NUMBERS COME OUT.
THANK YOU SO MUCH.
WE ARE TACKLING CHINA RIGHT NOW.
JUST SECRETARY OF STATE U.S.
ANTONY BLINKEN STRESSING NEED
FOR RULES-BASE INTERNATIONAL
ORDER OF G7 FOREIGN MINISTERS IN BRITAIN.
LEAD - UP TO THE G7, FRIDAY UN
SECURITY SUMMIT.
TALKS WERE HAPPENING IN ALASKA.
WE ALL KNOW WHEN THE U.S. GOOD
SCHOOLED BY THE CHINA IN ALASKA.
JOINING US RIGHT NOW FOX NEWS
SENIOR STRATEGIST ANALYST JACK
KEANE.
GENERAL, ALWAYS A PLEASURE,
THANKS FOR BEING HERE.
THINGS ARE GETTING, BUBBLING UP
BETWEEN THE U.S. AND CHINA AT A
TIME THAT YOU GOT THE AMBASSADOR
OF CHINA SAYING THERE’S NO WAY
TAIWAN SHOULD BE AT THE G7 -- AS
A REPRESENTATION OF ITS OWN
COUNTRY, TAIWAN.
YOUR THOUGHTS?
JACK: FIRST OF ALL, YES, CHINA
IS A THREAT AND ACCEPTED
WORLDWIDE.
IT’S A CONSENSUS CERTAINLY IN
THE UNITED STATES REPRESENTED IN
THE BODY OF THE CONGRESS AS
WELL.
WHAT’S HAPPENING HERE.
FOREIGN MINISTER WANG IS HOLDING
THE MEETING AS THE MONTHLY HEAD
OF THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL AND
HE’S INVITED HIS FELLOW FOREIGN
MINISTERS TO ATTEND THE MEETING
AS OPPOSED TO JUST THE UN
AMBASSADOR.
AND WHAT IS REALLY TAKING PLACE
-- THIS WOULD BE A MAJOR
PROPAGANDA UNDERTAKING FOR THE
CHINESE BECAUSE PRESIDENT XI,
MARIA, IS FACING MORE
INTERNATIONAL HEADWINDS AFTER
BEING IN POWER FOR 8 YEARS THAN
HE’S EVER ENCOUNTERED.
AND WHAT DOES THAT DO FOR -- WHY
IS IT TAKING PLACE?
THE PANDEMIC, FOR SURE.
THE REPRESSION AT HOME WITH THE UIGHURS, CRUSHING HONG KONG,
UIGHURS, CRUSHING HONG KONG,
MILITARY CRACK-DOWN IN MIRAMAR
AND COERCION IN THE INDO-PACIFIC
SPECIFICALLY AND WANG WANTS TO
USE THIS MEETING AS THEIR
COMMITMENT TO INTERNATIONAL
PEACE AND STABILITY, GLOBAL
COOPERATION USING THE UN AS THE
VEHICLE FOR THAT AND TALK ABOUT
HOW THEY ARE PARTICIPATING IN
ALL OF THIS AND HOW THERE ARE
STRONG SUPPORTERS IN ALL OF THAT
AND RESPECT AN INTERNATIONAL
LAW, ET CETERA.
WHILE THEY ARE OUT THERE
VIOLATING ALL OF IT.
THIS IS SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED
ROUTINELY IN THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION.
THE CHINESE TALK AND COOPERATE
AT ALL THE MEETINGS THAT THEY
HAD AND FINALLY SECRETARY POMPEO
AND OTHERS GOT FED UP WITH ALL
OF IT.
AT MEETINGS THEY TALKED NICE BUT
THEY GO OUT AND PLAY ROGUE AND
IT’S HYPOCRISY.
YOU HAVE TO CALL THEM OUT ON THE
HYPOCRISY.
IT’S INTERESTING TO SEE IF WE DO
THAT OR WE PLACE NICE AND
COOPERATE WITH THEM AND JUST
LISTEN TO THE PROPAGANDA THAT’S
COMING OUT OF THEIR MOUTH.
IT’LL BE INTERESTING TO SEE.
BUT CHINA IS GETTING
INTERNATIONAL PUSHBACK AND
THAT’S -- THAT IS A GOOD THING.
WE ARE TRYING TO AVOID CONFLICT
AND THE BEST WAY TO AVOID
CONFLICT IS TO SHOW CHINA
THERE’S RESISTANCE TO AGGRESSION
AND REPRESSION.
MARIA: YEAH, ONE SOURCE WROTE TO
ME, THEY ARE SUCKERING US BACK
TO THE CYCLE OF DIALOGUE WHICH
ALLOWS US TO PRETEND WE ARE
MAKING PROGRESS WHILE WE PUSH
FORWARD TO THIS -- AUTHORITARIAN
LEADERSHIP AND VISION.
SORRY.
HAVING A HARD TIME WITH THAT
WORD BUT I WANT TO GET TO IRAN
WHILE I HAVE YOU, GENERAL,
BECAUSE WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF
STAFF RON KLEIN IS DENYING A
REPORT FROM TEHRAN-STATE
TELEVISION THAT IS THE U.S. HAS
AGREED TO A HOSTAGE RELEASE,
OKAY, SO YOU’VE GOT THE ISSUE
BURSTING INTO PUBLIC VIEW AFTER
A REPORT IN IRAN OF A DEAL THAT
IRAN IS GOING TO RELEASE U.S.
AND BRITISH PRISONERS IN
EXCHANGE FOR TEHRAN RECEIVING
BILLIONS OF DOLLARS.
THE U.S. OFFICIALS, RON KLEIN
DENYING THE REPORT.
WHERE THERE’S SMOKE THERE’S
FIRE.
IS THERE A DEAL AFOOT?
JACK: WELL, THE SMOKE CERTAINLY
COMES FROM THE FACT THAT IN THE
OBAMA ADMINISTRATION THEY DID
EXACTLY THAT, YOU KNOW, AS A
RESULT OF THE 2015 NUCLEAR DEAL.
GARBAGE BAGS OF MONEY FOR
RELEASE OF HOSTAGES, SO THAT’S
THE PATTERN HERE.
IT’S LIKELY BEING DISCUSSED, I
THINK.
I CERTAINLY BELIEVE THE
ADMINISTRATION WHEN THEY COME
OUT AND SAY THERE HAS BEEN NO
DECISION AND THAT REPORT THAT
THERE’S BEING MONEY EXCHANGED
FOR HOSTAGE RELEASE IS A FALSE
REPORT.
I’M HOPING IT’S ON THE TABLE
CERTAINLY.
THAT SHOULD BE ONE OF THE
CONDITIONS GOING FORWARD IN THE
NUCLEAR DEAL S THE RELEASE OF
THE AMERICANS WHO ARE BEING HELD
HOSTAGE IN IRAN PLUS A LOT OF
OTHER THINGS CERTAINLY HAVE TO
BE ON THE TABLE.
I TAKE THAT REPORT OUT OF THE
WHITE HOUSE AT FACE VALUE.
MARIA: OKAY.
BUT EVEN AFTER THE -- THE DENIAL
BY THE WHITE HOUSE,
IRANIAN-STATE TV STILL REPEATED
THE ANNOUNCEMENT AND SAID SOME
SOURCES SAY 4 IRANIAN PRISONERS
ARE TO BE RELEASED AND
$7 BILLION WILL BE RECEIVED BY
IRAN IN EXCHANGE FOR RELEASING 4
AMERICAN SPIES.
YOU CAN’T TRUST IRAN.
YOU TRUST THEM AS MUCH AS YOU
TRUST THE CHINA LEADERSHIP
THERE.
LOOK, I DON’T UNDERSTAND WHY
PRESIDENT BIDEN KEEPS CALLING
CHINA A COMPETITOR.
GENERAL, OF COURSE, THEY ARE A
COMPETITOR BUT AREN’T THEY AN
ADVERSARY?
SHOULDN’T JOE BIDEN SHOULD START
CALLING OUT CHINA FOR WHAT IT
IS?
IT’S AN ADVERSARY, IT’S NOT A
COMPETITOR.
JACK: I CERTAINLY BELIEVE IT’S
AN ADVERSARY.
I THINK THE WAY BLINKEN,
SULLIVAN AND PRESIDENT BIDEN
WOULD CHARACTERIZE IT CHINA IS A
COUNTRY THAT YOU COOPERATE WITH
WHEN IT’S POSSIBLE AND YOU
COMPETE WITH ALL OF THE TIME AND
IS AN ADVERSARY AND CONFRONT
THEM WHEN THEY BECOME AN
ADVERSARY AND BEHAVIOR IS
ADVERSARY.
THEY WANT TO REPLACE THE UNITED
STATES AS YOU SAID SO MANY TIMES
ON THE SHOW AS THE INTERNATIONAL
WORLD LEADER AND DOMINATE AND
CONTROL THE INDO-PACIFIC REGION
AND THAT’S VERY AGGRESSIVE AND
MALIGN BEHAVIOR AND THE MEANS TO
ACHIEVE ALL OF THAT.
YES, THEY ARE AN ADVERSARY
BECAUSE THEY ARE PUSHING BACK
AGAINST THE INTERNATIONAL ORDER
THAT WAS ESTABLISHED POST-WORLD
WAR II TO MAKE CERTAIN THAT
THERE WAS NEVER A GLOBAL WAR AND
WHAT CHINA AND RUSSIA ARE BOTH
DOING IS CREATING THEIR OWN
SPHERE OF INFLUENCES TO GAIN
CONTROL OF COUNTRIES IN THEIR
REGIONS FOR THEIR OWN NATIONAL
INTEREST AT THE EXPENSE OF THOSE
COUNTRIES AND THAT IS REALLY THE
PUSH.
THE PUSHBACK.
MARIA: THERE HASN’T BEEN ANY
ACCOUNTABILITY FOR WHAT CHINA
HAS DONE IN HONG KONG.
LOOK AT HONG KONG.
YOU HAVE THE POLICE ON THE
GROUND.
IT’S A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT
PLACE THAN IT WAS FOR THE LAST
TEN YEARS BUT WILL GET BACK TO
THAT IN THE NEXT TIME.