Margaret Brennan recently was among a small number of reporters who traveled with Secretary of State Antony Blinken to China, a trip designed to turn down the temperature on simmering tensions with…
BRENNAN: I remember looking at them going, ‘Oh.’ I think there’s always the public posturing that happens, and certainly you see that in Chinese propaganda. You see that in the very careful remarks that are made to the American press as well by U.S. officials. This is a very tense relationship, and there is no longer the illusion, and the Biden officials would tell you that, that America is going to change China.
BRENNAN: There’s also that risk of the Chinese government miscalculating. American policymakers [are trying to gauge] what’s happening in the inner circle in China. They’re trying to gauge in Xi Jinping’s office what is happening in American politics. Do they misread the noise and take it seriously, the increased drumbeat? So that is a risk as well.
We’ve been hearing about TikTok for years and the national security risks that it poses. The United States government hasn’t acted on it. The Trump administration did try to force a change that got locked up in the courts. The Biden administration is trying to consider what is possible in terms of a ban. But if it is a national security threat, the policymakers have been kind of stuck in responding to it.
BRENNAN: For diplomats, words matter to the extreme, because there is such risk in being misunderstood. There is the weight that you bring to the conversation when you are the representative of the president of the United States. … And that is why they speak as carefully as they do.
BRENNAN: It’s wonderful to see more women in that position on Sunday mornings. I think she is a wonderful person and I have known her for years, my time going back to being a White House correspondent. Shannon Bream over on Fox recently stepped into that role. Dana Bash is often on Sundays, though she shares airtime with Jake Tapper. Martha Raddatz is in that rotation as well [on ABC News’].
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