Andrew Weissmann

I think it's a combination of two things. One is sort of just strategic silence, right? I mean, nobody wants to come out and be the fly in the ointment while the Trump administration is trying to trumpet this deal. And the Trump administration kind of has these people in a little bit of a bind because, you

I think it's a combination of two things. One is sort of just strategic silence, right? I mean, nobody wants to come out and be the fly in the ointment while the Trump administration is trying to trumpet this deal. And the Trump administration kind of has these people in a little bit of a bind because, you

Situation where we were both kind of doing this ad hoc trade embargo with China while also antagonizing the rest of the world on trade was completely antithetical to what these hawks want, which is to sort of isolate China on the world stage, right?

Situation where we were both kind of doing this ad hoc trade embargo with China while also antagonizing the rest of the world on trade was completely antithetical to what these hawks want, which is to sort of isolate China on the world stage, right?

Situation where we were both kind of doing this ad hoc trade embargo with China while also antagonizing the rest of the world on trade was completely antithetical to what these hawks want, which is to sort of isolate China on the world stage, right?

To kind of create this grand coalition of freedom loving peoples who will all trade with one another and none of us will do the kind of business with China that we've done before. Yeah.

To kind of create this grand coalition of freedom loving peoples who will all trade with one another and none of us will do the kind of business with China that we've done before. Yeah.

To kind of create this grand coalition of freedom loving peoples who will all trade with one another and none of us will do the kind of business with China that we've done before. Yeah.

And there was an interesting quote in Semaphore, because you bring up Tom Cotton, I don't know if this was Tom Cotton, but it was plainly a person from that kind of Tom Cotton, China hawk wing, just this morning, where he was basically just complaining anonymously to Semaphore about the way this had all been done in such a clownish manner.

And there was an interesting quote in Semaphore, because you bring up Tom Cotton, I don't know if this was Tom Cotton, but it was plainly a person from that kind of Tom Cotton, China hawk wing, just this morning, where he was basically just complaining anonymously to Semaphore about the way this had all been done in such a clownish manner.

And there was an interesting quote in Semaphore, because you bring up Tom Cotton, I don't know if this was Tom Cotton, but it was plainly a person from that kind of Tom Cotton, China hawk wing, just this morning, where he was basically just complaining anonymously to Semaphore about the way this had all been done in such a clownish manner.

So as to not successfully isolate China and not successfully be able to put any pressure on them to decouple from the whole world because of the reasons that I just mentioned. And so I think that I think that it's difficult for them because, again, they don't really want to cut the administration loose or bring down the wrath of God on themselves.

So as to not successfully isolate China and not successfully be able to put any pressure on them to decouple from the whole world because of the reasons that I just mentioned. And so I think that I think that it's difficult for them because, again, they don't really want to cut the administration loose or bring down the wrath of God on themselves.

So as to not successfully isolate China and not successfully be able to put any pressure on them to decouple from the whole world because of the reasons that I just mentioned. And so I think that I think that it's difficult for them because, again, they don't really want to cut the administration loose or bring down the wrath of God on themselves.

But at no point were the real China hawks really pleased with either the former tariffs or this kind of back off of them now.

But at no point were the real China hawks really pleased with either the former tariffs or this kind of back off of them now.

But at no point were the real China hawks really pleased with either the former tariffs or this kind of back off of them now.

Yeah, you wouldn't necessarily have to even put them in the shadow. A lot of them look very similar to one another. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, you wouldn't necessarily have to even put them in the shadow. A lot of them look very similar to one another. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, you wouldn't necessarily have to even put them in the shadow. A lot of them look very similar to one another. Oh, yeah.