Welcome back to America first with our very special guest, Uncle Jimbo, it's Jim Hansen.

Hey folks, happy to be sitting in Seb's chair while he's down at Fort Bragg talking

to our special operators.

But I am actually happy and sad to be joined by Gordon Chang because the fact that he's

joining us is a sign that once again, China is doing things that we're doing badly to

counter.

I want to make sure you follow him on Twitter at Gordon G. Chang and his book The Coming

Collapse of China cannot come soon enough.

Welcome to the show Gordon.

Thank you so much Jim.

Well look, I think there's plenty.

I want to start off in the less obvious of the two really bad things that happened recently.

But China managed to get a deal done between our enemy Iran and our somewhat ally, the

Saudis, for a rejuvenation of diplomatic ties between those two countries.

This is barely two years after the Trump administration managed to get a couple Gulf

Arab states to sign deals with the Israelis to increase relations.

Have we really flipped that far that the U.S. is no longer a power broker in the Middle

East and the Chinese are there too?

Yes, actually America's Middle East policy under the Trump years was like the best since

FDR, but Biden's is clearly the worst ever.

And we're seeing that because as you mentioned, Saudi Arabia was a firm friend with the

United States, was supporting our efforts.

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