2/4 Elbridge Colby, Jerry Hendrix, Edward"Sonny"Masso. #UNBOUND: China, Taiwan. The complete, forty-minute interview. October 13, 2021. @Batchelorshow @ElbridgeColby @JerryHendrixII - a podcast by John Batchelor

Photo:  Chapter one, astronomy, geography, calendar, people; chapter two, people, bodies, palaces, utensils; chapter three, utensils, clothes, sound and color, classics; chapter four, documents from the Hui State, documents translated from foreign countries, documents from the Gaochang State, documents from Myanmar (Burma), documents from eight hundred states, documents from the Tartar State, documents from India.

Hong Kong — President Joe Biden said on Thursday that the United States would defend Taiwan if China ever attacked the democratically governed island. The White House quickly walked back his remark as analysts tried to discern whether Mr. Biden might have been signalling a change in Washington's long-held policy of "strategic ambiguity" over the role the U.S. would play in the event of a military conflict between China and Taiwan. 

Colby @ElbridgeColby , The Marathon Initiative.