'Asim Munir powerful than Pak PM': Ex-Pentagon official's big revelation amid Trump dinner affair
Former Pentagon official and a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, Michael Rubin, said, "President Trump is enamoured with Generals. We've known that since his first term. Second, it's a reality that Asim Munir has more power than the Prime Minister of Pakistan... Donald Trump is simply reflecting the reality without the diplomatic polish... The issue becomes, did Donald Trump tell Asim Munir that his actions risk a covert response that the Pakistanis will not be able to abide by and not like? Is Donald Trump threatening Pakistan in private, to allow it to save face in public?... China's chief interest is that much of the oil, nearly 44%, which comes out of the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, goes out to China and Asia. If a conflict continues to disrupt supplies, China is the big loser there, and not the US or Iran... Pakistan is a Chinese proxy, and it would not surprise if some messages were being passed not only from Trump to Asim Munir but if Asim Munir was delivering certain messages to Trump from China at the same time... Pakistan is hardly an independent country anymore..."
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