Kurt Volker: The Impartial Observer in Taiwan

I think the French want to be doing business with China buying and selling. They don't want to be in a confrontational posture toward China. And that's what standing up for Taiwan would do. So I think he deliberately wanted to avoid that and show some independence from the US. How much damage was done? Maybe it's none from the nuclear sub deal that was taken out from under them by the Biden administration as they cut a deal with the Australians. Well, that's the case of the right thing done poorly. We are providing you the Australians now better submarines, quieter nuclear powered submarines at a more reasonable cost for what they're getting. The problem is that we bind side of the