Let me ask you about adversaries,
because among Trump
supporters is of you,
because Trump is so crude,
so obnoxious, so overbearing,
so insulting.
He must impress the Chinese
no end that
that that kind of
they must look at it and say,
there is one rough tough guy who
we better not fool around with.
And, you know,
Obama was so polite and
George W Bush was so affable.
We didn't
we don't respect them, but,
we can respect this guy
and that the world
that the world now
fears, Donald fears
across Donald Trump.
What is your assessment
of what the adversaries like?
Well, China's laughing okay.
China is,
plays a long game.
They understand that, in,
a trade war
with the United States,
in many ways,
they have the upper hand. Why?
In large part
because they're not a democracy.
And they can withstand
economic pain. Blame them.
Blame it on the United States.
And their people will will eat it.
That's not going to work here
in the United States.
And plus,
China is looking at the
damage that we are doing to,
economies around Asia
and seeing an opportunity
for them to fill a vacuum
in the bilateral,
trade relationship
that, that we've left.
Moreover,
China,
played Trump's game with him
and he said in
Trump said, you know,
we're going to tariff
you this amount.
And China said, okay,
I'll call you and raise you.
And they went back and forth,
and until it got to a crazy,
level.
But the Chinese are
not backing down.
And the Chinese,
moreover, are saying
beyond the trade room,
we've got a whole bunch
of non-trade things
we can do
to make your life miserable,
Donald Trump.
And that's
when they went after rare earths
and a whole bunch of of other,
important,
products, commodities
that we depend on that,
that the China only can provide.