The virus that we're talking about having to do, you know, a lot of people think that

goes away in April with the heat as the heat comes in.

Typically that will go away in April.

We're in great shape though.

We're in great shape though.

That was Donald Trump reassuring the American public on February 10, 2020, that the coronavirus

was nothing to worry about.

But where did the President of the United States get the idea that the novel virus would

simply disappear once the warmer weather of spring arrived?

According to Josh Rogan, foreign policy columnist for the Washington Post and author of a new

book chaos under heaven, Trump, Xi, and the battle for the 21st century, it was planted

during a phone call just a few days earlier from the President of China himself.

Xi, Rogan writes, assured the American President that the virus was under control and no threat

to the outside world and would likely go away once the weather got warmer.

Even though his own scientists were telling him something very different, Trump bought

it.

A glaring example of how the Chinese government was able to manipulate our government about

the most pressing threat to the health and welfare of our citizens.

But as Rogan describes it, the Chinese threat to our economy, to our intellectual property,

to our trade, to our national security itself is now the most pressing foreign policy issue

of our time.

We'll talk to Rogan about how he came to that conclusion on this episode of Skullbuggery.

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