Brad Thayer

Well, Steve, because the Chinese Communist Party is in desperate straits.

Economically, as we saw this week and last week, the economy is in freefall.

They're in dire straits in that respect, and they're desperate for President Trump to save the Chinese Communist Party.

Xi Jinping is going full Stalin on the military.

He's purging

The military, you saw his address to the People's Armed Police and the PLA today at the meeting of the delegation from those two bodies where he said there's no room for anybody who's disloyal to the party.

So the CCP is in dire straits, and they need President Trump to come in and say, no changes to tariffs or tariff relief, no changes to investment, right?

Despite what the Trump administration has stressed, there's still investment.

in communist China, and no changes to the students.

They still need to get the intellectual capital and knowledge from the United States through legal and illegal means.

So the CCP needs President Trump.

President Trump doesn't need the CCP.

That's an important point to keep in mind.

They're in dire straits.

They need help, and President Trump can provide that for them.

So we need to keep that in mind.

Well, let's not.

Maybe.

Right.

I think we want to be careful about striking Taiwan.