Rudyard Griffiths

This comes on the heels of Trump's visit with Xi, where Xi supposedly painted a bold red line under Taiwan and specifically called out the United States on this $12 billion weapons package for Taiwan.

How significant is this for the president then just mere days later to, I assume, have his officials conveniently communicate that because of all the interceptor and other stockpile drawdowns related to the wars in the Middle East, this shipment, which was green light go as of last week, is now suddenly indefinitely postponed?

Final question.

We now, in a sense, have in a matter of a few weeks, seemingly undone a decade or more of American policy, maybe a decade and a half, the so-called pivot to the Pacific away from the Middle East to either contain, you know, previous administrations have used that language or control in the case of the Trump administration, the rise of China and its ability to build, in a sense, a

a geographic

kind of hegemonic order in Southeast Asia, in the Pacific Sea, threatening, as you've mentioned, the Philippines, South Korea, Japan, pulling them into its orbit.

It's amazing, Janice, to me that this has all happened, and there's really been not a lot of debate just about how significant a change in U.S.

foreign policy this in fact is, and the extent to which the president either intentionally or

instinctually is reordering American foreign policy clearly around a spheres of influence doctrine that, you know, Putin has Eastern Europe, he has North and South Central America, and presumably now Xi has a freer, wider hand in Southeast Asia.

Where's the debate?

Where's the discussion?

Where's the realization, Janice, of just how big these tectonic shifts are, again, either intentional or convenient for the president in the context of whatever set of calculations he's making about his own short-term political interests or personal financial gain?

I'm just somewhat struck at the lack of

of recognition of how significant the undoing is of those last 15 years of supposedly pivoting to the Pacific and then the

The potential consequences of this to just have American foreign policy, military security, technology transfer, all these major planks that have been articulated by multiple administrations prior to the president's trip to China just last week effectively torn off the floor and thrown out the front door.

Yeah, it just seems like a strange paralysis that has set in.

And it's not just foreign policy.

It's a lot of American domestic policy.

debates around the Supreme Court, the division of powers, the respective fundamental core principle conversations about what's happening to America at home and abroad.

And it all just seems to