Preview: Colleague Chris Riegel Comments That the Game of Chicken, POTUS vs PRC, Does Not Favor Xi. More
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 25 April 2025
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Batchel. Colleague, Chris Regal, comments on the Chinese factory floor, now emptying because of the tariffs. |
| 0:10.2 | And what does that mean before Sri Jinping and Donald Trump? Chris describes it as a game of chicken. |
| 0:18.8 | It's a big game and little workers in China are out of luck. More of this tonight. |
| 0:26.1 | Here's Chris. No, John, the party drives the behavior and you're not allowed to officially |
| 0:33.5 | question that action or behavior. I think if you say that Mr. Xi and Mr. Trump are in a world-class |
| 0:41.8 | game of chicken, I would tend to think that Mr. Xi will have more motivation to blink because he is the one who is under greater and greater and greater pressure by the hour by the minute. |
| 0:53.7 | Ultimately, while China is a communist country, |
| 0:56.3 | some of the best capitalists in the world are right there, |
| 0:58.8 | and the pressure to remove this tariff, |
| 1:01.9 | the pressure to give back to business is intense |
| 1:04.6 | and probably not something he can withstand. |
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