Tonya J. Powers previews President Trump in China this week

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Joining us now, Tanya J. Powers, our Fox correspondent on what's going on with the president today as he's getting ready to have some talks with the Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing. I would imagine, Tanya, welcome in that Taiwan is front and center in all these discussions. Taiwan's definitely going to get some airtime, I would imagine. This is obviously a big deal. The situation with Taiwan, there has been people who have been quite concerned over, you know, whether the U.S. is prepared militarily with munitions that they would need if China decides to make a move regarding Taiwan. So that's probably going to be a topic. There's a lot of things, honestly, that they're expected to discuss over Thursday and Friday when they have these meetings. Trade is obviously a very big one. We understand there are some CEOs that are going to be joining this trip. The ones from Boeing and Citigroup as of last Friday when, you know, looking at the reporting on who was going to go with him. Those won't be the only ones, I don't think. But Boeing, obviously, you know, investment, Chinese investment in the U.S. is probably going to be a big topic. And that's kind of where this comes in because Boeing in March, they were closing in on an agreement with China to... sell them 500 of Boeing 737 max jets. It's been almost a decade since Chinese Airlines made a big order with Boeing like that. And Boeing CEO says basically this deal is 100% dependent. This was a quote from him on U.S. Chinese relations. So there's a lot of CEOs and business leaders in the U.S. who are really hoping this meeting goes well. Iran is, the war in Iran is obviously going to be a very big deal as well. talking about that, there's, you know, it's kind of going to. We can sort of wonder if the president is going to lean on Beijing to, you know, get them to lean on Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz to see, you know, what can be accomplished there. If there's, if there's, you know, something that Beijing has been viewing this as Washington's responsibility to end the war. You know, so it kind of, there could be, there could be cross purposes there about, you know, whose responsibility it is and, you know, who needs to do what to end this. There's plenty of other things. Tech. There's, you know, obviously, as I mentioned, national security, nuclear issues. You name it. It's probably on the list. 100%. And also, I'll tell you what's going on as well. I kind of find this interesting. A $14 billion U.S. arms package is ready to go to Taiwan. We've been an ally there forever. But now the president's holding off on that. thinking that maybe if I can get some good discussions going on with China here, we won't need to spend $14 billion and save this money for down the road here. But then you see what happened over the weekend as Pete Hegseth, our Secretary of War, suggesting now that Senator Mark Kelly, the Democrat from Arizona, violated his oath comments he made on a news outlet about how deep into the, you know, stockpiles of weapons we've really...

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used in this battle with Iran. And I would think that China's going over there going, oh, look at this. You know, they keep losing all their ammunition and all their guns and they're digging deep. It's going to take years to restockpile all this. That could be an issue, you know, at hand if China's planning anything. militarily with anybody down the road that, well, the U.S. has kind of used all their goodies up. They don't have much there now. So I'm curious to see as to how that all goes. Tanya, thank you so much for the update. I appreciate you. And yeah, I would imagine the president, this first time this has ever happened, where we pull back potential aid to Taiwan to the tune of $14 billion if talks go well in China. I know the president's a great negotiator, but that'd be a huge concession to make. It's never happened before.