00:00The U.S. and China have agreed to a one-year trade truce, you saying they both got what they wanted.
00:06But is this just a temporary measure to plaster over the deeper fundamental economic and geopolitical issues that the countries face?
00:15Yeah, I mean, I think anytime you have a meeting between Xi and Trump, right, or frankly, Xi and any future American president,
00:24I mean, there's still structural issues involved in this great power relationship that are not going to be resolved with one meeting.
00:33And that's why I, along with many others, have advocated that the U.S. and China need to get back to having things like the strategic and economic dialogue,
00:43which actually existed back during the George W. Bush administration, right?
00:49So to have these constant senior-level communications to ensure that any differences that may exist, and there are a lot, right, of course,
00:59are dealt with in a proper manner and do not escalate to the point where you have this tit-for-tat trade war on the economic side
01:07or, you know, on the security side have a major issue over Taiwan or in the South China Sea or something like that.
01:15So I think that more diplomacy, not less, is in order.
01:19That's not to say that all issues can be dealt with through diplomacy,
01:23but it certainly gives both sides a chance to resolve their differences peacefully.
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