Is America’s “One China” Policy Dead?
Making the Argument with Nick Freitas
Nick Freitas
4.4 • 743 Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
The State Department has deleted a key phrase about its stance over Taiwan, and China is outraged. Today, we will discuss a bit of historical context for why China is so upset and what it could mean for the One China policy and US-Chinese relations going forward.
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| 0:00.0 | Look, are we going to go to war with China or not? I mean, that's the question on a lot of people's |
| 0:03.9 | minds right now because it turns out that the State Department has deleted a key phrase |
| 0:08.6 | about our stance over Taiwan. And China is not very happy about it. In fact, China has issued |
| 0:15.9 | something of an ultimatum to Donald Trump. And we all know how well Donald Trump does with ultimatums from |
| 0:21.9 | foreign countries who don't have the same military economic capacity of the United States. |
| 0:26.2 | So it is going to be interesting to see what happens because this kind of falls into one of those |
| 0:30.6 | categories with Donald Trump. Right. There's going to be some people on the right that are |
| 0:33.8 | screaming right now going, why are you saber rattling with China? Why are you making |
| 0:38.0 | an already volatile situation with Taiwan, potentially even more volatile by doing this? |
| 0:43.3 | What's the point of it? And I would argue that the point is we're not sure yet. Because one |
| 0:48.9 | thing I've learned is that when Donald Trump says something, when the Donald Trump administration |
| 0:52.2 | does something that we didn't anticipate, the best thing to do is to usually wait a couple days and to see what actually |
| 0:58.6 | transpires. But this just happened and it's just too interesting to talk about. So today what we |
| 1:03.7 | are going to do is go through. We're going to talk about what the State Department deleted. We're |
| 1:06.8 | going to talk about why it's significant. And we're going to talk about why Taiwan is both |
| 1:11.2 | significant to the CCP as well as being significant to the United States and what it could |
| 1:16.0 | potentially mean for our relationship with China, not just from a trade perspective, but also |
| 1:21.4 | is this something that can potentially lead to hostilities? |
| 1:25.3 | All of that and more coming up on this episode of making the argument. |
| 1:28.2 | I'm your host, Nick Fratis, member of the Virginia House of Delegates, but other than that, |
| 1:32.2 | a reasonably good guy most days. With me in the studio, my beautiful bride, Tina, queen of the |
| 1:37.9 | bees. Hello, everyone. And then of course, we have our resident historian, our political |
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