The Growing Tension Between The U.S. and China

The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

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4.1 • 738 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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The Trump administration's efforts to reorder the trade imbalance have led to a pressure campaign featuring 145% tariffs on China. Beijing has responded with an increase in tariffs on U.S. goods as well as halting the export of rare earth minerals. FOX News Channel's chief national security correspondent, Jennifer Griffin, explains what the U.S. is doing to be militarily ready to compete with China. She describes the strategic importance of Taiwan and other regional partnerships, all while Chinese leader Xi Jinping looks to shore up his own alliances. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.9	welcome to Welcome to The Untold Story Podcast.
0:43.5	I'm Martha McCallum.
0:44.7	It's great to have you with us today.
0:46.8	One of the great things about The Untold Story podcast is that it gives us an opportunity
0:51.2	to dig in a little bit deeper with some of the guests that we have on the story into some of the biggest issues right now.
0:58.0	And there's just so much going on around the world with tariffs and border issues and geopolitics that are changing by the moment.
1:07.0	So I'm very happy to have two guests with me today, who you'll hear first my discussion with Jennifer Griffin about the geopolitical side, the military side of the challenge with China.
1:19.6	And then we'll talk a little bit about the economy and political side with Michael Pillsbury in just a few moments.
1:26.6	So Jennifer Griffin, welcome. It's great to have you with us today.
1:30.2	Thank you, Martha. So for those of you who don't know, Jennifer is our chief national security correspondent for Fox News. She has been with us since October of 1999.
1:41.9	She was the Jerusalem-based correspondent, and she was in Moscow for several years as well
1:47.2	for us, and she is our expert on the Pentagon, on all things military. She has been in war zones
1:54.1	around the world and is our absolute top expert on these issues. So, Jennifer, it's great to have you
2:00.2	with us today. Thank you, Martha.
2:01.9	Thank you. So let's talk about the confrontation that is growing more tense all the time with China.
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