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This is Deep State Radio.

This is Deep State Radio.

Coming to you direct from our super secret studio in the third sub-basement of the Ministry of

Snark in Washington, D.C. and from other undisclosed locations across America and around the world.

Hello and welcome to another episode of Deep State Radio. I am David Rothkove, your host, and I am in Beijing, China.

Also joining us on this episode, and a Fyfield of the Washington Post, who is in Tokyo, Japan, and Ed Luce of the Financial Times, who is in Washington, D.C., as is Rosa Brooks of Georgetown University.

And as we go around the world, Brooks of Georgetown University.

And as we go around the world and talk about the big trends,

obviously, as we discussed in the last episode,

a lot of the focus is on North Korea, but North Korea is a piece of the puzzle. It's a dramatic situation. Obviously, the prospect of nuclear war drew it into everybody's focus, but North

Korea is a small country with a tiny economy, some regional impact, a desire to be seen as a global player.

But of much greater consequence, of course, is the rise of China as a power and the United States doesn't really seem to know how to respond to that rise,

except that periodically

Donald Trump will say that she's in ping is his friend, his best friend.

Donald Trump said that his visit to Beijing China was the

best reception any other leader had ever gotten in China in the 5,000 year history of China.

He didn't say 5,000 years because I don't think he knows that it's 5,000 years, but he said he had the best reception.

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