Listen as Larry spoke with Columnist Gordon Chang regarding the death of Liu Xiabo, a Chinese dissident who received a Nobel Peace Prize while in jail.
During the interview, Chang criticized the President’s statements about Xi Jinping today in France:
O’Connor: Let’s talk about this because we’re now six months into the Trump administration and you almost get the sense that most of the people in the Trump administration, when they talk about the issue of China, they’re really only looking at it from an economic standpoint, that this is either an issue of trade and currency, which of course it is, or militarily it’s a strategic alliance with regard to our allies in the Pacific and it is but there is something much bigger here looming. This is still a totalitarian communist regime.
Chang: Yes, you know and indeed we want to have good economic relations, we want to have security operations but we can’t with a regime that treats it’s people like this because this is the way that it operates and that’s the way that they would treat us if they had overwhelming leverage. And indeed today it was wrong for President Trump, standing beside the new French leader, to praise Xi Jinping on the day that Liu Xiabo died. I just can’t understand it.
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