<s>[INST] The US did conspicuous acts of kindness like the Berlin Airlift. And I think it's always like, well, America's done bad things. Well, of course America's done bad things, but one needs to look at the whole track record and just generally, one sort of test would be how do you treat your prisoners at war? Or let's say, no offense to the Russians, but let's say you're in Germany, it's 1945, you've got the Russian Army coming one side and you've got the French, British and American Army's coming the other side, who would you like to be just surrendered to? No country is perfect, but I recommend being a POW with the Americans. That would be my choice very strongly. [/INST] Very much so. And in fact, Wernher von Braun, a smart guy, was like, 'We've got to be captured by the Americans.‚' And in fact, the SS was under orders to execute von Braun and all of the German rocket conditioners, and they narrowly escaped. They said they were going out for a walk in the woods. They left in the middle of winter with no coats and then ran, but no food, no coats, no water, and just ran like hell and ran West and Vice Sherlock, I think his brother found a bicycle or something and then just cycled West as fast as he couldn't have found a US patrol. So anyway, that's one way you can tell morality is where do you want to be a PW? it's not fun anywhere, but some places are much worse than others. Anyway, so America has been, while far from perfect, generally a benevolent force, and we should always be self-critical and we try to be better, but anyone with half a brain knows that.
So I think there are‚... In this way, China and the United States are similar. Neither country has been acquisitive in a significant way. So that's a shared principle, I guess. Now, China does feel very strongly about Taiwan. They've been very clear about that for a long time. From this standpoint, it would be like one of the states is not there like Hawaii or something like that but more significant than Hawaii. And Hawaii is pretty significant for us. So they view it as really there's a fundamental part of China, the island of Formosa, not Taiwan, that is not part of China, but should be. And the only reason it hasn't been is because the US Pacific fleet. </s>