China Makes its Move

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
President Trump and x Shin Ping and their summit in China.
Good morning, Kooner contrary. Okay, my friends, the heavily hyped
and historic, as everyone's been calling it, summit between President

(00:30):
Trump and the leader of China, Jijinpang is now over.
President Trump is on board Air Force one leaving China
as we speak. And the question now is over the
last couple of days, what has actually concretely been achieved?

(00:50):
And as far as President Trump is concerned, he believes
that it has been an immensely successful summit. When asked
by Report, what exactly concretely have you delivered Number one.
As many of you know, Trump came not just with
Secretary of State Marco Rubio or Secretary of Defense Pete

(01:12):
Hegseth or many key members of his cabinet. He also
came with an army an entourage of the leading CEOs
of the top companies businesses in the United States, led
of course by Elon Musk and Tesla, and according to Trump,

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countless deals were cut over the last forty eight hours
that he says is going to create thousands and thousands
of jobs in the United States. Companies now have agreed
to invest in China. China has agreed to invest hundreds

(01:58):
of billions of dollars in the unit United States, and
that they have pledged to buy a lot of what
these American businesses are selling.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
And so he says, you're going to.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
See a lot more investment on the US side into
China and a lot more investment on the Chinese side
into the United States. So trade deals, business deals were cut.
One of the biggest China agreed to buy two hundred
seventh Boeing seven thirty seven planes. So this is obviously

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a big contract and it's going to benefit Americans here
because it's going to open up several factories and the
assembly lines are going to be churning out plane after plane.
So Trump believes economically this has been clearly a success.
More importantly, the president was focused on Iran and he

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wanted something from Xixinping g gave a public statement that
he supports Trump in ensuring that Iran is never allowed
to have a nuclear weapon. Number one and number two
on the Strait of Hormuz, China came out and said

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that they want a permanent free passage in the Strait
of Hormoose. In other words, they don't want it blocked.
They don't want the Uranians to block it or mine it.
That they want it restored to what it was before,
unimpeded free passage of products, especially oil, but everything that

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goes through that vital waterway. And g made the point
that the Uranians should not be allowed to impose tolls,
so at least in terms of lip service. What they're
gonna do in reality privately is something else we'll have
to see. But at least publicly, President Trump got the

(04:11):
Chinese leader and the Chinese government to officially declare that
Iran and the Mullahs must never get the bomb and
must now clear the Strait of Hormus now on the
all important question of Taiwan. And this is why I
believe this meeting is historic and will go down in

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history as a watershed. And this is what everybody is
talking about. What was very noticeable is the pomp, the pageantry,
the circumstance that Trump received when he landed in Beijing.

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They the Chinese Communist Party rolled out the red carpet
literally they had a military honor band, They had hundreds
of young children singing. Their band played the Star Spangled banner.
I mean, they truly went all out to impress the President.

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Trump repeatedly said it was an incredible visit. He was
touched at the warmth, at the effort, at the spectacle.
Everybody raved about how excellent the food was. Nobody could
stop talking about it, not just Trump, even Rubio, Hegseth,
Stephen Miller, everybody. They said, the Chinese really went all

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out to impress President Trump. And for the Chinese, this
was for them their coming out party because the summit
was now built and accepted by both sides that this
was no longer a summit between two great powers, but

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it was now a summit at between two great superpowers
that in front of the entire world and especially within China,
with the cameras rolling and the entire country watching President
Trump and Jixinpang at a very important state banquet dinner,

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we're toasting each other very you know, similar to Nixon
and Mao in the nineteen seventies, and Xixinpang let it
be known that China is now a superpower. And President
Trump had no choice but to acknowledge and accept that

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China is now a superpower, a true rival, and someone
who is now essentially on a par with the United States.

Speaker 3 (07:04):
They stood shoulder to shoulder.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
Clearly, now China is flexing their economic and military muscles.

Speaker 3 (07:12):
Both talked about.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
The need for having stability and prosperity and mutual respect
in their relationship. As President Trump said, the China Rush,
the China US relationship is the most consequential relationship in history.
In other words, Now, what came out of the summit

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was a public acknowledgment that the world now has not one,
but now two superpowers, and that essentially all major world
issues now, like in the Cold War, would involve the
United States and the Soviet Union to settle. Essentially now

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are going to be between China and the United States
to settle. I think there's no there will be no
going back from this, at least in our lifetime. And
then came up the issue of Taiwan. And never before
as a Chinese leader spoken so brazenly and openly to

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a president of the United States the way Jijinping did
in his talks with Trump. Usually it's done through the
Foreign Minister, it's done through the state media, it's done
through the foreign ministry. But this time Jijinping looked at Trump,

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and this was widely reported because there was a room
full of dignitaries and obviously Trump's team the Chinese team.

Speaker 3 (08:51):
Where and this is historically very very important.

Speaker 2 (08:56):
Jixinping looked at Trump and said, we are going to
have potentially the most prosperous, cooperative, mutually beneficial relationship in
human history. But there is now one issue that stands
in our way, and that is the issue of Taiwan. Taiwan,

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according to Jijinping, is the one issue that, if it
is mishandled his words, could lead us to not just
a confrontation, but an outright conflict and maybe even war.
And so what he essentially told the President of the

(09:41):
United States, we have now drawn a red line. Taiwan
eventually must be ours. And if you decide to try
to pull Taiwan out of our strategic orbit, wink wink,

(10:02):
like you try to do with Ukraine Visa VI Russia,
you will unleash World War III.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
This is now our red line.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
And then he used an historical analogy, and this is
the analogy that is going to represent the essence of
this summit. She told Trump to avoid the quote Theusiciti's trap.
Theusicities was the famous ancient Greek historian who wrote about

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the Peloponnesian War, in which he said that the established
power Sparta challenged by the rising power Athens, led to
a disastrous war. What she was saying is that the
United States is Sparta and China is Athens.

Speaker 3 (11:01):
They are rising and if.

Speaker 2 (11:04):
Sparta I e US are not careful, it could lead
to a war.

Speaker 1 (11:09):
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