Saagar Enjeti

So it is a little bit of a wild card.

But so far, the obsequiousness and the level of respect that Trump is offering to Xi, this is –

It's not just negotiation.

Like, he really does need a lot from him.

He needs him to save his economic skin.

He wants the stock market and all these other things to continue to go up.

And it's also becoming clear they really need them on China.

Sorry, on Iran, is that there are multiple statements now from the Secretary of State and Donald Trump about how Iran, while they claim was not going to be a significant part of this, it absolutely is.

Right.

And it's not just us saying this.

It's the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff as well.

But let's also take a very close listen to something that was put out by Xi Jinping from his official translation, a warning about the Thucydides trap.

Let's take a listen.

Trump's like, oh, yes.

Oh, yes.

Thucydides Trap.

I remember reading about that.

I thought deeply about this topic.

For those of you who don't know, Thucydides Trap, I think we had a whole unit on it back in graduate school.

It's Graham Allison.