china, becomew the president of the united states is this period of time. actually is perfect considering what s been dealt with and delivereded up until this point. what s your take on how where we stand right now? i think we re in very, very perilous waters. you know the problem right now is that inside china there is a debt crisis. sankaran mortgage boycott s covid lockdown s. and that means xi jinping, the chinese ruler, has an incentive to distract the chinese people from his own policy mistakes. and that means chinana is lashig out. and if we think about taiwan, of course, because of the speaker s visit. now china is also moving against india. the philippines and japan. those m missile launches a few hours ago, they land five of those 11 missiles landed in11 japanese water. that is an extreme provocation and addition to obviously still the relationship between china n
i ve been to taiwan two or three times. taiwan is an amazing country. they are a democracy supply a lot of our ships that we needy for our military and other means. and china, they re a a a big bully. if you get off the plane and it smells like an ashtray, the biggest polluters and they have a three to six to nine hundred year plan and we don t have a plan. you see that the fractured and splintered nature with the biden foreign policyat as evidence in ukraine and now you see it again with china and taiwan in the united states . i thought nancy pelosi didth the right thing. my only regret i don t o agree with her on anything. h my only regret is she didn t include more republicans. she has the right to travel. she has the right to go anywhere she wants. where are the united states of america? un and joeit biden should not have basically thrown her out the door and under the carpet and he needs to stand up to because they re a bully. they re using the wto to take advantage of a developin
people. this is why, you know, we havedo tremendous weakness in dealing with this fundamental existential threat to us , the threats of the ccp poses to us , timi. . it s far more dangerous than anything the soviet union presentedd to us because the soviets essentially presented a one dimensional threat which wasas nuclear and t was existential. the chinese threat is a hydra headed threat. it s economic. it s military, it s geostrategic. it s in terms of flooding this countryte with deadly fentanyl and other drugs, killing hundreds of thousands ofentanyl hundreds of americans t. this is a multi layered threat and this president is crippled in so many ways that he can t h and won t take them. you know, it s remarkable. an excellent analysis there, gordon. clearlyrkab your background inde understanding the nature of the beast of china, that they are everywhere they ve planned so far ahead of time that it seems unlikely that somehow america would allowou someone, let s say, beholden too
half, as the bidenf administration becomes weakerec and more troubled here atom hom, john , there is close coordination and cooperation between russia, china and iran as well as north korea sort of on the fringes, but they re all working hand in glove and all t of america s enemies understand that they ve got a pretty limited window of opportunityhe here, timid toir act and to advance their own interests at the expense of ours. they know that t congress is likely to change handsay starting january 1st, maybe both houses. so m there might be some additional restrictions. but they also realize that they ve got another t two years under this president orr a successor before there is a change in leadership at the top in the u.s.. y and so, you know, you can t really blame america s enemies for seizing this opportunity. you know, they ve been negligent if they didn t. butls they also know that i the u.s.s is not going to retaliate in any meaningful way because the commander in chief justice
you know. and also the worldga health organization is another example of what china seems too control . that, of course, did a disservice to this entire planet when coveredanee with emerging. and again, but i think we all agree i love that she was going to taiwan, but we presume that it s an organized dynamic involving our entire government and everyone is in agreement and we re not going to display,e you know, the family fight in front of the enemy, which they then know. and i think it inspires them and they use that and figure they can even do more and movees forward even more aggressively. beenlly, this should havesi a visit that reinforced our ouro strength and our support of a friend. and would you agree that it seems to have done the opposite at this point? oinwell, i think that it is a t disturbing that the administration was behind the scenes discouraging speaker pelosi from making that trip, t but that she did the right thing. i agree that she did the right thing by going ahea