Fireside Chat With Stephen Kotkin & US House Select Committee on China | Hoover Institution

Asking what Xi wants is the wrong question because the appetite grows in the eating. Even if Xi just wants to dominate East and Southeast Asia right now, once China has gained that, their appetite will grow and they will want more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aQfzDs7RzI

Why America Shouldn’t Underestimate Chinese Power | Foreign Affairs Interview

Scale matters. China has more scale than the U.S.. This makes allies important. With allies, the U.S. can surpass China in scale.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqyMVZhJHcE

How Trump is Cashing In on the Presidency | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

Trump repeatedly acts corruptly, and our institutions are not working properly to stop it.

The Congress should investigate and possibly impeach for such corruption, but the Speaker of the House dismisses it as false claims while saying that what the Biden crime family did was worse, even though those allegations are misleading bullshit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQcWxiu9GwE

Trump’s Tariffs Are Already Raising Car Prices and Hurting Automakers

“Reuters reported this week that as a result of Trump’s tariffs, Ford Motor Co. will raise prices on three of its models by as much as $2,000 apiece. Days earlier, the company said it expected the tariffs to reduce annual earnings by $1.5 billion, even after making efforts to avoid U.S. import duties.

Rivian, which makes luxury electric vehicles from a single plant in Illinois, also announced this week that it expected to deliver fewer vehicles and spend more money this year as a result of the tariffs.

Then on Thursday, The New York Times reported that Toyota “predicted a $1.3 billion hit from President Trump’s tariffs in April and May alone.”

In a March executive order, Trump slapped a tariff of 25 percent on all imported automobiles, as well as automotive parts like engines, transmissions, and electrical components. The only exception was for those covered under the U.S.–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA), in which case the tariff only applied to the portion of the vehicle’s value not “attributable to parts wholly obtained, produced entirely, or substantially transformed in the United States.””

https://reason.com/2025/05/08/trumps-tariffs-are-already-raising-car-prices-and-hurting-automakers/