well, a couple of minutes ago, marta oliarnyk and i talked with taiwanese journalist yinghwa, so live, and we talked about the general atmosphere in taiwan, and generally talked about prospects. escalation scenario, well, we wanted to ask you about the current constellation of what is called the readiness of the people's republic of china to use force against taiwan, and to what extent the world community will be ready to try to defend this not just a small island, well, but a certain example of what is called an asian democracy, westernized, with appropriate technologies, and here the question is not only, so to speak... about chinese ambitions, but also about the willingness of the west not to allow one or another state to cross red lines by force. and i want. so that we all understand that taiwan for the west is an appropriate, you know, ah, caveat to the chinese global dominance that beijing is striving for and doing everything to make this global economic expansion happen. china threatens taiwan. by the use of military force, china is doing everything to sow fear and uncertainty