Right? I mean, that's kind of the equivalent of what they'd be asking us to do. We've just come to terms with the fact that there's not going to be some giant comprehensive reform of the way the Chinese political system works. including all these economic elements of it. But we can have some managed trade, we can maybe have some reform around the edges of that managed trade in the interest of stability and continued economic peace between our countries. (04:10–04:20)
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Asserts that the U.S. has accepted that China will not undergo comprehensive political system reforms.
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