TODAY The Thucydides Trap
CHINA SYNDROME: Between official meetings, President Trump bristled online at Xi Jinping’s suggestion that the US is a declining nation, saying, “he was referring to the tremendous damage we suffered during the four years of Sleepy Joe Biden and the Biden Administration, and on that score, he was 100% correct.”
YESTERDAY Xi Warns Trump About Taiwan
CHINA SYNDROME: Chinese leader Xi Jinping warned President Trump that if the Taiwan situation is handled poorly that could lead to conflict and “an extremely dangerous situation.”
The President is on Air Force One this morning returning.
Trump is President, not Joe Biden, and Xi was speaking to Trump when he warned against falling into the “Thucydides Trap” described by the ancient author as when a declining nation makes the mistake of going to war with a rising power. Xi is saying that he wants possession of Taiwan...
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It's Been Said
"Christians, get out and vote, just this time. You won't have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what, it will be fixed, it will be fine, you won't have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians. I love you Christians. I'm a Christian. I love you, get out, you gotta get out and vote. In four years, you don't have to vote again, we'll have it fixed so good you're not going to have to vote."
- Donald Trump courting the vote of the Christian right
