Fareed Zakaria is Out Front now, the host of Fareed Zakaria GPS. Will and I on the show together go to bars and tone in China, most of the time they censor them. They did not censor this. a potential invasion of Taiwan, general saying that they are not, practicing, that they are they are literally rehearsing. and they don't censor it. What is really at stake here tonight? These are the highest stakes. And the Trump administration The greatest deterrent to a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, you know, decisive ripples through the world economy, through the international The greatest deterrent was not any weapon It was the fear that China had that from the American economy. The economy with which they had interdependent relationship. pointlessly, without a plan, that the tariffs on China simply because he wanted to save face. flopping on all the other tariffs. So he needed to turn China into the into his punching bag. what he has done is play into China's waiting for this decoupling. They practiced it during Covid. during the Shanghai lockdown. they're going to say is, look, off from the American market. stunning to consider that this may be where this goes. the path from tariffs to war. this will really, you know, that the Foreign Ministry recently posted on this post, Fareed, has now 13 million views. during the Korean War era? Now, that is the last time were actually at physical war clashing on a battlefield, right? And he says in part, Mao, And that is trending now in China. into what you're talking about, but but the symbolism here is so culturally significant that every schoolchild is is that China was forced and humiliated including the United States, and a kind of neocolonial arrangement And the message of Chinese history is never yield like that again. We will never allow ourselves to be put in a position like that. have a fairly strong hand. the United States imports from China. to chemical, you know, pharmacy drugs, minerals, these are all core things, I think I saw one, one, one number that said 60% of the chips. We, we import our Chinese chips. It's not going to be easy to find it earth all over the world. the Chinese, on the other hand, a lot of what they get from us agriculture, soybeans, things like that they can get from elsewhere. And most importantly, don't forget, in quite the same way that Donald Trump No, you also just came out and you talk about the tariffs. you write about your own context on it. a country obviously riddled with tariffs could survive of any size, handout you were getting or who It was just it was corruption. I was thrilled to see that most businesses went about their work who was in the white House. But now I watch tech pioneers slavishly extolling Trump's genius and Wall Street titans race to post North Korea style. Congratulations to the president And I wonder what country am I living in? You know, how significant is this moment for you, Fred, It's a very sad moment, honestly, because to me, you know, as a kid coming, coming to America, you know, the city on the hill, of how a modern economy should work. You have a market, you have rules. You know, everybody plays by them. It doesn't matter whether you know, the the Prime minister, the president, What was important was the merit. Did you have a good product? Could you sell it to people? at the orgy of corruption that is going to be unleashed. from the first Trump term, Republicans got more exemptions than firms that gave money to Democrats. the Trump, organizations project. Real estate projects are being signed with the Trump Organization right now. You know, all of it says to you where political favor, knowing people, all that has become the key, not the market, which was the glory of American, of the of America, All right. Fareed, thank you very much. And I just want to show everyone what is on screen right now in China as this report aired, as I said, when Fareed was talking about Mao Zedong and we had that particular part of the conversation, for the rest of the conversation. Will please report all of that. just to emphasize the closeness with which they are watching. This and making these decisions. So the part about invading Taiwan, that to go out there now, it was censored, obviously, during the Mao Zedong comments. |
