Frank Gaffney

I don't want him to, but those options were probably there if he'd have... Maybe used a little bit of conversation and sugar at the beginning of this administration and after these announcements. But at every turn, Xi Jinping has chosen escalation and confrontation and still is. So, I don't think they blinked yet. I do think they're under pressure. They just have a different kind of system.

And so, they have... warehouses that are getting too full and stuff not moving, ports that are getting empty. They're going to feel this, and they're going to feel it worse than we do.

And so, they have... warehouses that are getting too full and stuff not moving, ports that are getting empty. They're going to feel this, and they're going to feel it worse than we do.

And so, they have... warehouses that are getting too full and stuff not moving, ports that are getting empty. They're going to feel this, and they're going to feel it worse than we do.

The question is the tolerance within China for eating bitterness, as they say in Chinese, versus Americans, who might start seeing some pressure at the pump and change in supplies, and small businesses might get squeezed.

The question is the tolerance within China for eating bitterness, as they say in Chinese, versus Americans, who might start seeing some pressure at the pump and change in supplies, and small businesses might get squeezed.

The question is the tolerance within China for eating bitterness, as they say in Chinese, versus Americans, who might start seeing some pressure at the pump and change in supplies, and small businesses might get squeezed.

Well, it's a fair test because there haven't been very many examples of Western leaders or counterparts to China that have been aggressive. For most of the last half century, the West has been pretty generous and accommodating, allowing China to skate under the radar as a developing economy, even though they're top tier on technology and eating our lunch. several different ways.

Well, it's a fair test because there haven't been very many examples of Western leaders or counterparts to China that have been aggressive. For most of the last half century, the West has been pretty generous and accommodating, allowing China to skate under the radar as a developing economy, even though they're top tier on technology and eating our lunch. several different ways.

Well, it's a fair test because there haven't been very many examples of Western leaders or counterparts to China that have been aggressive. For most of the last half century, the West has been pretty generous and accommodating, allowing China to skate under the radar as a developing economy, even though they're top tier on technology and eating our lunch. several different ways.

So it's a fair proposition to wonder. The main counter argument to the thesis is that there was a first Trump term. It wasn't like this in terms of the rakes of tariffs going up and other kinds of pressure. But at the same time, China hadn't been pressing quite the same in the first term either. Now, at the end of it, they did give us the gift of COVID.

So it's a fair proposition to wonder. The main counter argument to the thesis is that there was a first Trump term. It wasn't like this in terms of the rakes of tariffs going up and other kinds of pressure. But at the same time, China hadn't been pressing quite the same in the first term either. Now, at the end of it, they did give us the gift of COVID.

So it's a fair proposition to wonder. The main counter argument to the thesis is that there was a first Trump term. It wasn't like this in terms of the rakes of tariffs going up and other kinds of pressure. But at the same time, China hadn't been pressing quite the same in the first term either. Now, at the end of it, they did give us the gift of COVID.

and lied about it and there were consequences of that. But I think we're dealing with a more aggressive China now than even during Trump's first term. So to me, the dominant variable is Xi.

and lied about it and there were consequences of that. But I think we're dealing with a more aggressive China now than even during Trump's first term. So to me, the dominant variable is Xi.

and lied about it and there were consequences of that. But I think we're dealing with a more aggressive China now than even during Trump's first term. So to me, the dominant variable is Xi.

Trump definitely turned the temperature up and there aren't really any rules about how do you sort of reset the world in a post-globalization era where the World Trade Organization ain't working and you can't fix it.

Trump definitely turned the temperature up and there aren't really any rules about how do you sort of reset the world in a post-globalization era where the World Trade Organization ain't working and you can't fix it.

Trump definitely turned the temperature up and there aren't really any rules about how do you sort of reset the world in a post-globalization era where the World Trade Organization ain't working and you can't fix it.

uh yeah they've been eating our lunch from a technology perspective uh because they've been stealing everything yeah um subsidies yeah all kinds of stuff that you know the the past form of negotiation wasn't going to solve uh and it was getting to a point where i think it really was critical we had to change what we're doing.