Ambassador Robert Blackwill

Let me pause you there.

So militarily, the gap has dramatically closed.

China's diplomacy

is still outmatched by American diplomacy.

Look who's negotiating the Gaza ceasefire and Ukraine and so forth.

Yeah, but they are gaining ground.

And then of course, economically, they are forging business deals and trade agreements

with India, with Europe, with so forth, while we will coerce you into an agreement in principle

I think you're the expert on domestic politics.

It's not my line of work, but I think it mostly shows the weakness of the Democrat candidate, or at least that- Oh, I don't disagree.

I mean, the last three have been great.

which is condemned by your domestic audiences, and we'll see if they really come to pass.

But back to the fundamental point, which is...

The Trump approach, which is, as I say, I think at the base un-American because it has no values in it, and every president back to Washington had values in their approach to international affairs.

And just a word, the president said in the last week that we'd produced a miraculous new trade agreement with India.

where I spent some years ambassador.

And Modi now is in across the board attacks that that agreement in general does not protect Indian vital national interests.

I don't think JD Vance will say the same thing, for example, that President Trump says and Mr. Miller says about that power and strength is everything in the world.

So we are losing ground and contempt for the third world quite apart from the moral vacuum that is,

I would be very surprised.