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Malcom Nance: Foreign Policy Analyst and Former US Navy Senior Chief on Trump's meeting with President Xi Jinping · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Let's go to Malcolm Nance, intelligence foreign policy analyst, former
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  Speaker 1: United States Navy senior chief with us this morning. Malcolm,
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  Speaker 1: good morning, this is the big meeting is under is
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  Speaker 1: almost underway. I should say, we have the president arriving
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  Speaker 1: in Beijing. Who has the upper hand here? Do you
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  Speaker 1: think of these talks?
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  Speaker 2: Well, unfortunately, China is playing the adominent room now. Donald
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  Speaker 2: Trump has shown that he cannot maintain a stable foreign
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  Speaker 2: policy or a policy platform that would allow the United
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  Speaker 2: States to take advantage of whatever little leverage that they've
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  Speaker 2: gotten out of the Iran War. And Trump is confronted
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  Speaker 2: with having to do one of two things today or
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  Speaker 2: during his visit. One beg China for assistance in using
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  Speaker 2: maybe even their naval forces to come and help work
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  Speaker 2: with the Iranians to open the Straight of Hornless. And
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  Speaker 2: there are other things that the United States needs that
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  Speaker 2: China is now protectionist in you rein nitrate. China will
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  Speaker 2: not allow any fertilizers to be shipped out of their
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  Speaker 2: country right now, and their national oil reserves are almost
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  Speaker 2: you know, invoking jealousy within the United States. So we
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  Speaker 2: are sort of the United States are behind the eight
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  Speaker 2: ball on being able to leverage this trip. That Chinese,
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  Speaker 2: on the other hand, will likely view it as an
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to eat America's economic lunch.
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  Speaker 1: Malcolm, what do you think he's going to say about
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  Speaker 1: Taiwan if anything?
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  Speaker 2: Hmm, I really fear about that because Donald Trump is
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  Speaker 2: a transactional person. He does not believe in consistency of history, policy,
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  Speaker 2: or continuity of what one president thinks, you know, is
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  Speaker 2: right in terms of defunding democracies or our allies. Trump
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  Speaker 2: views it as what he can get out of it.
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  Speaker 2: Personally is a man that admires you for being a
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  Speaker 2: life president. He admires Kim Jong un for being able
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  Speaker 2: to do what he wants and have people, you know,
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  Speaker 2: jump up and clap like a group of trained seals.
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  Speaker 2: So with regards to Taiwan, he'll probably view it as
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  Speaker 2: a financial transaction. Taiwan creates microchips for the United States
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  Speaker 2: and also buys US defensive weapons. It really is up in.
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  Speaker 1: The sounds like we've lost Malcolm there. That was Malcolm Nance,
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  Speaker 1: intelligence foreign policy analyst and former United States Navy senior
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