Editor-in-chief of a Chinese state-run media outlet mocked President Trump, claiming the president 'paid the price for his gamble to play down COVID-19.'
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PETE were back with a Fox news,
ALERT Communist China sending
mixed messages on president
trumps, Covid 19 diagnosis,
while chinese Xi Jinping wishes
our president and first lady, a
fast recovery in a now deleted,
tweet, the editor in C chief of O
of Chinas state run media
outlets. There are no other kind
in China mocked President Trump
claiming he pays the
price for his gamble to play
down. Covid 19
lets bring in Fox NEWS senior
strategic analyst and retired
four star General Jack Keane
Geneneral. Thank you so much
its pretty rich for the
communist Chinese to be
talking about playing down a
virus that they put on the rest
of the world and state owned
media dont, say things
independently.
What are the chinese saying and
how should we react to it?
Well, first of all I mean
there is an international
protocol, thats widely accepted
among leaders of the world when
one of them is having a
challenge, like our president, has
theyre going to reach out
with a degree of civility and
support for the president and
his wife, the first lady
all that said, because President
Trump has been unrelenting as a
world leader in identifying, I
think accurately, so that China
and its leader, President
XI, led a localized
epidemic spread into a world
pandemic, because he committed
those international flights to
come out of Wuhan City and we
have held them accountable and
now theres a broad coalition of
support for that same thought
process, and I also believe its
been a catalyst for other
countries around the world, PETE
to kind of take a hard
look at their relationship with
the Chinese Communist Party and
reassess it in terms of what
their goals are and what their
own national interests are, and
that reassessment has taken
place and thats. Why you see
Secretary Pompeo going
around the world as much as he
is, and Secretary of Defense
Esper as well?
They are continuously talking
about this hostile nation, China
and imposing its will on the
world at large, and now, I
think, were in a position here
that weve not been before in
establishing a coalition and
eventually a strategy with other
world leaders in how to cope
with this reality.
Pete but general. Would that
change in a Biden administration,
it doesnt seem theres been any
reassessment there.
He calls them a competitor.
Are they would they be greeted
with a much different world? Were
that to happen?
Pete? I dont get involved in
the politics of this.
The reality is China wants to
dominate and control their
region, and they have been about
that now for about fifteen years and
theyve had a significant
PETE general. I dont want to
get political
and, as a result of that
success, they also want to get
up. They also want to
dominate the world and replace
the United States as a leader in
the world, so that is not going
to change, regardless of who is
president.
Those are very harsh realities.
We have not faced a threat like
this, like since the Soviet
Union,
its been thirty years. Almost since
the Soviet Union collapsed and
we dealt with that threat for forty
years
were going to deal with the
threat of China also for
multiple generations,
PETE General, we know you speak
with the president frequently
have you had a chance to talk to
him and get an assessment and
sort of a corollary to that, as
you think in a moment like
this, how do you anticipate what
adversaries may attempt to do as
they view our system and a
president whose at Walter Reed?
Well, the president doesnt
surprise me at all in dealing
with Covid
hes, vigorous hes, maintaining
his duties? Hes got a very
strong work ethic im, not
surprised by that at all, and
certainly, I think were all
appreciate- the optimism that his
doctors are telling us that hes
doing well and hes improving
and hes not out of the woods
yet, as we all know what covid
does?
Yes, our adversaries, certainly
our National Command Authority,
our command and control our
national security apparatus that
stays intact
its not in crisis,
its not threatened by this
diplomatic post. The military is
deployed and operating around
the world on a same alert status.
It always is, and our command
and control is effective and
there should be no concern but
adversaries, as you mentioned,
PETE will take advantage of this
one of the things im convinced
they will do because they are
already doing it and that is
undermining our democracy and
undermine the peoples, trust and
confidence in it. By spreading
false stories and disinformation,
which theyve been working on
for montnths leading up to the
election and whose doing that
China is doing it, Russia and
also IRAN,
they will try to change their
stories. A little bit blame the
president for having covid
himself emphasize again. The
United States problems
associated with Covid blame the
United States for much of
the problem dealing with covid
worldwide.
They will use that kind of theme
to create Miss trust in the
Americans. Peoples,
confidence in our government, but
the people see through that and
theyre not buying into that and
the reality is were kind of
used to this game that our
adversaries are playing and the
information influence
business
PETE yeah, just like we become
unfortunately used to the game. A
lot of the press plays to knit
picking in what doesnt appear
to be all that genuine of a way
general Jack Keane. Thank you so
much for your insight. This.
Transcript generated on 2020-10-17.