Melissa Chen

So Rubio's name in Chinese is Lu Bi Ao, okay, which sounds, you know, like that, hey, remember that Asiana Airlines thing when someone does the ao low, we too low, ao ting dang?

Okay, never mind, but it sounds like that.

But instead of keeping the sanctions or like rescinding the sanctions, what they did was just change Rubio's name in Chinese

So that, oh, now the sanctions don't apply, right?

So instead of Lu Biao, they just changed the character of Lu so that it's like, oh, it's a different guy coming in, right?

Because it is a culture which cannot admit...

any political errors, right?

It's to save face.

Because to actually reverse the sanctions would be to admit, oh, we kind of did something that is a mistake, an error.

So I think that is actually very telling of how the Chinese do things.

Right.

There are a few things for America and China to kind of negotiate on.

You know, there is a ongoing trade dispute, right?

Since Liberation Day, there's been like tariffs here, tariffs there, and then secondary tariffs as well.

So one of the things that they're going to be looking to talk about is trade mechanics.

The second thing is that China's only card is actually on critical minerals.

And so when the trade war escalated, China passed some export controls to prevent the United States from getting critical minerals.

China has about 70% of the world's critical minerals.

90% of the world's critical minerals are processed and mined, which is, you know, that's the important thing is the processing part.

So every F-35 that we make, every Aegis radar, every tank, all these military things that we need for our U.S.