Thread by @BaldingsWorld

There is one other thing that keeps gnawing at me about the Pelosi trip. Let's assume Biden team tried privately before and after she scheduled it to try and cancel it. (Reasonable assumption). Let's then assume they have her a list of reasons from the political to 1/n

To the strategic using both public and classified information to try and disuade her from going. (Also a reasonable assumption). She listens to their arguments and tells them to go pound sand. First of all why? The most obvious explanation is that she does draw the same 2/n

Conclusions from the same information set, assuming they have the same or nearly identical information. That means she disagrees quiet strongly with their analytical conclusions or with their strategic approach to obtain certain objectives. Put another way: Pelosi just told 3/n

The Biden adminstration: Your China approach is crap. Jake I was protesting China when you were learning how to write 'concession' in cursive. Make no mistake this is a major vote of no confidence by Pelosi on the Biden adminstration approach. What makes this so notable 4/n

Is this isn't Trump and Pelosi, these are people playing on the same team who have known each other for years and worked on these issues. This is a major get lost. On the fundamental issue this should tell you how bad and weak China policy is under the Biden adminstration. 5/n

These guys are two years in and have basically done nothing. Zilch. Zero. Nada. It's so bad that can't even get arguably one of the biggest non executive politicians in THEIR team to playball with their China approach. Trust should tell you how bad it is.