Ambassador Chas Freeman: Pelosi’s “Extreme Irresponsibility”

Full transcript is available here: Mike Billington: This is Mike Billington with the Schiller Institute and the Executive Intelligence Review. I'm here today with Ambassador Chas Freeman, an esteemed diplomat and one of the most knowledgeable people regarding Chinese issues in the nation. Do you wish to say anything else about your position? Amb. Chas Freeman: I'm a retired diplomat and defense official with views that differ from those of the establishment. Mike Billington: Indeed. Thanks. Well, the great mystery now, as everybody knows, is will she or will she not? Will Nancy Pelosi, who is now in Asia, stop in Taiwan? The itinerary she put out actually does not list Taiwan, but it's still expected, nonetheless, that she will stop there. As you know, Xi Jinping told Biden in their phone call on Thursday, “Those who play with fire shall perish by it.“ A