Xi Jinping

“What is the accomplishment that's going to really put him in that league, and you'd have to say it's the annexation of Taiwan. I mean, that's the thing that he must be looking to do before, you know, his time runs out.”

“But it now looks like we'll be living with Xi Jinping until until, you know, he joins the afterworld. So he's a ruler for life of China, basically.”

“I, my worldwide biggest political winner for 20, 20, 22 is Xi Jinping. I think this guy is he's firing on all cylinders and he is basically ascendant.”

“This is the beginning of the end of U.S. Cultural and economic influence globally, or dominance, rather, influence globally”

“If taiwan really wants to be independent every adult there needs to learn how to fight and they need to have weapons And that's gonna be the best guarantee. We can be their ally, but that's gonna be the best guarantor is creating a credible deterrent to she mo…”

“There's a transition that's happening mainly because of China. So we're, and I, you know, it seems like what we're doing is pushing Russia irrevocably into Xi's arms.”

“Xi is not. And Xi is much more hedged and moderate and, you know, wanted to have more optionality and felt that he was cornered”

“I think this has been part and parcel of a very focused and dedicated plan by Xi. Phase one was to consolidate power. Phase two was to get through November and to basically get reappointed for life and dispel any other You know, rivals that he actually had. An…”

“But I'd rather be playing the hand of the United States than the hand that Xi Jinping is playing, than the hand that India is playing. Certainly than the hand that societies in Asia where they're only going to be half as many people a century from now are play…”

“I think he's pragmatic enough to not also then add foreign misadventures to that plate.”

“I just think Xi is going to begin decoupling from Putin.”

“I think Trump and Xi both want a deal. I think there's a deal to be done that leaves Putin out in the cold, as I referenced.”

“I think what's most needed right now is to have a grand bargain between President Trump and President Xi, and that will then calm down the relationship. And obviously this is going to be a very competitive relationship for as far as the eye can see, because th…”

“Xi's largest export is not autos or electronics. It's the domestic economic dysfunction of China. They're crushing everybody in other countries, manufacturing base, industrial base, across the world.”

“This president punches down and kisses up. He has this fixation about Putin and Xi admiring him as an equal, and they think he's a joke. They think he is not their equal.”