Right at the beginning the female host has a problem with what the guest says is simply what Trump is doing. Trump takes glee claiming he wiped out 150% of China's economy since he's taken office but she takes offense at the suggestion that it's all about the US wanting to stay number one. If any Chinese official publicly said that they're out to destroy the US, Americans would see that as an act of war in itself.
If all the lies about trade they say were true, no American would be hurting in Trump's trade war. It would be relief not pressure and worry. For a President that says he hates polls, polls are the only gauge that leads Trump's moves. He got his greatest poll numbers on the economy over a month ago and he then slapped tariffs on China because he thought he could play hardball and claim he's fine with no deal. And since then the stock market has gone flat and a whole slew of indicators are flashing "recession ahead". Now he wants talks with China even making threats if Xi doesn't show at the G20 summit...? China should be making Trump hurt not saving his butt so he can spin positive things. If China wants to put the nail in the coffin of the likes of Navarro, Bannon, Pillsbury, etc. after the Trump era, make them hurt by proving them wrong and that's not playing middle of road with the likes of Trump. Trade is so full of lies it's better to just start over and horse trade on every point. "If you want this, what are you going to give me for it? If you don't give this, they you don't get that"! It's the US that will be against it because they want a deal that only is in the US's favor. Remember the lie that China doesn't buy American? Today the truth comes out that it's the US that prevents China from buying American.