Congressman Adam Smith

I mean, may as well go to the roulette wheel, put it on a number and hope for the best.

But what we need, and let me just say, one final piece of positive news here.

Again, I mentioned David Perdue, his team at the embassy in China, top notch.

As long as we can keep Kushner and Witkoff the hell out of China and let our actual diplomatic team do their goddamn jobs, then I have a little bit of optimism.

Yeah, I mean, it depends on which CEOs you send over there.

Some of our CEOs are sensible people.

Well, look, I mean, they're in the middle of this.

I mean, they're trying to figure out.

It's like you tell us we can't do business with China.

China tells us you can't not do business with China.

And so we're caught in the middle and being jerked all over the place.

What I've always said is I am not a decoupler.

I'm a de-risker.

And that's what I told China.

It's like, look, I understand that you are worried that we're trying to stop your ascent.

And to some degree, we are because we're competing.

I don't think we want to do that.

But on the other hand, it's not unreasonable for us to say that we don't want to be 100% dependent upon you for things that are absolutely critical to us.

So if we want to manufacture some of these in Malaysia or Vietnam or Australia or bring them back home, I mean, China right now is going all scorched earth trying to stop us from being able to generate other sources of things like rare earth minerals and other critical manufacturings.

They got a whole bunch of tools they play to coerce other countries into not letting us do that.