| = = = = = a President Xi Jinping, China, Term Limits Robert Lawrence Kuhn — Minxin Pel March 5, 2018 HOST: When it comes to trade, one country more than any other has been the target of Trump’s ceees + - « ; ; rhetorical wrath, and that’s China. But my next sees ' s ‘ ; guest tells me that the promised tariffs won’t : : : bother China much, as we’ve been discussing. In o=9¢ : any way, they in China are dealing with much more _, i ; wr »* important things, like the proposal for the rubber ee 77 "Ss stamp Party Congress which starts its new session . ’ today to change the Constitution, and lift all term limits on President Xi Jinping, effectively making : him president for life. Now, I’ve been talking to >». ; Minxin Pei: he’s a professor of government at : re 6} Claremont McKenna College in California, and to Robert Lawrence Kuhn, who is the author of How China’s Leaders Think, and he is the host of a show . on the government-run CCTV news channel in Beijing. Gentlemen welcome to you both. Let me * start by asking you, Robert Lawrence Kuhn there in Beijing. From the Chinese government perspective, < these tariffs that the president of the United States has announced, how much does it concern Beijing? HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023676