Bannon's War Room - August 30, 2024


Episode 3870： China Ties And Walz Lies


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Peter K. Navarro is joined by Chinese-American political strategist Tim Waltz to discuss the latest on the case against Steve Bannon and why he should be released from prison. Also, former Navy Admiral Jim Fennell joins the show to talk about the Biden-Harris regime's handling of the Steve Bannon case.

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00:00:00.000 Now, I happen to be and understand a little about China and lived in China and speak Chinese.
00:00:04.840 I'm pretty friendly with China.
00:00:06.040 I lived in China, and as I said, I've been there about 30 times,
00:00:09.500 but if someone tells you they're an expert on China, they're probably not telling you the truth
00:00:13.520 because it's a complex country, but it's critically important for us.
00:00:16.200 I don't fall into the category that China necessarily needs to be an adversarial relationship.
00:00:21.020 I totally disagree, and I think we need to stand firm on what they're doing in the South China Sea,
00:00:25.040 but there's many areas of cooperation that we can work on,
00:00:29.300 and when I was in China this past November, I got to have supper with their agricultural minister
00:00:33.620 and talked about the issues, and some of the issues that were facing him were the same things facing us.
00:00:38.380 GMO labeling, some of the issues of lower land price or for lower commodity prices as land prices rose,
00:00:44.560 and I think it's critically important, and I think that is an overlap.
00:00:47.920 Why, that's a human rights-focused commission.
00:00:50.380 It has opened, I think, channels of collaboration that I've been able to talk to the Chinese
00:00:54.580 because when we're on the same...
00:00:56.200 I am certainly honored to have been there and to see the spirit of the Chinese people
00:01:01.100 about trying to, very proud of their country, but understanding that freedom needs to shine.
00:01:07.440 Niman Hama, Governor Tim Walz here.
00:01:09.460 Happy Chinese New Year.
00:01:11.320 This spring festival is a time to welcome and celebrate the new year with a smile
00:01:15.160 and let the fortune and happiness continue.
00:01:17.920 Please remember to practice social distancing and wear a mask as you celebrate.
00:01:21.660 This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
00:01:31.140 Pray for our enemies, because we're going to medieval on these people.
00:01:36.340 You've just not got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.
00:01:40.620 The people have had a belly full of it.
00:01:42.540 I know you don't like hearing that.
00:01:43.960 I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it.
00:01:46.640 It's going to happen.
00:01:47.700 And where do people like that go to share the big lie?
00:01:51.240 Mega Media.
00:01:52.240 I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
00:01:58.100 Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
00:02:01.880 If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
00:02:08.180 War Room.
00:02:09.080 Here's your host, Stephen K. Band.
00:02:17.700 Peter K. Navarro in for Stephen K. Bannon.
00:02:20.660 This morning we're going to meet Tiananmen Tim Waltz, our Manchurian VP candidate.
00:02:27.420 But before we get into that, I want to give you a preview of the show.
00:02:32.460 Next segment, I'm going to have a young man come on, Adam Milan, who is really one of the rising analysts and journalists, particularly on communist China.
00:02:46.740 He'll be with us.
00:02:47.520 And at the bottom of the hour, one of my great naval war heroes, Jim Fennell, will come in and talk about a huge misstep by the Biden-Harris regime.
00:03:01.680 With respect to allowing Thailand to basically get into the communist Chinese orbit.
00:03:12.120 But most importantly, I think today as we go into Labor Day, I'm going to analyze a story which the legacy media, I think, on purpose particularly, did not focus on.
00:03:28.060 And it's about our brother, Steve Bannon, who filed an important motion in the court this week for his release.
00:03:35.320 Based on my read of that chessboard, I do predict right now that Steve Bannon will be out of prison in time to sit in this chair in the war room for what should be, what should be if things go well, at least a month and maybe more before the actual election.
00:03:59.520 They've been keeping Steve prisoner for no other reason than to silence him and prevent the greatest mind in political strategy.
00:04:12.900 He proved that during the 26th election from participating in this 2024 presidential election.
00:04:24.040 And you have to remember here, the election interference that's going on in the Biden's Department of Injustice is not just about trying to put Donald Trump in prison,
00:04:36.460 stain him with the stink of so-called so-called convicted felon, divert his money, literally hundreds of millions of dollars away from the campaign into legal issues or divert hundreds of his hours.
00:04:54.020 It's also, in my case, it was to try to intimidate people who would otherwise serve President Trump.
00:05:04.620 As you know, I served four months in a Biden-Harris prison for simply defending the Constitution.
00:05:11.560 But Steve's case is, I think, the purest example of silencing a political opponent for partisan ends.
00:05:22.960 And next hour, I'm going to get into the weeds of the motion that Steve Bannon filed and why I believe, based on events which have transpired since Steve was put behind bars, that he should be released.
00:05:44.640 So stay tuned for that.
00:05:46.700 In the meantime, you saw in the cold open, Tim Waltz wax eloquent in many different ways.
00:05:56.380 I think there was a huge Freudian slip in that clip.
00:06:00.560 And later on in the show, I'm going to ask Denver to replay just that thing in like a triplet thing where Waltz referred to channels of collaboration with the Communist Chinese.
00:06:16.440 Not cooperation, not cooperation, not coordination, collaboration, collaboration.
00:06:24.120 And that's what Tim Waltz is.
00:06:25.840 He's a collaborator.
00:06:27.760 The Manchurian candidate.
00:06:29.700 That's a term immortalized by the famous Cold War thriller.
00:06:33.920 Maybe you saw the movie, maybe you read the book.
00:06:36.400 It was amazing.
00:06:37.580 It represents a political figure who is unwittingly brainwashed by a foreign power to undermine his own nation.
00:06:45.100 While fiction often mirrors reality in unsettling ways, the story of Kamala Harris's pick for vice president, Tim Waltz, and his kowtowing relationship with Communist China does read like a modern-day remake of that classic book and film.
00:07:01.620 Now, if elected, Waltz would be the highest-ranking U.S. official ever with such extensive ties to Communist China and the Chinese Communist Party.
00:07:12.860 Let's not be naive.
00:07:14.560 China's influence operations are real and they are pervasive.
00:07:18.520 I wrote extensively about these influence operations in my 2011 book, Death by China, and my 2017 book, Crouching Tiger.
00:07:29.340 The Chinese Communist Party has a very long history of using what's called elite capture.
00:07:34.760 That's the targeting of influential figures in foreign countries to advance their agenda.
00:07:39.680 In its elite capture operations, there are thousands, thousands of operatives run out of Beijing and Shanghai.
00:07:49.500 And the CCP, the Chinese Communist Party, uses either honeypots, i.e., the fang-fang seduction of Congressman Eric Swalwell in California. 0.84
00:08:02.240 Remember that?
00:08:02.740 How does Eric Swalwell still serve in Congress after getting, you know, what-ed by fang-fang? 0.85
00:08:10.580 But it's not just the honeypots.
00:08:12.800 With Waltz, it was the moneypots.
00:08:15.500 And these are the things that shower academics, businessmen, and politicos like Waltz with cash, emoluments, and prestigious appointments.
00:08:25.700 Tim Waltz's moneypot history with the CCP has a long and checkered history.
00:08:29.400 Over three decades, Waltz visited China at least 30 times and developed extensive business relationships with Chinese officials.
00:08:38.080 When he was teaching in China, Waltz built a lucrative business that regularly brought American students to the country on the Chinese dime, or yuan, as the case may have been.
00:08:50.300 Not surprisingly, Waltz is famous, famous for, you've seen it, you saw it in the cold open, for lavishing praise on China's authoritarian regime, even as he has called for more cooperation and collaboration.
00:09:07.900 Collaboration, Timmy, Tiananmen Timmy, while criticizing American efforts to hold Beijing accountable.
00:09:17.640 Boy, I'd love to have Hannity do something like this. 1.00
00:09:20.080 Sean, I'm going to send this baby to you.
00:09:24.300 As for his noam de guerre, Tiananmen Timmy, it's shamefully well-deserved. 0.99
00:09:31.760 When I heard this, like, wow, my head exploded.
00:09:36.220 Tim Waltz chose the anniversary date of the Tiananmen Square massacre, not to contend communist Chinese fashion, but to celebrate his wedding day.
00:09:53.220 After his nuptials, Waltz and his bride, who was also fed from the money pot of communist China, that's how the two met, a little suck in the Chinese teat. 0.77
00:10:09.200 They honeymooned.
00:10:10.840 Where'd they go?
00:10:13.140 Not in Hawaii.
00:10:15.260 They didn't go to Paris.
00:10:16.480 They went to Kunming in Yunnan province, ironically, the place where the Flying Tigers flew out of in World War II and liberated what was then a free China.
00:10:29.660 Doesn't this seem like the behavior of someone who consciously or not has become a CCP puppet?
00:10:38.420 Should we not rightfully fear this Manchurian candidate now embedded within our political system who may well advance Beijing's interests at the highest levels of government? 0.69
00:10:49.740 Chinese state-run media has certainly given us an answer to those questions.
00:10:54.180 It was practically giddy when Harris announced Waltz is a running mate.
00:10:59.660 China Daily columnist Chen Weiwei even questioned whether Waltz would be the chosen one to bring so-called sanity to U.S.-China relations.
00:11:09.900 Of course, that's a euphemism for whether Waltz would soften America's stance against Chinese economic and military aggression.
00:11:18.280 The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, led by Chairman James Comer, has already launched a probe into Waltz's connections to CCP-linked entities.
00:11:27.340 He investigates highlights the very real danger that Waltz is being influenced by Beijing, his connections to Chinese government officials, his fellowship at a Chinese university closely tied to the CCP.
00:11:41.260 And here's what freaks me out, his willingness to speak alongside leaders of CCP front groups.
00:11:48.340 They're all red flags.
00:11:50.180 Pun, very much intended.
00:11:53.780 It's not just Waltz's shared ideology with China of socialism that is so troubling.
00:11:58.660 As Waltz once put it, one person's socialism is another person's neighborliness.
00:12:05.840 Oh, really?
00:12:07.160 Tell that to Karl Marx.
00:12:08.480 Waltz's ties to China also present a clear economic and national security risk.
00:12:14.280 As a congressman, Waltz has consistently opposed measures to hold China accountable for its intellectual property theft, currency manipulation, massive dumping, and myriad other forms of economic aggression.
00:12:29.460 Most alarmingly, are you listening, folks in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan?
00:12:35.360 Again, Waltz has opposed the Trump tariffs on Chinese goods, tariffs vital, protecting American industry, steel, aluminum, Detroit, yeah, your auto industry, from Beijing's predatory practices.
00:12:50.760 The national security front, Waltz's reluctance to confront China's aggressive actions in the South China Sea,
00:12:57.360 his tepid response to China's slave labor and human rights abuses, and his dog that won't bark.
00:13:03.780 And, Tim, you are a dog.
00:13:05.960 Your silence on China's aggression against Taiwan raises further troubling questions for an American electric overwhelmingly suspicious of Communist China's intentions.
00:13:16.360 Here's your quote, meaty-ite.
00:13:20.660 Here it is, baby.
00:13:23.200 Raw story.
00:13:25.060 They say who's on the ballot for vice president never makes a difference in the final election.
00:13:31.700 This time it should.
00:13:33.520 It was bad enough when the news leaked out about Tampon Tim, a woke governor who somehow thought it was a good idea to put tampons in boys' bathrooms.
00:13:48.340 It got worse when we learned that as Governor Nero Waltz fiddled with calling up the National Guard during the 2020 George Floyd riots while Minneapolis burned.
00:13:58.340 Now we have Tiananmen Tim, the Manchurian, see-no-evil candidate who will let the CCP have its way with America.
00:14:11.160 In the 2024 presidential election, we're not just choosing leaders, we're choosing the future of our nation.
00:14:19.240 If Harris beats Trump, Waltz will be but a heartbeat away from the presidency.
00:14:25.920 That's damn frightening, folks.
00:14:31.540 Damn frightening.
00:14:34.280 Did I say damn frightening?
00:14:37.620 The Manchurian candidate.
00:14:39.880 We'll be right back with Adam Milan, rising young star in journalism, to talk more about Tim Waltz.
00:14:50.060 Spread the word all through Hong Kong.
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00:16:13.280 Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
00:16:15.760 Peter Kay Navarro in for Stephen K. Bannon.
00:16:24.460 As I said in the next hour, I'm going to do a deep dive on why I strongly believe now that Steve Bannon will be out of prison,
00:16:37.560 sitting at this desk in front of a microphone broadcasting this show at least a month before Election Day.
00:16:47.580 He's in prison now simply to shut him up.
00:16:51.340 He's a political prisoner.
00:16:52.460 I think it's the worst case of the Biden-Harris regime silencing the greatest political strategist we have in this election season.
00:17:08.840 And he's virtually silent because of what lawfare, the weaponization of the justice system has done.
00:17:19.700 So stick around.
00:17:20.740 I'm hoping journalists will watch that as well because you really blew it this week by not reporting more fulsomely on that story.
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00:18:59.560 Hey, give me that clip now. 0.97
00:19:02.720 You got an interesting clip.
00:19:05.280 Let me see if I can see it.
00:19:06.960 I haven't seen this before.
00:19:07.860 What do you got?
00:19:08.260 I haven't seen this before.
00:19:38.260 Denver, you're playing tricks on me, right?
00:19:41.780 You know, I don't speak Chinese.
00:19:43.440 I have no idea what that guy said.
00:19:47.500 Oh, but I do have an idea.
00:19:49.420 I can bring in Adam Milan in Adam's corner.
00:19:55.100 He's a new face on the War Room.
00:19:58.500 And he does speak and read Chinese fluently.
00:20:03.940 Adam, welcome to the War Room, brother.
00:20:06.020 I wanted you to reflect a little bit on my opening monologue, talk a little bit about what you know about Tim Walz.
00:20:13.160 But what was that clip all about?
00:20:16.300 What's the Chinese press, the communist Chinese propaganda press, saying about Tim Walz?
00:20:23.160 Do they hate the guy or love the guy?
00:20:24.480 Yes, that's a clip from a commentator with Phoenix TV, which is a major state-run TV station based in Hong Kong.
00:20:33.780 And he's saying that if it weren't for Tim Walz's deep connections to China, maybe Harris would be harder on China.
00:20:42.920 So he's overall optimistic about the prospect of Tim Walz having a softening effect on U.S. policy towards China.
00:20:51.000 And he's saying that they need to use the next 90 days or so to observe and to use reason to find out what exactly what effect Tim Walz is going to have on a potential Harris-Waltz administration with regard to U.S. policy towards China.
00:21:08.780 Adam, is it clear that communist China and the CCP have chosen their candidate in this race?
00:21:16.080 And who is it?
00:21:16.660 I think it's clear in that we have that op-ed with China Daily with Chun Weihua saying that he hopes, as you mentioned, that Harris and Walz could bring sanity, that Walz could bring sanity, as he says, to the U.S.-China relationship.
00:21:34.280 Of course, that just means softening our stance on China.
00:21:37.580 So I think that it's clear that with Walz in the mix, Harris-Waltz would be a clear favorite for the CCP and for communist China.
00:21:45.340 And you've been digging around.
00:21:48.680 Like I said, you have a master's in journalism from Colombia.
00:21:55.040 You're fluent, both written and speaking in Mandarin.
00:21:59.920 What have you been able to uncover with respect to Tim Walz?
00:22:06.640 If you were to write a profile of Tim Walz based on what you've seen, what would the high points be that American voters might want to consider when they go to the ballot box?
00:22:22.680 Well, you've mentioned several of them.
00:22:24.180 He first went to China in 1989, and he taught there as a teacher in Foshan in Guangdong province.
00:22:33.300 And he went back almost every year taking students there until about 2003.
00:22:39.280 He was an international fellow at a state-run institution called the Macau Polytechnic Institute.
00:22:44.240 And he started a company called Educational Travel Adventures to take students to China.
00:22:51.480 And according to the letter from James Comer to Christopher Wray, that company was only dissolved days after he became a member of Congress.
00:23:01.920 So he has deep ties to China.
00:23:03.940 He's also called for President Trump in 2019 to end the trade war with China, as he said on Twitter.
00:23:12.520 And that was in August of 2019.
00:23:14.740 He went on a trip to Asia in September, and he said that he doesn't think that the China market can be replaced.
00:23:21.020 He thinks that the Chinese market is necessary for the United States.
00:23:25.120 So that's clear that he doesn't want to decouple from China.
00:23:28.420 And that's an issue.
00:23:30.240 If I could say I'm here in Northwest Indiana in the heart of the steel belt, and my father is a U.S. Navy veteran and has worked as a steel worker for over 30 years.
00:23:41.420 And I know he's very proud to see me here on the War Room with you.
00:23:45.540 And I just want to say thank you for standing up for us.
00:23:49.480 Thank you for fighting for us.
00:23:50.760 And thank you for defending us with tariffs against the economic aggression of totalitarian China. 0.54
00:23:58.380 And Tim Walsh clearly would not do anything close to that.
00:24:03.840 Adam, is there any politician in America who is in any way comparable to Tim Walsh with respect to how compromised Walsh is, given his history?
00:24:19.680 Is there anybody who's anything like that in any kind of position of power or whoever has been?
00:24:24.840 I think you mentioned the clear one, which is Eric Swalwell.
00:24:28.920 That's a clear example.
00:24:30.820 Yeah.
00:24:32.100 So is it a fact that Walsh, when he was bringing his students over and then doing a business to bring students over, how much was the Chinese communist paying for those students? 0.66
00:24:49.900 I heard that.
00:24:50.780 Is that an accurate thing?
00:24:51.920 James Comer, in his letter, said that at least one trip involved Chinese funding to bring U.S. students to China.
00:25:00.060 So that appears to be the case based on James Comer's letter to Christopher Wray.
00:25:04.620 So you've heard in my monologue I referred to this notion of elite capture, influence operations.
00:25:13.600 You're very familiar with communist China.
00:25:17.360 Can you talk a little bit about how they go ahead and try to get American politicians with money pots and honey pots?
00:25:25.000 Yes.
00:25:26.000 Well, you mentioned the example with Eric Swalwell and Fang Fang, which would be the honey pot example.
00:25:32.320 And then, of course, there's the money pot, which involves the exchange programs like the ones that Tim Walsh was involved in.
00:25:40.060 And so funding trips to China, you know, actually, well, James Comer mentions in his letter that that at the time that he was a fellow at the Macau Polytechnic Institute, Tim Walsh had significant credit card debt.
00:25:55.960 And so, you know, there's certainly the possibility that some financial considerations could be involved.
00:26:02.900 Also, you know, these plum, you know, fellowships at Chinese universities are in the mix as well when it comes to the money pot example.
00:26:12.400 Do we have any transparency into how much Walt and his wife, remember, his wife was here at the same time, I believe, how much they might have received from that money pot?
00:26:24.140 Don't have a concrete amount at this time that I've seen.
00:26:29.220 And neither one of us are surprised at that, right?
00:26:35.700 That's going to be a secret right up to Election Day, I would imagine.
00:26:39.320 But I suspect it runs in the tens of thousands of dollars or more.
00:26:45.120 So I've asked you to, going forward, do a little regular appearances here.
00:26:54.540 And the idea behind what Adam Milan can bring to the war room is that he can monitor what the Chinese press is saying about the race.
00:27:10.800 And sometimes it only happens in the Chinese language papers rather than the English translations and things like that.
00:27:22.480 Is there anything you want to add as we go to the break really quickly?
00:27:26.740 You have 30 seconds here.
00:27:30.320 Well, I think it's very notable that he's called for President Trump to end the trade war.
00:27:34.580 That was at the height of the great work that you and President Trump were doing to put tariffs on China and to stop China's economic aggression.
00:27:41.580 And that's that's a big issue.
00:27:45.080 And, yeah, I think I think that's something I'd like to add that, you know, he he wants to end the trade war.
00:27:50.240 He doesn't realize, apparently, that the trade war.
00:27:52.260 Another day, another breaking news story buried.
00:27:55.060 They rather talk about anything else than what's really going on.
00:27:58.100 It's not because they don't know what's happening.
00:28:00.420 The media pundits and talking heads just don't want to pay any attention to it.
00:28:04.980 And they particularly don't want you paying any attention to it.
00:28:07.540 The real stories, you have to look beyond the headlines for them.
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00:29:27.800 Look, in a minute, I'm going to bring in James Fennell, one of my heroes, longtime acquaintances
00:29:39.440 and friends going back to the transition of the Trump first term back in 2016.
00:29:47.400 And the way I want to just quickly set this up, we're going to be talking about how Thailand,
00:29:53.980 where I actually served in the Peace Corps for three years, I know the country well, where
00:29:57.740 Thailand just announced it was not buying F-16s from the United States, but rather it's going
00:30:07.040 with a European supplier in Sweden.
00:30:12.200 And this one hits close to home for me because, although I've never been a car salesman, I
00:30:21.640 was kind of the F-16 salesman in the White House for President Trump.
00:30:27.160 Arms transfers, particularly aircraft like the F-16, were really an important part of the
00:30:35.940 Trump economic and military policy.
00:30:39.700 Economically, when you make F-16s here in the United States, that's a bunch of jobs, a 0.96
00:30:46.520 good wages.
00:30:47.860 And from a security point of view, when you transfer arms to allies, that reduces the need
00:30:57.580 for American boots on the ground.
00:31:00.180 And that's a good thing, too.
00:31:02.340 So we had a robust F-16 and arms sales program.
00:31:08.320 We were always getting our knees cut off by woke libs in the State Department, and I had 1.00
00:31:15.300 to deal with that with a heavy hand.
00:31:18.920 And I'm happy to say I did it successfully.
00:31:22.180 We got a lot of stuff done in Trump time.
00:31:24.020 And so when I heard about this, this one hits really close to home, and I want to bring
00:31:33.400 Jim Fennell in now, the director of intelligence for the Pacific Fleet.
00:31:41.780 He was at the front lines of the war against communist China.
00:31:45.420 He did ruffle some feathers in the Pentagon.
00:31:47.520 Jim, the mic's yours, man.
00:31:50.660 Just tell the people why this is a failure of Kamala Harris and Joe Biden yet again in
00:31:57.740 the foreign policy arena, sir.
00:32:00.420 Well, first of all, Peter, thanks for having me here.
00:32:02.820 And we always remember where Steve's at in the fight that we're in.
00:32:06.060 I want to start off my remarks by referencing an op-ed that came out on the 21st of August
00:32:13.400 in the Washington Post from former Vice President Mike Pence.
00:32:16.540 It was entitled, We Cannot Give In to Isolationists, Taiwan Must Not Fail.
00:32:21.720 A new and troubling strain of isolationism is emerging in the Republican Party.
00:32:27.220 And I just want to refute that in the sense that every time I've been on the war room, I've
00:32:32.220 only talked about things that deal with our operations and national security interests in
00:32:38.140 Asia and dealing with communist China, who's an avowed enemy.
00:32:41.600 You just heard Adam mention since 1949.
00:32:45.000 And so I think it's important that we put that out there because there's people that
00:32:49.020 are trying to detract from President Trump and the campaign and trying to paint us in
00:32:53.920 as America first, as America alone.
00:32:56.040 And that's not what we're about.
00:32:57.120 And your opening to this segment clearly demonstrate that you fundamentally clearly recognize that.
00:33:03.680 And that by building these F-16s and other platforms like this, you bring jobs to Americans.
00:33:09.620 And they're not a hollowed out industrial force, as we saw over the last 30 years as we
00:33:14.700 transitioned our workforce to the PRC.
00:33:17.360 In this specific case, we can back up to 18 August, just almost two weeks ago.
00:33:24.940 They declared a new prime minister, installed a new prime minister in Thailand.
00:33:29.760 It's the daughter of former prime minister Thaksin, who had been a controversial prime minister
00:33:34.880 over a decade ago, had to be chased out of Thailand, had some ties to the PRC, very sympathetic
00:33:42.300 to the PRC.
00:33:43.220 Well, his daughter is now the prime minister.
00:33:46.260 And three days after she's announced as prime minister, the Royal Thai Air Force announces
00:33:51.340 that they're going to go with the Swedish Saab Gripen as the replacement aircraft for their
00:33:56.580 50-plus F-16s, aging F-16s that they have.
00:34:01.920 And so this is another example where we have had benign neglect or even malicious neglect
00:34:08.280 of one of our oldest treaty allies.
00:34:10.480 We go back to 1833 with the Kingdom of Thailand, with the Treaty of Amity and Commerce.
00:34:18.740 So that's 190 years that we've had treaty relations with Thailand.
00:34:24.280 Since the 50s, we've had defense treaties with them.
00:34:28.020 And so they're a longtime ally and friend of ours.
00:34:30.480 And we have been, over the last decade, essentially turning our back on the Kingdom of Thailand.
00:34:36.260 And it started under the Obama administration when the Thais had what they frequently have
00:34:42.580 had over the years.
00:34:43.600 Sometimes these government officials go against the political establishment and the will of
00:34:49.420 the people.
00:34:49.960 And so there's what they have, bloodless coups.
00:34:52.520 And in 2014, there was a bloodless coup.
00:34:55.640 And the military took over for a while until King Rama, Bhumipol, took over or brought them 0.97
00:35:02.480 in and resolved the situation.
00:35:03.880 But when that happened, the Obama administration and their State Department freaked out and
00:35:10.140 caused a big furor and made a big issue out of it.
00:35:14.380 And basically, we said, until you resolve this and you get the military out, we're not going
00:35:18.720 to deal with you.
00:35:19.740 And that really affected the people of Thailand and their sensibilities and why we would take
00:35:25.780 such a strong stance against something that didn't hurt anybody.
00:35:28.880 It was their form of how they deal with things politically.
00:35:31.180 And so since that time, for the last 10 years, we've watched the relations deteriorate.
00:35:37.420 And now we see the result of that with the Thais now saying we're not going to go with America
00:35:42.820 for the F-16.
00:35:45.120 We've seen also that the Thais have gone to China for frigates, submarines.
00:35:50.060 They're working with China on this idea of building a canal across the Thai Peninsula, the Krah Peninsula.
00:35:57.660 The Krah Isthmus Canal is 27 miles wide.
00:36:00.360 That hasn't occurred yet, but they're talking with them.
00:36:02.820 Cambodia is another nation in that region of Southeast Asia, just the next-door neighbor 0.80
00:36:07.200 to Thailand.
00:36:08.120 They just announced here this week that they're going to build a 111-mile canal that connects
00:36:13.420 the Mekong with the Gulf of Thailand so that they can divert water and resources down there.
00:36:17.800 Jim, if I may hear, if I may hear just for a minute, Cambodia has long been a lost cause.
00:36:27.940 They are deep, deep within the armpits of communist China. 0.73
00:36:33.540 So nothing surprises me about that.
00:36:36.080 But Thailand, it's a beautiful, independent-minded country that has long been one of our allies.
00:36:46.920 And I remember when I was in the Peace Corps, I was up on the Thai border in the Northeast province.
00:36:55.740 And that's where the bombers actually flew out of Udon Tani in the Korn Panom.
00:37:05.580 That's where they flew out to bomb Hanoi.
00:37:09.380 And I could hear them going over my schoolhouses, as it were.
00:37:16.760 And I believe, I think we had a conversation about this.
00:37:19.920 You may well have been over in that area at the same time as an intelligence officer.
00:37:26.100 And my point is that back then, Thailand was very cooperative and important in our foreign
00:37:33.200 and military policy.
00:37:35.480 They were our friends and allies.
00:37:37.760 And I just want to let people know, listening to this, that it's a crime to let Thailand slip
00:37:45.160 into the communist Chinese orb.
00:37:49.200 It's this self-inflicted, woke kind of wound of this John Kerry, Kamala Harris, Biden-style
00:37:58.960 foreign policy, where if we disagree somehow with something they do, whoever it is, we punish
00:38:09.880 them.
00:38:10.320 And that just pushes them right into communist Chinese hands. 0.93
00:38:14.840 And so microphone back to you.
00:38:16.900 Were you up in that area when I—because I wanted you to be the ambassador to Thailand.
00:38:23.280 We actually worked that.
00:38:25.040 When you got in—when Trump got in in 2016, I thought you would have been a hell of an
00:38:31.000 ambassador either to China or Thailand.
00:38:33.420 Sir?
00:38:33.720 Well, Peter, I wasn't there as early as you were, but I was there in the 85, 86 timeframe,
00:38:40.100 and I was working in an orphanage in northern Thailand in Chiang Rai, which is about 60 kilometers
00:38:46.340 south of the Burmese border.
00:38:47.840 And I had spent some time, like you, in a situation where you're working around the Thai people and you get to learn—meet them and know them, learn about
00:38:57.600 their history, learn about their sense of independence and their devotion to freedom, and the fact that they take their sovereignty very seriously, just like most nations do, and we should.
00:39:07.780 And so when we turned our back on them in that event in 2014, it's just been—like you—it's been very troubling for me to watch this and think about the people that are supposedly the experts in our State Department,
00:39:21.780 the people that are supposed to have this special knowledge of understanding our friends and allies, completely just do an ideological position on this, and it's a position that really just offended the Thais and have set us back.
00:39:36.780 And if—and I mention Cambodia only in the sense—and I agree with you, nothing that Cambodia surprises me—but I mention that because China uses Cambodia to pressurize Thailand.
00:39:46.780 And that's why the canal and the Navy base at Reem and Chinese warships now operating in the Gulf of Thailand are all parts of the Chinese comprehensive national strategy to bring Thailand into their orbit.
00:39:59.780 And they're doing that.
00:40:01.780 And we are, unfortunately, hit or miss on who we send to Thailand to represent the American government, and the values that we represent don't seem well aligned.
00:40:12.780 Yeah, that's another big oversight, Jim.
00:40:15.780 And I can tell you this.
00:40:17.780 If Donald Trump were in the White House and that news had broken—never would have happened if he was—but if that news had broken, we'd be sitting there and he'd be talking to the top leaders of Thailand, making sure that they reverse that decision.
00:40:36.780 And that's the kind of thing you would do.
00:40:39.780 And look, this stuff goes right over the head of the Kamala Harris's and Biden's and Blinkin's and all of that.
00:40:46.780 But it's a lot of jobs, Jim, and it's a lot of security that we're not going to have in the South China Sea.
00:40:53.780 We've got our aircraft carriers out there. 0.98
00:40:56.780 Anyway, just take—we've got a minute to break.
00:41:01.780 Take this last minute and finish up your thoughts, if you would, and let us know how people can get a hold of you and your great book.
00:41:08.780 Sure.
00:41:09.780 I just mentioned one other major element of this story, which is the industrial base and the supply chain and how we produce aircraft.
00:41:17.780 We're producing aircraft—we used to produce F-16s in Fort Worth.
00:41:21.780 Well, we moved that in our infinite wisdom to South Carolina, and we're only producing three F-16s a month.
00:41:27.780 And we have to supply other allies in Romania and Bulgaria and other parts of the world.
00:41:32.780 And we're not—it's taking seven years from the time a contract is signed to get a F-16 to an ally.
00:41:38.780 That's not going to work.
00:41:39.780 So we have diplomatic problems, we have industrial supply problems, and we have a Pentagon that's failing.
00:41:46.780 We have flag officers, general officers, senior executive service people all getting paid $200,000 a year to do what?
00:41:54.780 To watch us lose?
00:41:55.780 It just doesn't make sense.
00:41:58.780 I was actually at the ribbon-cutting for that South Carolina plant.
00:42:07.780 And again, I tell you, if Trump were president, they'd be pumping out planes a lot faster than that.
00:42:16.780 Jim Fennell—by the way, Jim and his partner in beautiful crime, Brad Thayer, wrote a very nice chapter in my new book, The New Maga Deal, The Unofficial Deplorables Guide to the Trump 2024 Platform.
00:42:35.780 The newmagadeal.com, newmagadeal.com.
00:42:38.780 You can check out Jim and Brad's writings.
00:42:42.780 Nobody does it better than those guys on China.
00:42:44.780 So I'm glad Jim could bring us stuff.
00:42:49.780 Again, you don't hear any of that stuff elsewhere.
00:42:53.780 That's solid analysis right from the front lines.
00:42:56.780 Peter Kay Navarro, that's what we do here on the War Room.
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00:43:01.780 I'm going to tell you why he may get out of prison soon.
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00:44:37.780 As I noted, in the next hour, we're going to do a little breaking news on why, based on the motion that Steve's lawyers filed this week, I believe there's a very, very good chance that Steve will be taken out of his political prisoner muzzled status.
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00:45:08.780 Steve is the premier political strategist right now in this country.
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00:49:38.780 CNN, as bad as it is on the lefty side, you usually have at least some TV on something when there's breaking news on this.
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00:49:53.780 There's subsequent events that have happened since they put Steve behind bars that really strongly point in the direction of letting him out.
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