Brett McGurk: ‘We’re in a World of Authoritarian States Kind of Pushing the Edge’

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MCGURK: "Elevated. I mean, we of course, we had to deal with this in the Biden Administration, in the Ukraine war, when we really spiked and we had talked to the Saudis and others to get a handle on it. But this is the world we’re in. I think we’re in a world of of authoritarian states kind of pushing the edge. That was Russia and Ukraine, everything the Iranians have been doing for decades. And then watch the big the big one is China and Taiwan. And I don’t think that Xi Jinping is going to launch an invasion of Taiwan, but he’s he’s seeing what’s happening in the straits of hormuz. And you can just tighten up the Taiwan strait, do some things slowly"