Are Trump’s Tariffs Pushing America’s Allies Toward China?

I was in Ottawa for for a couple of days last week talking with Canadian businesses, Canadian policy makers. I kept bringing up China. They're not interested at all in talking about the China problem. All they want to talk about is the Trump problem. >> They have immediate leverage, but so does the US. Xiinping. He was the one

that actually pushed the idea of constructive stability. It wasn't actually the Trump administration because nothing out of the Trump administration says constructive or stable. [music]

>> [music] >> You're listening to American Power. I'm your host, Nat Tain, stand-up comedian, political speech writer, many other forms of writer, and most likely to result in wearing a lot of plaid shirts, podcast host. I'm joined as always by my panel of expert, our expert on foreign policy in the military, Chad Scott.

chat. How's it going? >> It's going really good. I'm I'm actually excited for this episode because these are the types of episodes that I can learn a lot. Definitely not my wheelhouse. So, um really looking forward to this discussion. >> You're just excited for Chad Solidarity. >> Yeah, another Chad. I know the Chads are

taking over. >> This is really about Also joining us as always, uh back on the paddle, you know, Miss Mr. Global, Matt Randolph. Matt, how's it going? >> Matt, it's a great day. I got my $1,500 check from Donald Trump for being overcharged in the health care marketplace, even though I've literally never participated in the health care

marketplace. So, super excited that, you know, uh all this waste, fraud, and abuse we hear about is is being corrected. Um >> that's great. [laughter] >> Wow. I love that I have to reertify every 18 seconds for my insurance to not get cancelled for some reason. Oh yeah, it was it was not shocking.