coming up on this episode of the Roundtable.

Look at what China's doing in regard to building planes and then even building, say,

commercial aircraft and not even just militarily.

You know, the Chinese, their own airlines don't want to buy the stuff that China makes,

which is kind of interesting, which says something actually about the strength of China.

I think it really is a paper tiger in so many ways that there's a lot of, there's a lot of

issues buried just right underneath the surface that I think are to come out more and more

and more and I think Trump realizes this.

So I think he's hitting them where it hurts.

And I think he's showing the world what is actually

happening and how weak of a position that they actually have. And then you look at what Trump was

doing with the whole 90 day thing. I mean, that was something I have a feeling. You know, he talked

to a bunch of people, but Bill Ackman's been saying that for a while now. I think for at least a week

that we should do a 90 day pause. Small business owners, especially in the

U.S. are getting hurt. It's not just like about these Wall Street hedge fund managers. I mean,

this is about people who basically make America go. And so some of the chaos, well, understandable

in a negotiating sense, world leaders see that and they don't know how to respond. But the other

problem is what about the people on the other side? Welcome once again to the round, your weekly publishers and editors podcast here at The American Mind.

I'm your host, Spencer Claven, Associate Editor of the Claremont Review of Books and Hungarian

communist mustache editor of the American mind.

We don't do video, but the guys on the chat can see that I've come back from Budapest with what my father called the mustache of the 19th century Eastern European communist, which is a little bit of a roast, but I'm honestly not mad about it as a look,

as long as I don't also come back with the views of the European communist, but actually far

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