Is China serious about ‘war’ with America?

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Freddy Gray is joined with Michael R. Auslin who is an academic and historian at the Hoover Institution and author of the Substack the Patowmack Packet. They discuss China’s response to Trump’s tariffs, whether China is serious about threats of war and how concerned Trump is about China’s relationship with Russia. 

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