Deputy WH natsec adviser Matt Pottinger is giving a keynote for a London think tank in fluent Mandarin and quoting the Simpsons .

Pottinger wastes no time on notion that the US-China could collaborate on anything -- launches immediately into discussion of its vast cyber surveillance operation, says China's goal is to "coopt, bully, seduce" people "into submission like taking the blue pill in The Matrix."

Pottinger describes Trump's China policy as one of "reciprocity and candor" and defines the first principle as "when a country injures your interests, you return the favor."

Pottinger says the "high-water mark" of China's openness came on Dec. 11, 2001, when it was admitted to the WTO. Says Beijing has failed to implement reforms, and gone into reverse over past decade.

Pottinger, a former Wall St. Journal reporter, defends Trump's stance on human rights: "If you look at what President Trump does, and not what the media says, the moral component cannot be denied."