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#StateThinking: Xi and Putin and Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas.@MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State. Executive VP Stephens Inc.

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🗓️ 12 October 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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#StateThinking: Xi and Putin and Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas.@MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State. Executive VP Stephens Inc.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/10/10/china-israel-hamas-war-palestine-xi-jinping/

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0:35.2

I'm John Baxter with Merrick Kissle, executive vice president, Stevenson

0:38.7

cooperated former senior advisor to the secretary of state. The Taiwan Ambassador to France,

0:45.0

Francois Wu, has remarked that he's concerned about China launching a third front during the

0:52.4

wars in Europe and the Middle East at the same time. He does not believe it's likely to happen,

0:57.8

but he's worried about it and now Taiwan is constantly worried about it. Xi Jinping threats

1:02.8

to Taiwan have continued. So far, the way it's been characterized to me is that his response to

1:09.3

the outrage in Israel has been muted. The puzzle here is Putin is on his way to Xi Jinping.

1:18.4

Xi Jinping has a working trading relationship with Iran for oil and armaments flowing

1:25.5

to and from Iran. Iran is understood as a sponsor, as a director, as a funder for the bad acts

1:32.9

we've been discussing these days. What is China's responsibility? Mary, the puzzle here is the

1:38.7

state department continued to treat China as a troubled trading partner. How do we approach this

1:46.1

knowing that President Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party,

1:52.2

is said to right now be scheduled into severed Cisco to meet with our president in these next weeks?

1:59.9

It's a mistake. We shouldn't give the General Secretary a platform within the United States

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