Jamieson Greer

It can barely address issues on its current agenda.

I will tell you that we have called for reform.

The Trump administration has put in many proposals, concrete proposals about reform, about how to graduate countries to take on more obligations as they become more developed.

We've talked about making sure that countries can adjust their tariff schedules to account for national core interests.

And we put forward a reform plan together with a bunch of trading partners at a recent meeting in Cameroon, and there was near consensus on this.

Countries like Brazil and Turkey eventually opposed the closing package, which is unfortunate, but it's also kind of exhibit A of how the WTO is unable to address these core challenges.

well, listen, this is a decision for China, and I'll obviously let the president and Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense decide how they're going to align with other countries in reacting to the Strait of Hormuz closing.

Again, it affects these other countries much more than it affects us.

Other countries have been working with Iran to figure out arrangements to get out oil, gas, fertilizer, and all these other things.

But it is clearly in the interest of the world community to make sure, not only to make sure that the Strait is open, but to make sure that Iran doesn't get a nuclear weapon, Iran doesn't empower its terror proxies in the region.

The world would be much safer if the world was aligned on taking care of the Iran issue.

In past meetings between the presidents, they've always talked about conflicts and hot spots.

In the past, they've talked about Ukraine and Russia.

They've talked about Iran.

I assume that they'll talk about these things again.

With respect to your question, is there going to be a delay in the meeting, I haven't heard talk about that, neither internally.

I didn't hear that from my Chinese counterpart when I talked to him last week.

I don't think so.

When you look back to the Busan agreements, the agreements we achieved with the Chinese last year, we were seeking stability.

We were seeking to achieve a level of tariff application on one side and a flow of rare earth minerals and things from the other side.