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We Need to Be Talking to China

I think Tony Blinken absolutely should be meeting his Chinese counterpart. And if anything, this scale of freak out in our politics demonstrates why it's so important that we need to be talking to China. It was unnerving to read that right after the F-22 shot down the Chinese spy balloon, Secretary Lloyd Austin, our defense secretary tried to call this Chinese counterpart on one of those special like crisis lines during the Cold War. So I think the administration needs to start kind of pointing out, hey, we've been really tough on China. But these guys over here, the right wing of the Republican Party in this country, like it's getting a little dangerous.

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