For many years, I would ask the question, why would Nixon help China become a behemoth in 1971, 1972? Why would you have Kissinger fake? He's sick. Pakistan goes to China. Brokers a deal on the way back in India. He gets sick so he can fool everybody else and all of a sudden. The deal gets done. But at the time, who was their enemy? It wasn't China. China was barely a top 10 economy in the world.

Nobody woke up in the morning worrying about what China was going to do.

But there was another country called USSR that was a behemoth.

And Nixon and Kissinger used an old idea from Otto von Bismarck, the previous chancellor in Germany in the 1800s,

while he is not the biggest

country in the world, not militarily, nor GDP, but he used this triangular diplomacy to decide

how to get along and work with France when they were the enemy, Italy, Austria, all these

guys, and he was able to pull it off. Kissinger brought it up. However, that may have been a good decision in the 70s, but that has cost us a lot of issues

today because China is now a behemoth and President Trump is trying to decide who is a better

ally today.

Does he side with China?

Does he side with Russia?

We're going to talk about that today.

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Having said that, let's get right into it.

Two key words for this triangular diplomacy to work. But before we do that, many times when you

think about, well, Pat, wouldn't it be awesome if U.S. got along with China and with Russia, and we all

did business together. China does business with U.S., you know, Russia does business with U.S., and Russia and China did business together. China does business with US. You know, Russia does business with US and Russia and China do business together and it's Utopia. Wouldn't you want that? Wouldn't that be awesome? Nope, this wouldn't work because there's two things you need for you to be able to drive and move. We're going to talk about those two T words at the end. This next one is where some may say, well, it wouldn't be great if US has great relationship with China, we're doing business with them. Russia's doing business with us, we're doing business with them, but China and Russia don't get along. This is also tough to do because they need each other for oil, business, their neighbors. They have to find a way to do something together, right?

Number three is what? U.S. has a good relationship with China, bad with Russia, and China's bad with Russia.

That's ideal. You pick and choose one side. The other one is, U.S. has a good relationship with Russia,

bad with China, and China and Russia don't have the advantage, so you're able to leverage one of the relationships to get this person to work with you on things that you need

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