now to your question. the question is important because you re a relatively small country which depends upon strong alliances with its neighbours, not least in the trading block with argentina, paraguay and brazil. and if one looks at the wider region, you have a problem because the people you need to work with have very different politics from yours. you know that my great grandfather used to speak about lord palmerston. stepping here and i took a picture and he always said, countries don t have permanent enemies or permanent friends. they have permanent interests. so, i have to be chief of state of all of my country, and my country has lots of opinions. if i do international politics thinking about ideology, i won t go forward.
and if you read the programme, you will not be able to find centre right. now to your question. the question is important because your relatively small country which depends upon strong alliances with its neighbours. not least in the trading block with argentina, paraguay and brazil. and if one looks at the wider region, you have a problem because the people you need to work with have very different politics from yours. my great grandfather used to speak about this. stepping here and i took a picture and he always said, countries don t have permanent enemies or permanent friends. they have permanent interests. i have to be chief of state for all of my country and my country has lots of opinions. if i do international politics
the question is important because your relatively small country which depends upon strong alliances with its neighbours. not least in the trading block with argentina, paraguay and brazil. and if one looks at the wider region, you have a problem because the people you need to work with a very different politics from yours. my great grandfather used to speak about this. stepping here and i took a picture and palmer always said, countries don t have permanent enemies or permanent friends. they have permanent interests. i have to be chief of state for all of my country and my country has lots of opinions. if i do international politics thinking about ideology,
that we ve heard president biden suggest that there was a change in u.s. policy when it comes to taiwan, and then the white house walked that back and we saw the same thing when he was on his last trip and talked about potential regime change with vladimir putin and the white house had to walk that back also, and so to your point, dana, there have been multiple times throughout this administration where president biden has said something that is stronger on the trips, and then the white house has had to draw back on that a little bit. and say no, we re not signaling a change in any u.s. policy here. another announcement on the trip. one of the reasons we ve been so differential to china is it s visceral on our economy. we get cheap products made in china. everybody says we need to be nice to china. maybe it s time to just put that behind us. another thing they announced is mini tppn. at the beginning of the trump administration he blew up the transpacific partnership what was suppose
people listening. in there are no limits to the engagement and friendship, mara, quickly. yeah. with if they want to create their own little totalitarian trading block they can. american businesses should look at what is happening with russia and all the sanctions being put on. all the businesses have pulled out and think we better get out of china fast and decouple from the economy because we will be in big trouble if they evade taiwan. bret: marc, mara, thank you. bret: finally tonight, some great news up on capitol hill. back to work. every one of you that sent me notes, that sent videos and all the prayers, it worked. and it s good to be back. i will tell you, i missed you all. look forward to bret: half the day here. senate commerce committee hearing fcc nominees surprise participant in morning new mexico democrat senator ben ray lujan returning a little over a month after suffering a stroke.