The Washington Post’s David Ignatius told Chris Matthews Monday that the “smartest thing Trump has done the first 100 days of foreign policy” is working in tandem with China to put pressure on North Korea.
Ignatius stated he thinks “Trump is right to think that the time address the North Korean problem is now.”
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“The longer you wait, the more likely they’ll have a deliverable nuclear weapon that can attack the United States and that becomes a different confrontation.”
“During the campaign, Trump was incendiary of his criticism of China,” he continued. “Really just red hot rhetoric.”
“He realized that when he became president that he will not be able to solve the North Korea problem, even address it, without having a relationship with [China’s President] Xi, and he set about doing that,” Ignatius explained. “China is now, to a surprising extent, working in tandem with the United States to deal with North Korea.”