It's not because they produce chips around the world that we depend for our economy, other economies. It is because if we abandon Taiwan, the world will abandon us. America's asymmetric advantage in the world is that we have allies. China has customers and clients. We have allies that will go to war with us. When this President even discusses military action against our NATO allies, we are making China stronger. (07:06–07:12)
CLAIM
Asserts that the U.S.'s strategic advantage is its network of allies.
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