David E. Sanger
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first heard Dec 2024
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Yeah, they do keep moving.
And I've covered Iranian negotiations, mostly on the nuclear program, for 20 years, and they are masters of dragging this out.
The deal with President Obama, whether you liked it or hated it, took two years to negotiate.
And I think the Iranians are looking at President Trump and saying, look, this is all part of a 47 year long conflict with the United States.
If we can wait Donald Trump out for two and a half years here, we're on to the next president.
And all we need to do is be able to hold on to enough of our nuclear capability in that interim that we can then figure out what to do with it next.
Hey guys, can you hear me?
Good, good, good.
I'm in my hotel in Beijing.
I just arrived with several of my Washington Bureau colleagues, and we are all preparing for the president arriving for his first trip to China in the second term.
He'll get in on Wednesday night and meet Xi Jinping the next morning and part of Friday before he just turns around and goes right back home.
Well, as initially conceived, Rachel, this was going to be the first of a series of meetings this year in an effort by the president to have something of a rapprochement with the Chinese after many, many years of tension.
The last time the president was here was 2017, and it was a very different situation.
The president was treated with all the pageantry that the Chinese do very well.
He had just been elected president to the surprise of China and the world and perhaps himself.
how China correlated with his economic policies and his defense policies.
And was going to focus on China's rise as a major power.
But this time he arrives under the cloud of the Iran conflict.
You'll remember he was supposed to come here in April and put it off and did so, I think, fairly convinced that by mid-May, Iran would have already capitulated.
And now instead, he shows up with Iran resisting, with
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