He flatly contradicted Trump's strategy of tough talk in the face of North Korea's nuclear threat: “There’s no military solution, forget it." "Until somebody solves the part of the equation that shows me that 10 million people in Seoul don’t die in the first 30 minutes from conventional weapons, I don’t know what you’re talking about, " Bannon said. "There’s no military solution here, they got us.”
Because there's no solution to the North Korea problem, the White House should stop worrying about getting China's help on that issue and go hard against Chinese trade, Bannon said, pushing an issue that has been top priority for him. The U.S. and China are in an “economic war,” Bannon said, adding that “one of us is going to be a hegemon in 25 or 30 years, and it’s gonna be them if we go down this path” of not confronting the Chinese over trade.
http://www.latimes.com/politics/washington/la-na-essential-washington-updates-trump-s-far-right-chief-strategist-1502968996-htmlstory.htmlBannon, who successfully harnessed the so-called alt-right as executive chairman of Breitbart News and later as an architect of Trump's unlikely election victory, dismissed white nationalist ideology as a "fringe element" that appeals to "losers" and a "collection of clowns."
"I think the media plays it up too much, and we gotta help crush it," Bannon said in the interview, which published on Wednesday. The White House strategist is happy, though, to see Democrats emphasize racism. "If the left is focused on race and identity, and we go with economic nationalism, we can crush the Democrats," Bannon said. He echoed those comments in a separate interview with the New York Times.
http://www.npr.org/2017/08/17/544162664/bannon-unplugged-white-house-strategist-pushes-trade-agenda-undercuts-colleagues
