J.D. Vance
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And it makes the whole situation much more absurd.
Like, he can pick up the phone and call Putin.
He can pick up the phone and call Xi.
Even countries that we have very hostile relations with, he can pick up the phone, you know, North Korea.
He met the guy at the 38th parallel.
It is bizarre that we can't just talk to the actual leadership of a country.
It's really...
It makes diplomacy very, very difficult.
Nobody wants this.
No, it's not.
The president's view is we don't want to create an unnecessarily antagonistic relationship with China.
There are certainly some disagreements.
There are some things where our interests collide.
But
we can protect our intellectual property in the president's view without creating an unnecessary conflict with the Chinese.
What the president is trying to do is I think create the situation where we can have good relations.
Now we're not radically, this has been misreported I think, we're not like radically increasing
the number of visas that we give to China.
That's just not true.
I've seen that reported.