Welcome to the No Spin News Weekend Edition.

I spoke with President Trump yesterday Sunday, and that is the subject of this evening's

talking points memo.

So as you remember, I was in Beijing about a year ago, and I went there at the request of the Chinese government to talk

about America-Chinese relationships. And I debriefed President Trump, both coming and going.

So now we're in another cycle, which is more complicated than it was one year ago,

that's for sure. It is, I don't know really what the word is As complicated is underestimating is extremely difficult.

So let me run it down.

China needs America, no doubt about it, because China's economy is built on exports.

People buy Chinese stuff in America and all over.

And if the USA isn't buying Chinese stuff to the extent that it used to then the Chinese economy is going to wobble got 1.5 billion people over there

to feed okay so they want a trade deal. What we want is help with Iran now.

A year ago was with Putin. Okay. Now that situation in Ukraine is pretty much ground or halt.

We need help with Iran because they're totally irrational. Iran sells China an enormous amount of oil. If China did not buy that

oil, Iran's economy, which is on a verge of collapse anyway, would go under.

So I expect, although the president did not tell me directly, that the offer will be, look, will take care of your oil oil needs, the USA, but you got to get away from

Iran. You can't be helping them out. And you've got to try to convince them to give up their nukes.

Okay. It's not going to be easy because China's going to come back with, and I know this to be true, well, we'll do it,

but you got to dump Taiwan. You can't be defending Taiwan anymore. Now, Taiwan is a very

difficult situation. We've gone on since 1949. You can look it up if you'd like to.

But the United States and pretty much every other free country

does not want the Chinese taking over Taiwan.

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