Welcome back to PodSafe the world. This is a very special episode. I've been excited about this

week. Me too. We got Ben Root in studio. We also have Danny Russell, former Assistant Secretary of

State for Asia, Asia all around expert, all around great guy, Fend of the Pod in Los Angeles.

Glad to be here. Great to have you, man. Danny's going to ride with us over all of these issues,

but we're going to really dig into some China-specific stuff today. Some North Korea news.

Jared Kushner did an interview on Axios. Some people have heard about. So stay tuned for that.

I think we'll kick it off with President Trump visiting the United Kingdom, who used to be our

closest ally. Let's see what happens after this trip is over. But just some quick housekeeping.

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subscribe. All right, guys. Let's dig in here. So, clockwork orange two was, I think what I call

the second president, President Trump went to the UK. He's the eighth US president to visit the

Queen, but only the third one to get a full state visit. So we should dig into why the hell that

happened. The itineraries largely ceremonial. Lots of time with her majesty, but before Trump

arrived, he was very busy attacking the mayor of London on Twitter. He called Megan Markle Nasty and

then tried to deny it. Then his own staff tweeted out a quote with a caption that showed he called

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