Act now.
PETE: THE FIRST FACE-TO-FACE
MEETING BETWEEN US AND COMMUNIST
CHINESE OFFICIALS UNDER THE
BIDEN ADMINISTRATION OUT THE
HOSTILE START WITH TWO SIDES
CLASHING OVER CYBER SECURITY AND
HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES AND
ULTIMATELY POWER BUT EVEN BEFORE
THE SUMMIT BEGAN THE CHINESE
AMBASSADOR PREDICTED IT WOULD BE
TENSE SAYING, QUOTE, IF ANYONE
BELIEVES THE CHINESE DELEGATION
TRAVELS TO ALASKA A JUST TO GIVE
IN A AND MAKE COMPROMISES I
SUGGEST MY COLLEAGUES IN BEIJING
CANCEL THEIR TRIP.
I HOPE PEOPLE WITH SUCH
UNBELIEVABLE DISCARD THEIR
ILLUSIONS. LET’S BRING IN RETIRED 4-STAR
LET’S BRING IN RETIRED 4-STAR
GENERAL JACK KEANE.
WHAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY VERY
INDICATIVE, SIGNIFICANCE,
OPENING STATEMENTS WERE SUPPOSED
TO BE BRIEF.
INSTEAD THEY WENT ON FOR AN
HOUR, BOTH SIDES POINTING FINGER
THAT THE OTHER SAYING YOU ARE
THE PROBLEM.
THIS A SIGN OF TWO POWERS BOTH
OF WHICH THINK FACING OFF,
WHAT DO YOU TAKE FROM WHAT
HAPPENED?
>> THIS IS A NEW ADMINISTRATION
HAVING THE INITIAL TALKS WITH
CHINA AND PRESIDENT XI HAS BEEN
IN POWER 8 OR 9 YEARS.
WHAT WE HAVE IS THESE ARE THE
TWO MAJOR POWERS IN THE WORLD
AND WERE DEFINITELY DECLARED
ADVERSARIES WITH EACH OTHER IN
THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION
CRITICAL FOR THEM TO STAKE OUT
THEIR POSITIONS.
IT IS INTERESTING, SIGNIFICANT
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE BIDEN
ADMINISTRATION AND THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION IN TERMS OF
DOMESTIC POLICY, DEVELOPING
POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST WHICH
SEEMS TO BE A VARIANT FROM
TRUMP, THERE IS SIGNIFICANT
CONTINUITY HERE WHICH IS
ENCOURAGING.
NOT PERFECT BY ANY MEANS BUT
THEY HAVE TAKEN IN PRINCIPLE
TRUMP’S TOUGH STAND AGAINST
CHINA AND SPECIFICS SUPPORT
THAT.
THEY ARE AGREEING WITH TRUMP’S
TRADE DEAL WITH THE SANCTIONS,
THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION
INCREASED SANCTIONS ON 24
CHINESE OFFICIALS, THEY PUSHED
BACK ON CHINA’S CRUSHING HONG
KONG’S DEMOCRACY, ON CHINA’S
GENOCIDE CAMPAIGN AND THE
INTIMIDATION AND COERCION OF
TAIWAN SPECIFICALLY BUT THE
OTHER ALLIES IN THE REGION AND
MILITARY EXPANSION IN THE SOUTH
CHINA SEA AND MUCH MORE AT HOME,
CHINA’S MASSIVE CYBERESPIONAGE
CAMPAIGN TO STEAL OUR
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, STEEL OUR SECRETS, UNDERMINE DEMOCRACY.
SECRETS, UNDERMINE DEMOCRACY.
THEY ARE COMING ON FULL THROTTLE
IN ALL OF THIS AND STAKING OUT US POSITIONS.
US POSITIONS.
I HOPE TODAY THEY TAKE ON CHINA
OVER COVID BECAUSE WE NEED AN
INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION, WE
HAVE A RIGHT TO CALL FOR THAT.
THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY
WOULD SUPPORT IT, LITTLE
SUBTERFUGE WITH WHAT IS GOING ON
WITH THE WHO INSPECTION SEVERAL
WEEKS AGO BECAUSE THEY HAD THE
INSPECTION TEAM, CHINESE
SCIENTISTS INVESTIGATING AS WELL
AND DISCARDED THE CREDIBILITY OF
IT SO THIS IS A GOOD FIRST STEP
IN MY BOOK, IT REMAINS TO BE
SEEN.
THIS IS MORE TALK THAN ACTION.
WE’VE SEEN IN THE PREVIOUS OBAMA
ADMINISTRATION A LOT OF STRONG TALK BUT CARRIED VERY LITTLE
TALK BUT CARRIED VERY LITTLE
STICKS, NOT MUCH ACTION IN TERMS
OF PUSHING BACK ON ADVERSARIES.
THAT IS A LINGERING CONCERN,
MOST OF US OBSERVERS, WHERE THIS
ADMINISTRATION WILL GO BUT AS OF
RIGHT NOW THEY ARE STANDING UP
TO CHINA THE WAY THEY SHOULD BE
STANDING UP TO THEM AND
HOPEFULLY THE ACTIONS WILL
FOLLOW THE RHETORIC.
PETE: THAT IS WHAT AGING WILL
PAY ATTENTION TO BUT FROM ONE
DICTATOR TO ANOTHER, VLADIMIR
PUTIN ON WEDNESDAY ON ABC
PRESIDENT BIDEN CALLED HIM A
KILLER.
IN RESPONSE TO THAT VLADIMIR
PUTIN WISHED JOE BIDEN GOOD
HEALTH AND CHALLENGED THE
PRESIDENT TO A LIVE DISCUSSION.
IS THIS VLADIMIR PUTIN’S -- IS
THIS INDICATIVE OF THE RELATIONSHIP THEY WILL HAVE?
RELATIONSHIP THEY WILL HAVE?
>> IT IS FAIRLY HUMOROUS MYSELF.
THE PUBLIC POLICY FORMULATION,
BIDEN IS RESPONDING TO A LEADING
QUESTION, IS LETTER MEN A
KILLER, MOST OF US BELIEVE HE
IS, WE GOT AN HONEST STATEMENT
BUT IT IS NOT POLICY
FORMULATION.
HOW WE THINK ABOUT VLADIMIR
PUTIN, VLADIMIR PUTIN’S RESPONSE
IS SARCASTIC, CALLING OUT BIDEN
IN A DEBATE.
HERE IS THE OTHER ISSUE.
THE PREVIOUS OBAMA
ADMINISTRATION ALWAYS TALKED
TOUGH WITH RUSSIA AND THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION DID NOT TALK
TOUGH WITH PUTIN BUT THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION WAS TOUGH ON
PUBLIC POLICY FORMULATION
AGAINST RUSSIA’S EXPANSION.
REMAINS TO BE SEEN THEY ARE
GOING TO STAND UP TO PUTIN AND
RUSSIA THE WAY THEY ARE
BEGINNING TO STAND UP AGAINST
CHINA AND THAT IS SOMETHING WE
HAVE TO WATCH AND WAIT FOR.
PUTIN HAS ALWAYS BELIEVED HE WAS
INSIDE OBAMA’S HEAD AND HAD HIS
WAY WITH HIM AND THERE’S
EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT IT.
I THINK PUTIN THINGS HE CAN DO