Robert Wright

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595 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Nov 2024 last heard Nov 2024

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We will not, if the speaker of the house, as Nancy Pelosi did, is going to stage this visit that you're going to find threatening, I will do everything within my power to stop that, even though the president doesn't have the power to actually, you know, just just just say we understand what you find threatening about Taiwan.
We want you to understand what makes it hard for us to not.
speak belligerently about Taiwan to our constituency.
You know, you you go do these aggressive military displays.
That makes our life harder.
Just have the conversation.
Say, okay, we're gonna move Taiwan off the table.
Um
And uh we're not gonna lecture you about human rights.
Let's work out some rules of the road about uh, you know, those islands in the Philippines.
And again, the the context of this has to be, yeah, we recognize this there's a serious problem.
AI is like we neither of us really knows how this is gonna play out.
Both of us can imagine globally catastrophic scenarios.
And
So job one, you get the relationship on a sound footing.
It's been there before.
And um
Look, if they say no, fine, you tried.
But uh I I I really don't think they would, and I'm confident we haven't tried.
And and so I'd say you do that, and then you have the as you just established, equally challenging conversation about well, how do we reassure each other?
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