I think there's a balance for both. There is room for diplomacy and making sure there are channels for communication and building as much trust as possible. Certainly, Japan and the Philippines and others, being much closer to China, have spent decades developing those mechanisms. Sometimes, there's also an important role for democratically elected leaders to speak honestly in their own parliaments with their own populations. Both have to happen. Sometimes that creates friction, and we have to manage that.
There is a line between making performative statements that arguably can be seen as escalatory—for instance, high-profile individuals visiting Taiwan—and making statements within your own parliament or to your own population that are simply factual. They should not be seen in the same way. There is a balance between megaphone diplomacy and trust-building.