Tuesday, October 28, 2025
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 28 October 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
On today’s edition of The Briefing, Dr. Mohler discusses President Trump’s visit to Asia and the worldview issues behind trade, why a welfare state won’t solve the falling birth rate problem, and skin cell reproduction as an assault on motherhood.
Part I (00:14 – 12:08)
Trade and the Relationship Between Nations: President Trump’s Visit to Asia and the Worldview Issues Behind Trade
- Asia, Caught in the Middle, Faces Trump and Xi’s Tug of War by The New York Times (David Pierson)
The Welfare State and Falling Birth Rates: Finland’s Population Decline Shows Poverty is Not the Best Explanation
- Finland’s stubbornly low birth rate shows why a population shift may be inevitable by NPR (Sarah McCammon)
Reproduction by Skin Cell and the Death of Motherhood: This New Reproductive Technology is an Assault on Motherhood
- The elimination of motherhood by The Spectator (Mary Wingfield)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, October 28, 2025. I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. For all of human history, trade has been one of the most important dynamics when it comes to human interaction. And it's for that reason that President |
| 0:21.9 | Donald J. Trump is in Asia. He's attempting to bring about through personal diplomacy and a good |
| 0:27.9 | deal of American foreign policy presence. He's hoping to reset the trade equation. Now, of course, |
| 0:33.6 | he's a part of upsetting the trade equation, and he's done so quite deliberately in terms of a system of tariffs. The most immediate issue when it comes to the bilateral |
| 0:42.6 | relationship is between the United States and China, just given the size of the economies |
| 0:47.3 | and the issues that are at stake. And so it is really interesting that as the president is in |
| 0:53.1 | Asia, it all underlines the importance |
| 0:55.5 | for the United States and for just about every other country on the planet when it comes |
| 1:00.9 | to trade. |
| 1:01.9 | The New York Times ran a headline, Asia caught in middle of U.S. rivalry with China. |
| 1:06.3 | David Pearson's the reporter. |
| 1:08.3 | And as he tells us, even as President Trump is visiting the region, |
| 1:11.7 | the two superpowers, the United States and China, are attempting to influence trade, not just |
| 1:17.8 | when it comes to a bilateral transaction between the United States and China, but when it |
| 1:22.2 | comes to all the other nations of Asia as well. Now, what is the reset that's going on here, or the reset that is threatened? |
| 1:29.5 | The United States and our allies have been united in a system of trade, and that system of trade |
| 1:37.0 | now also includes China, but China is creating a lot of disequilibrium in that system, and it is because |
| 1:43.7 | China intends to be the dominant partner. China intends to be the dominant partner. |
| 1:46.8 | China intends to be the dominant power when it comes to world trade. |
| 1:50.9 | So what the New York Times is pointing to is the fact that even as Asia is really the target |
| 1:56.4 | of the entire presidential visit and the president hopes to have multilateral agreements or bilateral |
| 2:03.2 | agreements with multiple partners. |
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