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Podcast: ChinaTalk
Episode: Rahm Returns to Chat Trump and China: âHe is the worst negotiator.â
Description: Rahm Emanuel returns to ChinaTalk with a characteristically blunt assessment of U.S.-China relations, delivering an unsparing verdict on the first year of Donald Trumpâs second term.
We discuss:
The âFear Factorâ in Asia: Why Japan and South Korea are ramping up defense spending not because of Trumpâs strength, but because his unpredictability and isolationism have forced them to buy âinsurance policiesâ against a U.S. exit,
Corruption and âOwn Goalsâ: How âdraining the swampâ has turned into institutional degradation â and why the Trump familyâs entanglement of personal business interests with foreign p...