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This is John Batchel, an exchange between my two colleagues, Gordon Chang and Alan Tonneson, about the question of the tariff wars,

especially the tariff wars involving what seemed to be leverage of rare earths, China making threats,

now amended to be delayed a year of cutting off the U.S. and its trading partners of rare earth necessary for the economy.

Gordon looks at who started it and when did it start,

and Alan Tonelson, our trade guru, responds accordingly.

Much to learn about the origins of the Chinese aggression, predatory aggression when it comes to trade.

Gordon Chang, Alan Toddelson, the comments about China's practices since the late 20th century.

When they joined the WTO, I believe at the beginning of this century.

Much more of this tonight.

You know, John just talked about who started all of this.

My sense is that, and this is a discussion that Chinese propagandists are now raising in various forums.

My sense is that China for decades has been engaged in predatory and criminal trade practices

and that finally we have a president who decided to do something about it.

And so my sense is that if this was not a problem that Trump created, this was a problem that China

created a long time ago.

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