Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 22, 2026
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l it that. But now it's kind of obvious. And I'm not even talking about the, you know, the Chinese virus. I don't know what the origin of that is. That feels more like a mistake than intentional. But they certainly didn't help us. They didn't help us the way we would have expected a reasonable country to help us. So at this point I would say that closing the border with Mexico is how you win the…

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ust have to take sides. I'm on Team America. I would like to see China's fate turn very, very bad in the next few years. And I'm gonna work to make sure that happens unless they reform the government, which would be fine. That's first choice.

All right. Um, there's an article speaking of this in The New York Times about maybe sending home the Chinese spies at media companies. What? What am I understanding the story right? In The New York Times that the US government is considering maybe sending home the Chinese spies that work for media companies in the United States. What? What are you telling me? That we know they're spies and they're working in the United States writing stories that you and I are reading? What? Of course you should send them all home, dude.

Should we care that China is expelling our journalists? Probably not. Because I can't imagine journalists can actually operate in China anyway. Do you think it matters if we had journalists in China? Probably not. Because it probably just spies, or at least some of them don't. But do we care if we have spies or do we care if we have journalists, US journalists in China? Why would we care? They're not getting any stories, ri

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ght? Because if they ever reported anything negative about China they'd be kicked out anyway. So what is the point of having a US journalist? Any of them? Even one? Why would we even need one? They're not getting stories. They're not breaking any news. That's not going to happen. What's the point? So they're kicking out our journalists. Big deal. And then it's reported almost nonchalantly that we…

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