It seems as though a lot of it was actually directed towards China.

Well, absolutely. Cross-Strait relations between Taiwan and China are a pivotal issue in this election.

That was culminated obviously in January with the victory by Lai Ching-te.

But this was a three-horse race for president.

So that kind of watered down the mandate that was won by the former vice president, now president Lai Ching-te. He got just 40% of the vote.

So his mandate was a little bit weakened, and he also his party, the Democratic Progressive Party of the former incumbent, Tsai Ing-wen essentially lost control of the Legislative Yuan.

So domestically, he might have a bit of a bumpy ride going forward as the opposition KMT uses its position in the legislature to kind of potentially undermine the opening days of Lai Ching-te's term.

But the the issue of Cross-Strait is he's not wavering from the DPP, his party's position that Taiwan is essentially, I'm not saying that they're calling for independence, but it's de facto independence.

And that was sort of highlighted by his comments in the speech by saying neither China nor Taiwan are subordinate to each other.

And that is an issue that Beijing would take great exception to because Beijing feels Taiwan is a renegade province.

Now, under Xi Jinping in Beijing, they've obviously said that reunification is a top, top priority and through peaceful means is the most preferred choice.

But if force is necessary, that could come.

So that's why Taiwan, obviously with the chip supply chain semiconductors, but also its position geopolitically between China and the United States, it makes Taiwan a critical, critical cog in the geopolitical tensions that we're seeing right now.