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🗓️ 7 March 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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President Donald Trump has been widely criticized for his “transactional” approach to diplomacy. But is that really such a bad thing?
In this episode, I sit down with China expert and retired U.S. Marine Col. Grant Newsham, a senior research fellow with the Center for Security Policy, to discuss Trump’s approach to diplomacy and negotiations and how America can leverage what he describes as the “kryptonite” of the Chinese regime.
Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.
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0:00.0 | You hear all the time Mr. Trump is Putin's stooge. |
0:03.6 | Well, let's think about it. |
0:04.8 | All the presidents that were involved in Ukraine, |
0:07.5 | it was Mr. Trump who gave lethal weapons to the Ukrainians, |
0:10.8 | particularly javelin missiles. |
0:12.4 | And in the war since then, the Russians have suffered |
0:15.0 | well over half a million casualties, many of those dead. |
0:18.2 | In this episode, I sit down with China expert |
0:20.5 | and retired U.S. Marine Colonel Grant |
0:22.6 | Newsham, Research Fellow at the Center for Security Policy. |
0:25.6 | America was pushing businesses into China. |
0:28.6 | At the same time, the Chinese were telling their army be able to defeat a country with aircraft |
0:33.6 | carriers. |
0:34.6 | They meant the Americans. |
0:35.6 | Take a week and read the Chinese media, the English |
0:38.2 | language versions of it, and the venom directed at the United States, that'll give you a pretty |
0:44.0 | good sense of what our prospects are for. Really establishing a decent relationship with the Chinese |
0:49.6 | communists. I just don't think it's possible. Today, Nusham describes the unique strategy he sees in Trump's actions vis-à-vis China |
0:57.2 | and how America can leverage what he describes as the regime's kryptonite. |
1:02.1 | This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Yanya Kellogg. |
1:07.0 | Grant Nusham, such a pleasure to have you back on American Thought Leaders. |
1:10.4 | I'm glad to be here. |
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