Trump’s Transactional Diplomacy Is A Good Thing | Col. Grant Newsham | CLIP

"[China] sees this very much as a 'zero-sum game,' as a word some might use. And whatever China can get, it will take. And it will not make concessions because it does very much view this as a fight to the finish.

And Xi has said this. If you actually read the translations of his speeches, both spoken and written, he's clearly saying that the Chinese system cannot survive if the American system survives. One of them's got to go.

And he has referred to the United States, the US system, particularly these ideas of freedom and human rights, and the things we hold dear - he refers to these as 'the enemy,' as something that must be destroyed.

…Everything they do is designed to take down the United States, to destroy the free countries, and to weaken them, and you just cannot deal with a regime like that. And this is a unique regime that doesn't exist anywhere else on Earth." - Grant Newsham