Jon Finer

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The MeidasTouch Podcast · Furious World Leaders Freeze Trump Out of New Alliances · 11 Jan 2026 podcast

China has agreed for a year to license, to sell to the United States and other countries the rare earths that are one of the foundational building blocks of our advanced technology economy, but for a year, and then we'll see.

But the Trump administration's approach to avoiding a conflict with China seems to be

Tell our allies, don't be too provocative.

Taiwan, don't be too provocative.

Japan, as you said, don't be too provocative.

And China, let's negotiate.

Let's talk.

And I think one thing to look for over the course of the rest of this year is there are going to be several consequential meetings between President Trump and Xi Jinping.

There'll be one in the United States.

There'll be one in Beijing.

There'll be a couple others at big multilateral events.

And at every one of these gatherings, the Trump administration seems to want to put new things on the table for China.

just to keep the relationship in a relatively calm and stable, low temperature place.

And these concessions do not seem to be getting enough benefit for us, for the American people.

And I think those of us who watch Asia closely are worried about that.

So it's a really good insight.

And I think this is actually a tactic that they have honed that they believe works for them in spite of the criticism that you just described, which I fully agree with.

And the tactic is basically make an announcement, grab a near term headline or Chiron on cable,

claim a big victory of some kind.

And then if and as that unravels over time or doesn't quite pan out exactly the way the president or the administration has described, people's attention has by that point sort of moved on.

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