“A hundred years from now, this is what they’ll remember — what we did to confront China on its rise to world domination,” Bannon told the New York Times. “We’re not at economic war with China, China is at economic war with us.”He admonished officials in George W Bush’s administration for their trade policies, accusing them of being weak. “If you’re a great power, how come you can’t control the Frankenstein monster you created in North Korea?” he asked in the interview with the New York Times. “The solution to Korea runs through Beijing and we have to engage Beijing,” Bannon said in the CBS interview. Bannon was reportedly encouraged when Trump, before he was sworn into office, spoke directly with Taiwan’s president on the phone, infuriating China.

Source: The Guardian September 11, 2017 05:53 UTC