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HIATT: So what do you think China’s aims are in the South China Sea? TRUMP: Well I know China very well, because I deal with China all the time. I’ve done very well. China’s unbelievably ambitious. China is, uh… I mean, when I deal with China, you know, I have the Bank of America building, I’ve done some great deals with China. I do deals with them all the time on, you know, selling apartments, and, you know, people say ‘oh that’s not the same thing.’ The level of… uh, the largest bank in the world, 400 million customers, is a tenant of mine in New York, in Manhattan. The biggest bank in China. The biggest bank in the world. China has got unbelievable ambitions. China feels very invincible. We have rebuilt China. They have drained so much money out of our country that they’ve rebuilt China. Without us, you wouldn’t see the airports and the roadways and the bridges; I mean, the George Washington Bridge is like, that’s like a trinket compared to the bridges that they’ve built in China. We don’t build anymore, and it, you know, we had our day. But China, if you look at what’s going on in China, you know, they go down to seven percent or eight percent and it’s like a national catastrophe. Our GDP is right now zero. Essentially zero.

All that noise.. and nothing about China's aims in the South China Sea.

“All that noise.. and nothing about China’s aims in the South China Sea.”

China has always “conquered” via economic trade...you simply don’t understand the relevance of Trump’s answer. I would agree he needs to bring his speaking down to levels most Americans will understand...he does not do that well. But, don’t kid yourself, he is communicating many relevant things when he talks...hitting many different voter demographics. He has the ability to bring in many thoughts to individual sentences...but, he does so coarsely. That is because he really is not a polished politician.

“All that noise.. and nothing about China’s aims in the South China Sea.”

Of course not, it is stupid and potentially dangerous to disclose your strategy in advance to an adversary.