Katty Kay

It's possible that they bring the Chinese on board.

It's also possible that the Chinese are sitting back because they still have some reserves at the moment.

They've been able to weather this better than some people thought they would at the beginning.

They have reserves for longer.

Do the Chinese get involved in the way that the president does?

If the Chinese do get involved in the long term, is that actually great for America anyway?

I think you're right about Suez.

This is not Suez.

The difference with Suez is that the British Empire was basically replaced by the American Empire.

It was the Americans saying, don't do this because we're the new kid in town.

The Chinese have not yet come along and said, okay, leave this one to us.

This is over the American century.

We've got this now.

You've proven yourselves to be unreliable allies, unreliable trading partners, unreliable when it comes to stability, so we're going to take your position.

I'm not hearing that from the Chinese yet.

So Donald Trump is in this position that he doesn't want to be in and his approval ratings poll after poll.

And yeah, you always have to be careful of one approval rating, but there is not an approval rating out there at the moment that shows that his approval rating is getting any better.

This is a difficult time for him, except maybe he doesn't care because actually he's not going to be on the ticket.

His name is not on the ballot.

Yeah, we've said that.