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On demand.

The more the world changes, the more we find comfort in the things that never change.

This is Rabbi Daniel Abin, on demand, on the Blaze Radio Network. Hi, everybody, all of you, faithful listeners of the Rabbi Daniel Lapin show, here is a problem.

There's a country called China. And a couple of years ago, and I'm recording this in the summer of

2017, just after the American President Donald Trump met with Vladimir Putin, and the

progressive establishment is outraged that President Trump

seemed to be much too friendly with President Putin, to such an extent that many of the more

demented on the left argued that clearly Putin must have have something that is holding over Trump to make Trump behave so compliantly.

The progressive establishment is entirely infuriated that President Trump is not declaring war on Russia because they interfered in the 2016 election.

We'll come back to that in just a moment.

But meanwhile, let me draw your attention to another country, a country called China,

a country whose economy is threatening that of the United States, whose military aspirations, which now include building aircraft carriers, one of which is already launched, threatens the United States.

A country called China, whom, you'll pardon the joke, the international tribunal in Europe,

rejected Chinese claims to the South China Sea.

Ooh, I can just imagine how terrified.

Oh, those Chinese mandarins must have been shaking in their boots.

When the European International Court ruled that they didn't have jurisdiction over the China Sea.

So what did they do in the wake of that terrifying and rigorous ruling that they have no rights to the China Sea.

Well, the first thing they did was they went ahead and threatened Vietnam with military action.

If it did not stop offshore oil and gas exploration,

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