president of taiwan. i know her ferruly well, extremely capable and strategic thinker. this could not have come off better in terms of projecting the stage that stands together as we look at a foreign policy challenge. in terms of what happened next, jonathan, i m not believing we re going to see a real spike of activity from china if you recall the pelosi visit, that was pretty dramatic we had missiles, a blockade around taiwan. don t look for that right now. and the reason is not that president xi is suddenly more friendly or thoughtful or more balanced it s because he s trying to get his economy moving as it comes out of the doldrums of their misguided covid policy, so he s not looking for a huge spike in relations in the united states and tension.
stalemate, all tied up to the post brexit situation. the so called northern ireland protocol which deals with trading issues in northern ireland. so they are looking at how to try to fix those issues. but it is really not clear at all how that will pan out. so the situation there, as i mentioned, is multilayered. and with the protocol itself, well, there is no real consensus on the way ahead so far. the european union very clear, they are saying, look, the uk signed this protocol in good faith and they knew exactly, say the eu, what it meant and what it would lead to and what it involved. so that is it. it doesn t seem to be a lot of appetite to go back to the negotiating table. we shall see. i mentioned the war in ukraine. obviously, that is the big foreign policy challenge of the moment. so with that in mind and given the prominent role boris johnson has played, i want to talk
comes to the greatest foreign policy challenge facing the united states, how to deal with the rise of china, they have continued and mimicked trump s destructive approach. he added this has prompted glee among departed trump officials who proudly declared themselves innovators and the biden administration unimaginative and dutiful implementers. ryan haas argues that the communication channels for managing tensions have collapsed. but while the biden administration s approach has been tactically fraught and can be adjusted, beijing s errors are much more serious and strategic. over the past decade, under president xi jinping, china has changed its taiwan policy with potentially catastrophic consequences. modern china s paramount leader deng xiaoping outlined a
president trump s foreign policy bitterly, when it comes to the greatest foreign policy challenge facing the united states, how to deal with the rise of china, they have continued and mimicked trump s approach. he added, this has prompted glee among departed trump officials who declare themselves as innovators and the biden administration as dutiful implementers. another argues that the communication channels for managing tensions have collapsed. but while the biden administration s approach has been tactically flawed and can be adjusted, beijing s errors are much more serious and strategic. over the past decade, under president xi jinping, china has changed its taiwan policy, with potentially catastrophic consequences. modern china s leader outlined a
decade how to operate it. now they ve created their own and now they have the advantage in that region. they ve watched russia invade ukraine. we sent aid. we ve sent them intelligence work. we have not come to the aid militarily of ukraine. do you think there will be a point or where it s inevitable where china will test to see if we will come to the military aid of taiwan? i know that director cia burns has warned about that most recently out in aspen a couple of weeks ago. there s grave concern that china will indeed seek to impose its will by force on taiwan. that is a key foreign policy challenge for the biden administration. demonstrating that, you know, if china assesses that they can get away with it, they would not spill a high amount of blood and pressure in doing so, they may indeed seek to alter taiwan, the