went to a military base to see their HIMARS artillery system, really more like a rocket system, but they call it an artillery system.

Uh, I saw a drone manufacturing facility.

Of course, drones, very important in military applications and all kinds of, uh, defense.

Uh, y- ... uh, of the future, quite honestly, it's gonna be tech and AI related.

I saw a boat manufacturing facility that, on the one hand, makes traditional, well, all kinds of boats, but traditional Navy boats, Coast Guard vessels, um, but n- not very big ones, I think less than 100 feet only.

But they are making speedboats that have an explosive payload that are autonomous, that are dr- drone speedboats with a big boom in them, uh, or that will go boom.

That was really interesting.

Went to TSMC, which is the chip manufacturer that plays a huge role, not just in the global economy and artificial intelligence, but, but plays a very substantial role in the whole national security situation.

So, I got a very good overview, and thank you to my friend Steven Yates, my buddy now of almost 15 years, who set all of this up.

He's at The Heritage Foundation, uh, he was my guru, my sherpa, uh, through all of this.

And, um, my two brothers, Mason and Keats, came.

They ...

I just wanted them to be there and see Taiwan and, uh, and to be able to soak up as much of this information as they could and, you know, they're very involved in their own ways in, uh, well, let's just say commerce and politics, uh, and how Taiwan plays into all that.

So, is China going to invade? I think the answer, unfortunately, is yes.

Um, so then the next question is when? Uh, now, there ...

I can tell you this, I have spoken to a whole range of experts on what's going to happen here, and they disagree about basically everything, uh, in terms of when this is gonna ha- ... is the invasion gonna happen? Different experts, and I'm talking about people in the DOD, uh, here in the States, I'm talking about people in the national security, uh, apparatus in Taiwan, and, uh, outside experts.

I get different answers from everybody on this stuff because nobody can predict the future, and there's a lot of variables here.

Uh, for anyone who's wondering, by the way, uh, before I dive into some of this, this back and forth on Taiwan, uh, something that I think's important.

Uh, if you're saying, "Oh, I don't care," or, "Why does this affect me?" If China ...

if we wake up and Taiwan, Taipei, the capital, is being pummeled by Chinese missiles, uh, to soften up their defenses in advance of a blockade of the island, so ships preventing other ships from getting to the area, and an amphibious invasion, uh, with massive Chinese, uh, forces deployed, the stock market is going to crash like you've never seen.