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Bachman: Trump’s trip to China aimed at stopping N. Korea nuclear program | KOMO Radio

November 9, 2017

Chinese President Xi Jinping with U.S. President Donald Trump in Beijing. Photo credit: Xinhua/Li Xueren
Chinese President Xi Jinping with U.S. President Donald Trump in Beijing. Photo credit: Xinhua/Li Xueren

Henry M. Jackson Professor of International Studies David Bachman discusses President Trump’s visit to China in this interview by KOMO Radio.

Bachman says he thinks Trump hopes to accomplish several goals in his visit, primarily to ask China to pressure North Korea to give up its nuclear program, and also to address the U.S -China deficit and the issue of syntactic opioids coming from China to the U.S.

Listen to the full interview