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Every instance asians have demonstrated maturity to walk back from the brink, focus on their geoeconomic complementaries. i don't see any reason why that pattern won't continue even though we have to concede asia is a growing arms bazaar. no one really wants to see their economic growth will derailed or other kind of significant instability that would require that the u.s. come in and reimpose itself as a hegemon in the region. >> evan, do you think that the trump administration will reach a deal with china? i was struck by the fact that president trump tweeted about huawei saying they're a ve...

Those sales are not real. the obama administration's last sale was $25 billion. and i think donald trump watching the news that pakistan recently made a large arms sale from china and that india made a missile sale from russia, that he sees this as some sort of arms bazaar, which we've always dominated in the middle east, but that's his number one priority. perhaps not even the defense of democracy himself. because he told the saudis he was not going to be getting involved in their business anymore, and i'm sure that was, you know, news to their ears and something that they would be pleased by...

Arabia and we desperately need them to buy this material because they will immediately go to the chinese or someone else. >> that was a very unfortunate statement that the president made about the potentially $110 billion of arms sales over this issue of cushakhashoggi. which tells the saudis what donald trump's price to buy his silence. the obama strg's laadministrati sale was $25 billion. and i think donald trump watching the news that pakistan recently made a large arms sale from china and that india made a missile sale from russia, tat he sees this as some sort of arms bazaar, which we've ...

The capability? an investigator would go down all of those lanes. does someone in that area have the capability to do it? even when you look back at history, even 2014, there was lots of arms shipments going into groups that would be in the sinai, including surface-to-air missiles. not just isil and isis, but also you have hamas we believe had the ability and capability with operating the surface-to-air, even shoulder fire missiles. the height would have been an issue. we don't think they had anything that could get that high. but you can't rule it out completely. why? some of those weapons we...

Become our allies anywhere in the region is delusional and dangerous. the idea that we're going to lift these sanctions -- i think steve talked about how this is going to work. look it's not just that they're going to use the billions that they're going to get and now be able to shop in the arms bazaar so they'll have weapons to distribute to hezbollah, hamas, all of their allies around the region the yemenis, the houthis, they're now going to be able to acquire the most sophisticated land-to-ship missiles to deny us not our ally sies u.s. the u.s. navy the straits of hormuz. we are giving thi...