Gordon Chang
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524 appearances
9 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 23 May
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They just put a lot of money into Iran's hands, which they can then use to destabilize their neighbors.
So, this is something that President Trump, I think, needs to talk more about.
On your earlier point, by kicking the can down the road, that's absolutely right.
And if anybody ever does an update to Profiles in Courage, which is John F. Kennedy's book, they should add a chapter on President Trump's dealing with Iran, because this was bound to be politically unpopular, and Trump took it on anyway because of the threat that Iran posed to the United States and to our allies and partners.
And he did it.
And that took a lot of courage.
Before the bombing began on February 28th, there was a private Chinese company, I think it's Shanghai-based, Maser Vision, which was providing to the world images of U.S.
military assets in the region along with precise coordinates.
And then, of course, there's that large Chinese intelligence ship just off of Iran's coast.
So you put those two things together and clearly they're supplying targeting data.
We know that China has its own constellation of satellites.
Of course, we don't know what is being beamed down from them, but I imagine it is what the Russians have been accused of doing, and that is providing the Iranians with targeting information.
Remember, they took out our AWACS plane in Saudi Arabia.
They hit it exactly where it would do the most damage, in the back.
And that takes a lot of information that the Iranians themselves don't have.
Treasury Secretary Scott Besant and US Trade Representative Jameson Greer will be meeting one or more vice premiers from China. You know, the Senate actually started saying that this meeting would be talking about talking. Trump a few hours ago said, well, you know, we need something to come out of this meeting.
And of course he tweeted or he put on Truth Social that 80% tariffs seemed about right. That would be down from a general rate of 145. But on some Chinese products, the rate is actually 245 because of the existing tariffs. I don't know where this is going to go. The Chinese are hanging very tough.
We heard a statement from some Chinese premier or something in Russia now for the May 9th Victory Day celebrations with a very tough line on the U.S., So, we'll find out when we find out. And I know that's an unsatisfactory answer, but when we start thinking about the normal trajectory of US-China trade talks, they take forever.
And these will probably take forever unless President Trump makes concessions. So I hope that he doesn't make concessions for the sake of getting a deal. We have had this dynamic too many times in the past. It never, never works out for us. So I hope we don't go into it again.
They were again saying what the United States was wrong and was engaging in bullying tactics. And China would never give in to this. They didn't actually make the specific statement, which is really important, and that is China was saying that the United States would have to withdraw its unilateral tariffs for even talks to begin. So that was a concession.
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