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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHaberman's take on new Bannon interview: He's "daring Cohn to quit or Kelly to fire Bannon. Or both"
Link to tweet
This is the interview she's talking about, from a writer at the American Prospect:
http://prospect.org/article/steve-bannon-unrepentant
To me, Bannon said, 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.
Bannons plan of attack includes: a complaint under Section 301 of the 1974 Trade Act against Chinese coercion of technology transfers from American corporations doing business there, and follow-up complaints against steel and aluminum dumping. Were going to run the tables on these guys. Weve come to the conclusion that theyre in an economic war and theyre crushing us.
But what about his internal adversaries, at the departments of State and Defense, who think the United States can enlist Beijings aid on the North Korean standoff, and at Treasury and the National Economic Council who dont want to mess with the trading system?
Oh, theyre wetting themselves, he said, explaining that the Section 301 complaint, which was put on hold when the war of threats with North Korea broke out, was shelved only temporarily, and will be revived in three weeks. As for other cabinet departments, Bannon has big plans to marginalize their influence.
Im changing out people at East Asian Defense; Im getting hawks in. Im getting Susan Thornton [acting head of East Asian and Pacific Affairs] out at State.
But can Bannon really win that fight internally?
Thats a fight I fight every day here, he said. Were still fighting. Theres Treasury and [National Economic Council chair] Gary Cohn and Goldman Sachs lobbying.
msongs
(67,459 posts)made in china crap
Me.
(35,454 posts)Doesn't work.
Now it's working, must be me. So how is it that...
Im changing out people at East Asian Defense; Im getting hawks in. Im getting Susan Thornton [acting head of East Asian and Pacific Affairs] out at State.
Who put him in charge and where the hell is Kelly?
highplainsdem
(49,044 posts)I noticed that Habenman was linking to a Google cache of the page in that tweet:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Em_UOEnvQpQJ:prospect.org/article/steve-bannon-unrepentant+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
An article at The Hill also linked to that cached page, for some reason.
But I just checked Twitter and saw quite a few direct links to the article as well.
And Haberman used both links in different tweets.
Hope one of those will work for you.
Kept trying and it finally worked
highplainsdem
(49,044 posts)Link to tweet
highplainsdem
(49,044 posts)Daniel Drezner tweet:
Link to tweet
highplainsdem
(49,044 posts)Btw, the author of that article says he can't believe Bannon meant the interview to be on the record.
herding cats
(19,568 posts)What game is Bannon playing here?
SweetieD
(1,660 posts)UTUSN
(70,755 posts)does to HABERMAN/NYT?!1