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🗓️ 1 May 2024
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0:00.0 | All right, Alexander, let's talk about the Blinken trip to China. |
0:07.2 | And maybe we can start at Blinken's sendoff from China, his final day in China, a video that went viral of Xi Jinping waiting for Blinken. |
0:19.7 | It seems that Blinken got delayed and Xi Jinping had to wait for him. |
0:25.0 | And Xi Jinping is looking at his watch, pacing back and forth. And he asks one of his aides off camera, |
0:32.6 | when is this guy leaving, something like that. And then we had reports that Blinken was not escorted by any |
0:40.5 | Chinese officials to the airport, though I have read reports claiming that China did indeed send |
0:47.0 | a foreign ministry official with Blinken to the airport. So there are some reports that claim |
0:53.8 | only the U.S. ambassador accompanied Blinkin to the airport, but there are some reports that claim only the U.S. ambassador accompanied |
0:55.4 | blink into the airport, but I have seen reports which claim that China did have a foreign |
0:59.3 | ministry official escort blinking along with the U.S. ambassador to the airport. Anyway, |
1:05.5 | I don't think that's very important. The tone of the Chinese, especially on the final day, towards Blinken, |
1:14.9 | I believe, says a lot. And it probably says a lot with regards to just the general feeling from |
1:23.4 | countries outside of the collective West towards the U.S. is foreign policy department or |
1:30.5 | team, the way they conduct diplomacy. I think it has a lot of countries very put off by it. |
1:38.2 | Absolutely. I think. Absolutely. And I mean, we've discussed what happened over Blinken's visit to China, the fact that he gave this ultimatum to the Chinese to stop supporting the Russian war economy. |
1:53.9 | And the Chinese said, no, they're not going to structure their economic relations with third countries according to |
2:03.4 | what the United States wants and that they're going to go on trading in a normal way with Russia, |
2:08.7 | as they have been doing. I think that's going to change, by the way. We've also seen Lincoln |
2:15.2 | bringing up the so-called overcapacity issue, which is when you actually |
2:20.4 | read American comments carefully, basically saying that China's economy is too big. That's what |
2:27.0 | they're now basically saying when you feel it down, the China has too big an economy. It must |
2:33.6 | arrange somehow to make its economy |
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