be okay if the president of the united states talks to the leader of a major u.s. ally like taiwan. secondly, i remember that president obama has met with the dalai lama a number of times over his teen nunure, also a sensitive subject for the chinese, but it s been okay, and thirdly, i guess i think both countries are, and both leaders, are trying to feel each other out. we need a constructive relationship with china, but as a rising power, china is testing what they can get away with, and you mentioned, or the report mentioned building islands in the south china sea, et cetera. a little bit of pushback, and i think especially with enhanced u.s. military power, it s probably a good thing to help channel this relationship towards more constructive ends. is it your understanding that this phone conversation wasn t just the spur of the moment
china. there had been more or less a status quo with the main land over the last 15 years, sort of a slow absorption of taiwan back in the fold, the renegade province finally having better relations with the main land. but also let s understand that mr. trump during this campaign had singled out china because of the failure of the pivot by the obama administration to china. so we had a lot of challenges, trade currency, trade and currency fluctuation, and manipulation charges. building islands, military outposts on the south china sea, failure to support efforts to try to rein in north korea s nuclear program. a heavy dose of concerns that any administration should have with china. john huntsman, former ambassador to china, he had this take on the phone call. take a listen. there is a little too much hyperventilating about this one. we ought to be giving them a
with u.s. economy has with china. for example china has the largest foreign debt holder of the united states. they have a big influence on our economy which is part of the reason we try to play nice in the sand box with them. with all due respect this goes back to donald trump s campaign promise where he said china has been getting the better of us for the last 15, 20 years. look what they have been doing with building islands in the middle let me finish. you cut me which one has been more aggressive towards the united states. let s talk about building. or trade war issues or military expansion in building islands in the middle of nowhere. donald trump is saying guess what, you are not going to keep pushing us around and he made a simple phone call. if people freak out in china over this that is what their media this is exactly what we re concerned about is the buildings that are going on in the trump
building islands and fortifying them. i would not have made that call. but the president has clearly a different agenda. i don t think it will result to war. but what i do think that china itself has been enormously aggressive too. in the south china sea s example they said they wouldn t arm islands. they are making islands and arming them. and to date we ve not had a policy pushing bang back on chinese or pushing back on russia. and this is another example why we need a warrior in the department of defense to shore up relationships with our allies and when we make a red line we need to make sure we hold it. thank you. next, donald trump trying to stop recounts in several states with razor thin margins of victory. his numbers in pennsylvania show his lead dwindling tonight. and trump picking a billionaire to head the microsoft cloud helps us
improved. the statement for a wall where we re looking for you can almost say military purposes and that way you avoid it as an example in the south china sea, china is building islands, massive islands that are being military bases. they are taking out and dredging the sea. they are dredging the ocean. they don t go about you say mexico is going to pay for the wall. mexico is going to pay. are they going to put the money up front? how do you do that? they will pay in one of three or four different ways. i ll charge a terrific. i m friendly with mexico and i employ thousands of people, mexicans are great people. they like me. i m doing very well with the hispanics and in nevada leading in the polls because i create jobs. i ll take jobs back from china. here is the thing. mexico is making a fortune. you look at the trade deficit that we have with mexico. they are making a fortune. ford is going to build a $2.5 billion plant in mexico.