Winston Lord
Appearances
Up First from NPR
BONUS: America's Shifting Alliances
Now, those who are apologists for Trump say, well, maybe what he's trying to do is a reverse Nixon-Kissinger, namely to pry Moscow away from Beijing when they've gotten closer and closer.
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BONUS: America's Shifting Alliances
I think Trump has done more damage to America's position in the world, not even mentioning what he's doing to our democracy at home in one month, then decades of Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Just take what's going to happen in Asia if this continues. China and North Korea are delighted at what's going on. If he can sell out Ukraine, he could easily sell out Taiwan.
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BONUS: America's Shifting Alliances
So it is... premature to conclude conclusively what it's going to do about China and Taiwan. And so it'd be interesting to see how Trump's instinct to suck up to dictators and with people like Xi and to forget about commitments and just worry about our own transactional economic interests comes up against the hawks in the administration. But I must say that
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BONUS: America's Shifting Alliances
Given the fact that he's made comments on Taiwan taking advantage of us, making the point they're far away, they ought to do more for their own defense. I'd be apprehensive if I were in Taiwan.
Up First from NPR
BONUS: America's Shifting Alliances
With astonishment and they're appalled. If this trend continues, no one can depend on the United States under Trump to come to their defense anymore. There could be a real drift toward either accommodating China because they don't have America as a deterrent or going after their own nuclear weapons. It's a disaster for Asia as well as Europe.