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Gordon Chang | Author & Geopolitics Expert | 05-11-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Joining me right now. The man himself, Gordon g. Chang
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  Speaker 1: on Twitter, the Great Gordon Chang, as President Trump gets
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  Speaker 1: set to go meet Gee Thursday and Friday in China. Gordon,
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  Speaker 1: good Monday morning, buddy, How are you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm fine, said, and thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: Great to have your back before we get to this
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  Speaker 1: big China visit. I'm gonna be honest. I took a
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  Speaker 1: vote about thirty minutes ago. My guys are on the show,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Gord, Lou and Noel and Justin. I said,
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  Speaker 1: if I ask Gordon Chang in thirty minutes, which is
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  Speaker 1: now the hunt of virus? Did that originate in some
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  Speaker 1: wet lamb in China like the coronavirus? What do you think?
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  Speaker 2: He says?
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  Speaker 1: And do you know? It was unanimous four to four
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  Speaker 1: said that Gordon will say that yes, this virus was
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  Speaker 1: created somewhere. Also not very long before the midterms, good timing.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think the truth is about this latest virus.
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  Speaker 2: I hate to disappoint you guys, but I don't know
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  Speaker 2: the answer to this. Oh. I mean, we don't have
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  Speaker 2: any evidence that it popped out of China. Now, if
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  Speaker 2: this were a bola, I would say almost certainly it
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  Speaker 2: came from China, because we know that the Wuhon is studentroology.
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  Speaker 2: Those friends who gave us COVID nineteen are now weaponizing
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  Speaker 2: a bola, and we know that they're working on other
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  Speaker 2: diseases as well. But hintavirus, You know, I just I
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  Speaker 2: wish I knew the answer.
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  Speaker 1: All right, at least you're honest. Let's get to all
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  Speaker 1: what's going to happen on Thursday. This trip was supposed
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  Speaker 1: to happen last month, but of course the Eiron War
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  Speaker 1: made sure that Trump didn't go. But he is going
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  Speaker 1: this Thursday. It's a big two day meeting with she
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  Speaker 1: Trump posted on social media recently, President, she will give
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  Speaker 1: me a big bathog when I get there in a
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  Speaker 1: few weeks. We're working together smartly and very well. Doesn't
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  Speaker 1: that be fighting? So Trump is telling everybody things are
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  Speaker 1: all good. But I'm hearing reports that China is still
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  Speaker 1: supplying Iran with weapons, maybe through the Caspyan c that
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  Speaker 1: China is very involved in keeping Iran afloat in this
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  Speaker 1: war against America. Does Trump not know that? Is he
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  Speaker 1: just being very nice? What's the truth China and Iran?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what Trump actually knows, but he does
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  Speaker 2: have the US intelligence communities. So my answer would be,
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  Speaker 2: he must know the Chinese are supplying the Iranians with
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  Speaker 2: weapons that the Iranians are using to kill Americans. So,
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  Speaker 2: for instance, those six Americans who were killed on March first,
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  Speaker 2: those who are Iranian drones. Every Iranian drone has Chinese
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  Speaker 2: microchips or microchips that the Chinese sourced from others. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure Trump knows, but it's you know, and I
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  Speaker 2: actually think that it's incumbent on him to tell the
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  Speaker 2: American what he knows because these are the lives of
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  Speaker 2: American service people at risk.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's interesting, you know, I know what he does.
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  Speaker 1: He's trying to make sure that he gets there. It's
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  Speaker 1: all nice and he can get stuff done. He's he's
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  Speaker 1: a brilliant, brilliant tactician when it comes to that, especially
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  Speaker 1: with people you don't get along with. Right North Korea,
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  Speaker 1: China putin, he's the best at that, maybe the best ever.
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  Speaker 1: But the truth is is that China is helping the enemy. Now,
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  Speaker 1: China is in a tough spot here because the US
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  Speaker 1: blockade at the Strait of Hornmuz is preventing China from
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  Speaker 1: accessing Iran's oil, which they need. I boy, believe correct
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  Speaker 1: me if I'm wrong. The majority of their oil comes
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  Speaker 1: from that strait. So they're in a tough spot in
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  Speaker 1: that A they're actually helping Iran, but b they need
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  Speaker 1: Iran to back off the straight because they need the oil.
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  Speaker 1: They're kind of playing both sides here.
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  Speaker 2: No. Oh, yeah, China gets first of all takes. Last
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  Speaker 2: year took eighty seven point two percent I think of
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  Speaker 2: Iran's exports of crude. China gets somewhere between forty five
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  Speaker 2: to fifty percent of its seaborne imports of oil from
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  Speaker 2: the Strait of Formus. And also, you know, we know
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  Speaker 2: that China is the world's largest importer of crude oil.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, they're hurting. We saw this in the April
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  Speaker 2: CPI numbers from Beijing which were released a few hours ago.
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  Speaker 2: And so yeah, Trump has an important card that he
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  Speaker 2: can play. You know, Trump goes to Beijing, and you
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  Speaker 2: got to look at the context. He goes to Beijing
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  Speaker 2: carrying certain built in disadvantages. So, for instance, the Chinese
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  Speaker 2: view every foreign leader who comes as no more than
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  Speaker 2: a tribal chieftain coming to pay homage. Si Jimping is
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  Speaker 2: especially arrogant to make that worst Segemping is now Security's
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  Speaker 2: propagating a lot of anti American narratives. And of course
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  Speaker 2: Trump didn't go for the March thirty one summit because
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  Speaker 2: of the Iran War. But the Iran War is still ongoing,
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  Speaker 2: and so the Chines view this as Trump coming to
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  Speaker 2: ask for their help. That's not a good look. But
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  Speaker 2: you know, Trump is Trump. He can change and defy
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  Speaker 2: conventional wisdom. He can do something that puts the Chinese
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  Speaker 2: on the back foot. And he absolutely needs to do that,
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  Speaker 2: sid because he needs to show setim Ping that he's
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  Speaker 2: not afraid of America, that he's not afraid of China.
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  Speaker 2: And right now the Chinese think that Trump is afraid
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  Speaker 2: of them. That is not good. I'm not saying the
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  Speaker 2: Chinese are right. I'm saying that's the way they're looking
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  Speaker 2: at it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. No, this is why Trump is mad at you, Gordon,
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  Speaker 1: because he's even though you're even though you're probably accurate,
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  Speaker 1: I know I'm right, even though you may be accurate.
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  Speaker 1: So then tell me to put the Chinese on their
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  Speaker 1: back foot. As you just said, is that taris is
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  Speaker 1: that trade? He's not going to threaten them with any
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  Speaker 1: military involvement. So practically, what does President Trump do to say?
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  Speaker 1: Does she hate tough guy? Calm down, I'm about to
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  Speaker 1: put you in your place.
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  Speaker 2: Two things. First of all, remember Trump warned that any
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  Speaker 2: country that would supply Iran with weapons during the course
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  Speaker 2: of the war would be hit with an American additional
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  Speaker 2: fifty percent tariff on their goods. Trump needs to do that.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the evidence is there for everyone to see.
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  Speaker 2: So I think Trump needs to make good on his threat.
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  Speaker 2: Otherwise the Chinese will think he's just hollowman. The other
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  Speaker 2: thing he needs to do is we know that Chinese
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  Speaker 2: banks have been laundering money for the Chinese Kangs. They've
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  Speaker 2: been complicit in this. Secretary Ves Treasury Secretary has been
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  Speaker 2: warning about employing Section three eleven of the USA Patriot Act,
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  Speaker 2: which would disconnect the Chinese banks from their dollar accounts. Look,
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  Speaker 2: we need to do this regardless of Trump's visit or
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  Speaker 2: no visit, because China right now has a free pass
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  Speaker 2: to violate American laws. If we're not going to enforce
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  Speaker 2: our laws, we need to repeal them. But the worst
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  Speaker 2: thing is today, and that is we say we got
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  Speaker 2: these laws, but we Base say to China, come here
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  Speaker 2: and violate our laws because we're happy for you to
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  Speaker 2: money launder. We didn't let Pablo Escobar launder money through
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  Speaker 2: New York, but we will let you. That's really wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Is that really happening?
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  Speaker 2: One hundred percent? The Chinese money laundering gangs have taken
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  Speaker 2: over the money laundering business around the world, not just
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  Speaker 2: for the Mexican cartels. We know that these Chinese money
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  Speaker 2: laundering gangs use Chinese banking apps, They use the Chinese
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  Speaker 2: banking system to do this. China's banking system is tightly controlled. Remember,
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  Speaker 2: China is basically a totalitarian state. The Chinese know exactly
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  Speaker 2: what these Chinese gangs are doing. So yeah, these Chinese
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  Speaker 2: banks are complicit in money laundering for Mexican drug lords
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  Speaker 2: and for other bad actors around the world. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: Bessen has been warning them over the last couple months,
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  Speaker 2: well actually the last couple of weeks, but we haven't
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  Speaker 2: seen anything happen. And this is not just a Trump issue,
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  Speaker 2: this is a Biden issue, this is Obama issue. We've
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  Speaker 2: known the Chinese have been doing this stuff, and we
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  Speaker 2: have not had the courage to enforce our own laws.
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  Speaker 2: So this is on US SID.
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  Speaker 1: Gordon Shang Gordon g. Chang on Twitter. I know ideally
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  Speaker 1: she would love to have his Chinese car makers here
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  Speaker 1: in the US market, and we want those rare earth minerals, right,
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  Speaker 1: I mean those things are used everything from your smartbones
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  Speaker 1: to depend systems to AI. Those are two major topics
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  Speaker 1: on the table on Thursday and Friday, Chinese car makers
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  Speaker 1: and rare earth minerals. Where is he that going?
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  Speaker 2: Well? I don't know what Trump will do, but Trump
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  Speaker 2: absolutely should not allow Chinese evs into our country. They
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  Speaker 2: are rolling spy machines. They transmit data back to China.
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  Speaker 2: In other words, you know, you drive a Chinese EV
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  Speaker 2: onto a US military base, they see everything. Also, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the Chinese can remotely control these cars, so if they
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  Speaker 2: want to, they can drive your car off the cliff
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  Speaker 2: with you in it. So this is just wrong. The
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  Speaker 2: Biden Administration, to its great credit, in January twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 2: issued regulations that effectively prevent Chinese evs on America's roads.
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  Speaker 2: We need to put that into legislation, as some Republican
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  Speaker 2: congressmen are trying to do, because this needs to be
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  Speaker 2: more than just an executive order. It needs to be
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  Speaker 2: permanent legislation. And the last thing we should do is
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  Speaker 2: allow Chinese to make cars in our country. And that's
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  Speaker 2: a long conversation. There are a lot of reasons, but
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  Speaker 2: we do not want China to take over Detroit, and
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  Speaker 2: that's what would happen because of Chinese subsidies.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want that. I don't want them buying land
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  Speaker 1: in New York, you know, and I don't want any
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  Speaker 1: of that. Now, what about these are rare earth minerals? Currently,
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  Speaker 1: China controls the majority of the manufacturing supply chain of
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  Speaker 1: these minerals. It's bad enough you can't get an antibiotic
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  Speaker 1: in the United States about the Chinese. What about these
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  Speaker 1: rare earth minerals.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, China has a near monopoly on the processing of
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  Speaker 2: rare earths, processing ninety two percent of global rare earths.
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  Speaker 2: It also mines a lot of them. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: here give great cut it to the Trump administration for
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  Speaker 2: taking very important steps to reduce our vulnerability to Chinese
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  Speaker 2: rare earths. So this is really good news. And also
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  Speaker 2: a lot of Americans are coming up within genius ways
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  Speaker 2: to reduce or eliminate our need for Chinese rare earths,
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  Speaker 2: so you know, two years down the road, we won't
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  Speaker 2: have this vulnerability. We'll still have vulnerability on pharmaceuticals. We
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  Speaker 2: need to do a lot more. Senator Rick Scott Florida
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  Speaker 2: is working on this problem, but we need to have
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  Speaker 2: president and President Trump has been helping on this, so
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  Speaker 2: that's good too, but we need much more focus on it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm surprised too that one of the topics of conversation
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  Speaker 1: looks like on this big Trump trip and he's taking
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  Speaker 1: the guy from Boweling with him. I know that, so
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of business I'll be dealing with, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm surprised that Taiwan will still be a topic of discussion.
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  Speaker 1: I guess the Chinese know that we supply them with weapons,
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  Speaker 1: and we know that they'd love to absorb Taiwan, have
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  Speaker 1: given the opportunity, so I guess Taiwan is delay.
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  Speaker 2: Discussion in any conversation with Chinese officials, it is Taiwan
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  Speaker 2: is something that they will bring up, and yes, they
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  Speaker 2: do want to annex Taiwan, but no, the people in
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  Speaker 2: Taiwan don't want to be a next and it's our
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  Speaker 2: interest to make sure that China keeps its midst off
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  Speaker 2: of Taiwan, because Taiwan is really important for the United States,
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  Speaker 2: not only microchips, but it's other things as well. You know,
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  Speaker 2: after Biden's catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan, Taiwan became the test
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  Speaker 2: of American credibility and resolve around the world. So this
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  Speaker 2: is not just a Taiwan or not just an Asia issue.
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  Speaker 2: This is an issue that transcends just East Asia.
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  Speaker 1: Something discussion with somebody last week, and they claim they
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  Speaker 1: vote for both parties, but I don't trust them. No,
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  Speaker 1: I don't like Trump. And they were saying that there
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  Speaker 1: there's no superpower. The United States is not a superpower. Now.
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  Speaker 1: I said to you on this show a couple of
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  Speaker 1: weeks ago, on you agreed that the United States is
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  Speaker 1: still a superpower. Why because we still have a great
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  Speaker 1: economy around the world. Our economy is far and away
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  Speaker 1: the best. You can't put Russia and China in the
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  Speaker 1: same category, not even close. So I maintain and say
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  Speaker 1: by what I said a couple of weeks ago that
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  Speaker 1: the only world superpower right now is US and not
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  Speaker 1: the Chinese or the Russians.
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  Speaker 2: Your thoughts, You're one hundred percent right, Sid We are
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  Speaker 2: energy independent we are food independent, the Chinese are not.
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  Speaker 1: That's a big one. So tell me about Russia quickly.
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  Speaker 1: Last one and Ukraine. Putin said this war could be
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  Speaker 1: over very very soon.
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  Speaker 2: Is that what you're hearing, Gordon, Well, the Ukrainians are
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  Speaker 2: having their way with the Russians. So yeah, I think
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  Speaker 2: Putin is signaling that he's just had enough of this
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  Speaker 2: and that's good because Ukraine is founding the you know
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  Speaker 2: what out of the Russians.
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  Speaker 1: They are final fifteen second and so again, just to
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  Speaker 1: wrap this up in a nice little bow, Gordon Chang,
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  Speaker 1: what do you want to see from Trump when he
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  Speaker 1: goes to Beijing on Thursday.
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  Speaker 2: I want Trump to tell the world that there's a
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  Speaker 2: war in Iran because China has transplanted its nuclear weapons
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  Speaker 2: program to Iran. Trump needs to say all this stuff
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  Speaker 2: in public to show that he's not afraid of the Chinese.
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  Speaker 2: He does that, it's a big win for the United States.
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  Speaker 1: Gordon, You're amazing. You know that already. Thank you so
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  Speaker 1: much for hopping on today. I always love having you
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  Speaker 1: on this show. Gordon, Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Sid, I really appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: Paw blessed Gordon Chang, Right, there follow him on Twitter.
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  Speaker 1: Gordon g Gordon G. Chang and another great segment with
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  Speaker 1: Gordon will take a break still to come. As I
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  Speaker 1: mentioned one of the great pictures Atlanta Brave New York
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  Speaker 1: met Tom Glavin, his former skipper for the Atlanta Braves.
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  Speaker 1: Bobby Cox died this weekend. We'll talk to the president
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  Speaker 1: of the dee A, Scott Monroe. Cats will be here too.
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  Speaker 1: The Monday edition of Sid and Friends in the Morning
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  Speaker 1: rolls on.
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