Is the Trump administration abandoning any leverage we may have to protect the autonomy of Hong Kong? Thom is joined by Hong Kong expert Wilfred Chan, a contributing writer to The Nation magazine. Will China's aggressive moves to dismantle democracy in Hong Kong lead to the Thucydides Trap as a rising power confronts a declining one?

Will Trump be able to distract us from the real dangers in the world- and his own corruption- with nonsense and bluster? And will history ultimately be kind or unkind to his administration?

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