Victor Davis Hanson: Strategy to Trump China on the World Stage

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🗓️ 2 April 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

“ China is ascendant and we are static.” President Donald Trump is right to be worried about China’s trade surplus, military expansion, influence in regions like Panama and the Arctic, and the broader global impact of its rise. Victor Davis Hanson breaks down the reasons why Trump has made maintaining dominance over China a central issue for his administration on this episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.” “He’s worried that China is intimidating countries in the Pacific and in Asia. Some of our strongest friends—Australia, South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, Vietnam. Saying things like, "The United States is in decline. You better cut a deal. “ We don’t look at productivity in stocks but whether they’re politically correct or DEI and woke… The Chinese love it. We will not be competitive.” Link to the full video in the show notes! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.8	I'd like to talk today about China. China. China. It seems to be on Donald Trump's mind.
0:34.7	He's worried about their trade surplus. He's worried
0:38.0	about them sending raw product of fentany. He's worried that China is intimidating
0:43.3	countries in the Pacific and in Asia, some of our strongest friends. So what he's doing is
0:49.1	in all these areas is identifying the threat that China poses and why we, with an open, transparent, and capitalist society can guarantee our premiums if we make changes.
0:59.0	If we're going to do this, we have to have trade parity. We can't keep running up a trillion, a trillion a half dollars in trade surplus.
1:05.0	China is ascendant and we are static.
1:08.0	Trump comes in and he says, right right now we still have the lead and we
1:12.9	will maintain this lead. But if we continue down the trajectory we're on, we're going to be in big trouble.
1:32.3	Hello, this is Victor Davis Hansen for The Daily Signal. I'd like to talk today about China.
1:34.3	It seems to be on everybody's mind, but explicitly on Donald Trump's mind.
1:39.3	That's the one common denominator that explains his interest on Panama and not to turn over our key transit from
1:47.0	east to west coast to China. China has no business there. And same thing with Greenland. He's
1:52.3	worried about the Chinese having access to the Arctic Circle. He's worried about their trade
1:58.0	surplus. He's worried about circumventing unfair trade by assembling
2:04.2	their products in Mexico. He's worried about them sending raw product of fentanyl. He's worried
2:11.1	about their surrogates, the sort of mad pit bulls like North Korea and increasingly Iran, that
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