Welcome to the dispatch podcast. I'm your host Sarah Isger and I've got Mike Warren and

Jonah Goldberg here. We're going to talk about the Asia Pacific Economic

Cooperation Summit that was held in San Francisco this week, why Congress has suddenly turned into the most

pathetic Fight Club in America and whatever else we happen to meander into in the

meantime. Let's dive right in. In August of 2022, Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan. Seems like an okay thing for an American speaker of the House to do, but China got real mad.

And they cut off military to military communications, stopped helping with the fentanyl crisis though let's I mean how

much help were they really giving so this week President Biden and she sat down for several meetings in San Francisco as part of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit.

Many of those things got back on track, the military to military communication, and China's very

ephemeral promise to do more to stem the flow of fentanyl precursors and analogs into Mexico that then pour over the

southern border into the United States and at the end of it all President

Biden appears to have accidentally, though perhaps intentionally, called

Gee a dictator again. Jonah, it feels to me like on the one hand we should make an effort

to avoid another Cold War.

And on the other hand, this doesn't feel like it's going to end any other way

when our American leaders aren't allowed to visit Taiwan without China taking steps that again

like it's very clear that they don't mind poisoning 100,000 Americans a year.

So anytime we do something that they don't like, they're just going to once again say, oh great,

well we're cutting off the military and military communications.

What does an actual win here look like for any administration?

It's a good question.

Thank you for having me.

I think I'm going to do that every time now, like Harold Ford on Special Report.

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