00:00But Derek, you mentioned President Donald Trump traveling to Beijing
00:04and the fact that he actually has a date that he wants to end this war by.
00:08Why do you think it's so important that he ends this war ahead of his trip to China?
00:13Because I also found it really interesting that on Truth Social the other day,
00:17he said, I'm opening the Strait of Hormuz for China.
00:21Xi is going to give me a big fat hug when he sees me.
00:24What's the concern with China when it comes to President Trump?
00:28Yeah, I mean, I think the idea of ending the war in order to, you know,
00:34have a better meeting with Xi Jinping is really kind of silly.
00:40Look, Trump and Netanyahu decided to start this war, right?
00:45And Iran obviously gets a vote in how it turns out.
00:49And so you can't just start a war and then end it when you want to, all right?
00:52Because it takes the other party's buy-in as well.
00:57And that is, you know, that's precisely why we saw Trump delay the visit to Beijing from March 31st to
01:04May 14th,
01:05thinking that that would buy him enough time in order to have the war cleaned up by then.
01:10And almost, you know, in a way, give a deliverable, a policy deliverable to China, right?
01:16But again, China's not stupid.
01:18They know that Trump started this war.
01:20So you're going to give a deliverable to Xi that should have never been a deliverable to begin with, right?
01:27As far as I can remember, the Strait of Hormuz was open before the war started, right?
01:32So from Xi Jinping's perspective, I mean, sure, he'll take the deliverable, so to speak, right?
01:37But I mean, that is not going to create a smoother U.S.-China relationship.
01:43I think from Beijing's perspective, the United States is increasingly erratic and increasingly predatory, frankly, on the rest of the
01:52world.
01:53And that is something that China is preparing to deal with, not only for itself, but also offering support to
01:59Iran.
02:00We saw the assistance with the Chinese spy satellite to monitor U.S. military movements, right?
02:05So things like that, I think, are going to continue, regardless of whether this war is cleaned up before May
02:1214th.
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