האם נושא זכויות האדם צריך להיות נושא מרכזי בשיחות ארה"ב וסין? | 2 דעות

Joining us now to discuss is Mike Leon, director of strategy at the Free and Equal Elections Foundation and host of the Can We Please Talk podcast. And we have Tony Kinnett, national correspondent for The Daily Signal and host of the Tony Kinnett cast radio show and podcast. So first of all, good afternoon to you both, as always. Mike, real quick, before we talk about the aforementioned topic, Trump is departing for China to meet with Xi what are your overall thoughts on that? And how strongly do you think he should bring up human rights issues? Yeah, well, good to see you guys on this Tuesday afternoon. I mean, you should always bring up human rights issues, Don. That shouldn't be a question. I mean, any president should be bringing that up and abuses that happen in any country. But in terms of this visit, you know, I mean, this is a paramount visit. The president kind of said it there about we are the two superpowers of the world. A lot of people, because of the tariffs and economic impacts, have been turning to China. Some of our adversaries have been running to China as well, to seek refuge or added troops like Russia has been using them with respect to the war. So we have different people that are turning to China for economic reasons, for other reasons. They are another superpower. So it is important and imperative that the leader of this country go over there and meet with the leader of that country and try to make sure that relationship is strong. But to your point, Don, diplomacy is not something that happens in a vacuum or happens very quickly. I'm sure the president will dance around some of the human rights abuses that China has infringed upon their people. I'm sure they'll point a finger back at the president on some of the things domestically. But be that as it may, it's important for the president to go out there and establish the relationship. Okay, so Tony, what is your on this? What is the right balance of bringing up human rights issues versus trade talks? I mean, my answer is probably going to be different than the president of the United States. My answer would be to completely blockade China until the communist regime is gone. But that's, of course, not the proper way that the president's office is likely going to handle this. His best approach here is going to be to tell China, look, your strategic petroleum reserves that you bragged about are empty. All of your little economic success that you were supposed to have did not happen. All of the wonderful, beautiful structures are ghost towns. You're pouring concrete without rebar. Your navy is rusted or made out of thin aluminum. It could be sponsored by Reynolds Wrap. You don't have anything here to play with. Your air defenses have been garbage. Your missiles have not worked. The drones that you've helped manufacture, half of them haven't even launched. Even the UAE is able to bypass your air defenses in strikes against Iran. So by all means, feel free to play ball, but the United States is going to move forward with or without you. You promised DeepSeek, the AI. It just turned out to be two Jap GPTs glued together. That's all that's been brought forward by the regime. When you have Taiwan, when you have South Korea, when you have several other Asian companies that are on the heels of the Chinese communist government in just 20 years of economic development that we've never even seen a comparison to before, Beijing's not bringing anything new to the table. They're bringing Cold War tactics to a space age game.