these are things xi jingping knows and for an awfully long time, the west sat on its hands, we turned the other cheek. what i spoke about was a need to reorient and recognize that whatever the policy that were chosen back in the 1970s, whether they may well have made sense at the time, it no longer makes sense for the security of the american people. this isn't just a security issue. this is a fundamental understanding about how economies grow and how we preserve jobs and wealth creation and prosperity here in the united states of america. this is central to trump, the trump administration's foreign policy. i believe it's going to be central to every administration's foreign policy for years to come. >> trump administration critics say it would be easier to counter china, as you said, for years to come into future administrations if we had done more to rally allies. i know you've been in asia and europe doing exactly that. where do you feel you've succeeded, where do you have worries? whether you look at germany, south korea, japan, they all have china as their number one trading part

. >> personal relationships are fine but nobody should think that xi jingping or vladimir putin let a personal relationship interfere with their pursuit of national interest the way we deal with china would be much enhanced if we had better european-american cooperation. we would be more powerful in dealing with some of the chinese abuses in international trade and stealing intellectual property the way china handled the coronavirus pandemic they engaged in a disinformation campaign continuing to this very day. >> that was john bolton, an extraordinary fascinating and smart man. i have listened to the book. i don't know if you heard it as well and read it as well but made some extraordinary comments and claims against mr. trump as well >>> coming up on the show, saudi aramco cuts it crude oil prices after a down beat forecast more when we come back >>> this follows friday's appointment of the chief turnaround officer he has been tasked with bringing the company back to satisfactory levels of probability by 2022. daimler will not expand production any further the auto maker will instea

long-term and how does it fit into an overall broader strategy you have to know that's going to anger xi jingpingls in china and you'll probably get a market on the futures. >> u.s. policy over china in the last four years, it is you talk tough and get tough but do not spook the market so this is a market. this is a market spooking event so there's like this balance we want to change this relationship, we want to get tougher but we don't want there to be any costs. we don't want there to be any costs as far as sales in china, let's invest between the two companies prices living with these one offs and escalations market rattling kind of events. >> does the upcoming political battle over the filling of ruth bader ginsburg's seat. do you think that reduces the chance of a new stimulus package being passed and if so, how much? >> look, the odds are not great before this as he is running down some of these really, i think, exotic measures that democrats are thinking about and the odds are not good before this is going to consume in a big $1.5 trillion stimulus package was your baseline about what was

in the european union has concluded its virtual summit uphxi jingping by stepping -- demands for chinato pursue fair economic poli cies and provide concessions. >> a lot rains -- remains to be done. areas.larly in two the one is market access and the other one is sustainable development. -- we needchina china to move on these two issues. china has to convince us that it is worth having an investment agreement. >> and more on the pandemic. global coronavirus cases have topped 29 million with 925,000 deaths. the world health organization reported more global cases in a single day than ever. india remains the second worst affected country and a surge has seen 90,000 cases recorded each day for the past five days. the country now has more than 4.8 million known infections and just short of 80,000 deaths. and the u.s. is recommending americans to reconsider travel to hong kong. the state department raised its advisory for the city based on the implementation of the national security law. u.s. citizens in hong kong are strongly advised to avoid any demonstrations. u.s.-chinames as ties remai