班农论中美经贸战和朝核问题

班农论中美经贸战和朝核问题

译者注：这是班农接受罗伯特卡特纳（美国瞭望杂志主编）的电话釆访的观点。他对左派鸡毛蒜皮的挑事，根本不屑一顾，他只关注长远的战略问题。朝核在军事上无解，只有通过贸易倒逼中国解决朝核与中美贸易逆差问题，一石二鸟。从川普最近的动作看，确实釆纳了班农的建议。

我们处于与中国的经贸战争之中。他们在他们的政策文献中均提到了这个问题。他们大言不惭地谈论他们正在做的事情。在今后25年至30年内，中美必有一方将成为世界霸主。如果我们继续沉沦下去，将是他们获胜。关于朝鲜，他们只想用它牵制我们，陪我们玩游戏。

关于朝核威胁，无法用军事手段解决，算了吧！除非我们有办法解决常规战争开始后的30分钟内首尔一千万人免遭生灵涂炭的问题。不管你想说什么，这里不存在军事解决的可能性。他们吃定了我们。

对我来说，与中国的经贸战争才是头等大事。我们必须全力以赴地关注这个问题。如果我们继续输，我们将只剩下5年至多10年时间到达一个临界点，过了这个临界点，我们再也扳不回来了。

我们必须破釜沉舟背水一战。我们认为他们在与我们打一场经贸战争，正在碾压我们。

我们正在东亚防御部门进行人事调整，我要把鹰派人物派过去。我要换掉国务院东亚和太平洋事务部代理主任苏珊桑顿。

这上面有争议，我们每天都争论。我们还要继续争论。财政部与国家经济委员会主席格瑞科恩之间在争论，还有高盛集团的游说。

我们必须釆取行动。这是总统该尽的职责。但是，政府机构正变得不可理喻 。不要误会，每天都是这样。

民主党越是抓住身份认同问题不放，我越能干倒他们。我希望他们天天争论种族问题。我们走经济民族主义路线，打跨民主党。

 

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Steven Bannon on Sino-US trade and Korean nuclear threat 

We’re at economic war with China. It’s in all their literature. They’re not shy about saying what they’re doing. One of us is going to be a hegemon in 25 or 30 years and it’s gonna be them if we go down this path. On Korea, they’re just tapping us along. It’s just a sideshow.

 There’s no military solution [to North Korea’s nuclear threats], forget it. Until somebody solves the part of the equation that shows me that ten million people in Seoul don’t die in the first 30 minutes from conventional weapons, I don’t know what you’re talking about, there’s no military solution here, they got us.

To me the economic war with China is everything. And we have to be maniacally focused on that. If we continue to lose it, we're five years away, I think, ten years at the most, of hitting an inflection point from which we'll never be able to recover.

We’re going to run the tables on these guys. We’ve come to the conclusion that they’re in an economic war and they’re crushing us.

I’m changing out people at East Asian Defense; I’m getting hawks in. I’m getting Susan Thornton [acting head of East Asian and Pacific Affairs] out at State.

That’s a fight I fight every day here. We’re still fighting. There’s Treasury and [National Economic Council chair] Gary Cohn and Goldman Sachs lobbying.

We gotta do this. The president’s default position is to do it, but the apparatus is going crazy. Don’t get me wrong. It’s like, every day.

The Democrats, the longer they talk about identity politics, I got ’em. I want them to talk about racism every day. If the left is focused on race and identity, and we go with economic nationalism, we can crush the Democrats.