Melissa Chen

So he broke what was bipartisan elite consensus at the time, which was engagement with China is good.

If they become rich, they will become more like us and they would liberalize and they would join the world order as responsible.

Okay, none of that happened.

But Trump has been consistent on noticing that China was responsible for disrupting the global trading system, of deindustrializing, of shipping American jobs overseas.

And he's been talking about that, about the large trade imbalances.

Prior to Donald Trump, no one's really broken out of that paradigm.

So I think with Trump on China, always watch, especially now that he's in power, always watch what he does, not what he says.

Not just AI guys.

He's bringing... Our biggest business.

The top CEOs, including Boeing.

We should also say he's actually bringing... I kind of love the fact that Marco Rubio is there on the plane with him and he was dressed in the tracksuit.

But the best part about Rubio is actually that Rubio is sanctioned by the Chinese.

So in 2020, Rubio was on the right side of the Hong Kong issue.

He supported the Hong Kongers.

He's been consistently one of the most critical of the Chinese Communist Party.

And along with Ted Cruz, he was sanctioned.

So he's not allowed to go to China.

His assets, he didn't have any, were frozen in China.

It was kind of like political theater, to make a point.

and what the Chinese did this time.