rights bully pulpit disintegrates into ash. the white house showing that human rights is not the biggest priority when it comes to negotiating and dealing with strongmen. you do have to point out that duterte was dramatically elected in the philippines, a longtime traditional ally of the u.s. dave? that is flat out staggering. ivan watson, thank you for the insight. we appreciate it. president trump refusing to rule out military force against north korea following the latest missile test by pyongyang. trump is downplaying friday s test, even after saying the next nuclear test could result in a u.s. military strike, and for some reason, trump is expanding on words of praise for north korean dictator kim jong-un. at a very young age, he was able to assume power. a lot of people, i m sure, tried to take that power away, whether it was his uncle or anybody else. obviously, he s a pretty smart
all options are on the table. what does that mean? we hear that all the time. are you saying preemtive u.s. military strike, that s on the table. all options are on the table. that is the option. but as john mccain said, that s the last option anyone wants it look to. on the other hand, we can t have these people possessing a nuclear weapon, to drop it on where you re sitting in new york cite or where i m sitting in d.c. or anywhere else in the united states. one of the stories here that isn t getting quite the attention it should is china s position on this. they ve been an ally and china looked at them as an asset. they don t any more. they look at them as a real liability. the son right now, who is in charge there, kim jong-un, his father and grandfather were close to china. good friends with cline yoo.
started. for more on the syrian strike and after math, my guest is david petraeus, first in iraq successfully during the surge and then in afghanistan and later served as the director of the cia. dave, welcome. let me ask you good to be with you, fareed, thanks. when you were director of the cia repeatedly urged that the united states get more involved in a sense, pick a side in fact syrian civil war, you were in favor of, as i recall in 2013, some kind of strike at that time when it used chemical wills, so in a sense trump is implementing the david petraeus, hillary clinton, leon panetta strategy right now. are we as a result engaged in the syrian civil war? well, we re certainly engaged in syria. now whether or not you can say
new york steak or more. before dinner he ordered the strike against syria. without the strike, the summit between the leaders of the two largest economies in the world would have been the top headline, instead. it got buried so what did he miss? does the future hold for relations between the united states and china? joining me now are elizabeth economy, director for asia studies. and gram alison is director of the bellford center at harvard s school of government. gram, explain why you think there is a better than even
identify and relatively aggressively go after enemies and both sought a political base by going around elite and stoking nationalism and identifying issue s important t the broader masses. so i think there is probably a deal of good deal of healthy understanding, respect that perhaps the two sort of got from this meeting. i assume, the one thing that trump was not able to get from shi was some kind of an okay that a strike would be okay against north korea. certainly, the timing of the bombing of syria under lined the threat that trump has made that he s prepared to strike north korea unless xi but xi is terrified by that idea as most of the neighbors like south