00:03:59Let's go ahead and play the cold open from the Oval Office today.
00:04:03Let's go ahead and play that, and then we're going to bring in our own Neal McCabe.
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00:04:23We're also pleased to be joined by Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnik, Secretary of Energy Chris Wright,
00:04:29Senator Joni Ernst, who's done a wonderful job, and I'm going to miss you, Joni.
00:04:34I can't believe you. But you are right. Are you sure?
00:04:41Thank you, Mr. President. Governor Kim Reynolds, representatives Marionette Miller-Meeks and Ashley Hinson.
00:04:49And I saw some good polls just recently. You're doing well, Ashley. I saw that. Looks like you're doing well. You should do well.
00:04:56Iowa Attorney General Brenna Byrne has been with me right from the beginning and Export-Import Bank Chairman John Jovanovic.
00:08:16Independent media is getting the same pool feed that the mainstream media gets.
00:08:21And now with the notes and kind of the way we're framing it so people can actually understand what's going on and see it with their own eyes with disintermediate the mainstream media for the next orders of the world.
00:08:33And people are using it to really drive traffic to their their pages as they should or to their Twitter feeds as they as they should.
00:10:02And there's a live view backpack that replaced the satellite truck.
00:10:07And so back in the day, when you're dealing with satellite trucks and dishes and everything else, yeah, it was a problem and you needed a big corporation.
00:10:26They're wailing and ganashing their teeth.
00:10:28And in the New York Times, the former president of the White House Correspondents Association said that at one point, Rav put the president's life in danger because of their coverage.
00:10:39And I was thinking, really? You mean like that dinner you hosted for him earlier this year?
00:10:45It's it's the dinner with no security, the dinner with the shotgun.
00:12:12And I think, Rav, it's better color, better cameras.
00:12:14And now with the with the rav rav pool dot org, you go there, you sign up for the for the the notes, you sign up there for how you can contextualize exactly where these photos taking place.
00:12:28it makes independent journalists and particularly people that are on social media it gives them
00:12:34a a constant flow of high quality content that they can then take a take and put their you know
00:12:40their their contextual uh meaning onto what's going on neil neil mccabe well as a good catholic
00:12:48i'm not thrilled with the invention of the printing press because it tended to overturn a
00:12:53lot of my world but there was a decentralization of this technology that empowers other people
00:13:01and so maybe not talk about Guggenheim but talk about Thomas Paine and that's kind of where we're
00:13:06at and you know these guys they they really did strut around here with that attitude and it was
00:13:14uh it was I don't want to say obnoxious because that wouldn't be polite but there definitely was
00:13:19that chip on their shoulder that they were part of a different class or cast,
00:13:24and it's completely overturned because we've solved the mystery, right?
00:19:11What is the situation here with these courts?
00:19:13Well, let me give you an example. So I believe this was heard in Westminster Magistrates' Court. And Westminster Magistrates' Court, one of the magistrates there, one of the judges, is a chap called Tanwir Ikram.
00:19:25And Tanwur Ikram last year released, or rather they were charged and sentenced these Palestine solidarity activists in London who were marching around with Hamas-style paragliders.
00:19:42They were subsequently found guilty of doing that. But the magistrate, this Tanwar Ikram, effectively sentenced them to a 12-month conditional discharge, which meant they served no time for the crime.
00:20:00they were found guilty of. Another terror legislation charge, by the way. And to add
00:20:07to that one of the most heinous things I think I've seen in a long time, this magistrate,
00:20:15Tanwe Ekram, was then found having liked a post on LinkedIn, and I'm going to read it to you here,0.76
00:20:21that said, free, free Palestine to the Israeli terrorists, both in the United Kingdom,
00:20:27the United States, and of course Israel. You can run, you can bomb, but you cannot hide.0.94
00:20:33Justice will be coming for you. He wasn't reprimanded. He said that he simply made a
00:20:39mistake in liking that post. And so I'm not accusing Tanwar Ikram of doing anything in this
00:20:45case. In fact, I don't even know yet if he was the magistrate in this case. But that gives you,
00:20:51and it's a very small magistrate's court, it gives you an example of precisely how the court system
00:20:56works here in London. It's small, but a lot of important cases come because of Westminster.
00:21:04How are magistrate judges selected? Is this a Labour government selecting these? Is there
00:21:08some sort of process of their selection that they have to go through confirmation like you do here
00:21:13in the States and get blue slip here so that the minority in this case, Nigel Farage or the Tory
00:21:21Party can stand up to? How are these judges picked? You know, that's a question for the
00:21:26legally minded. I'm not entirely aware of how the magistrates court select their magistrates,
00:21:31but the fact that he was caught doing this and faced no penalty suggests that the court system
00:21:39itself, and of course, you know, people know this. One of the things you hear all over this country
00:21:44at the moment is that there isn't an effective sentencing counsel. There isn't an effective
00:21:50court system. You know, the backlog is extraordinary. We have no prison places left in
00:21:55this country. And the Labour government refuses to build any more capacity. It's a broken system,
00:22:03a completely broken system. And so to remove these people, I'm sure would be extremely,
00:22:08extremely difficult. We still get videos all the time that Christians praying outside of0.99
00:22:15abortion centers are rounded up. Tommy Robinson, I think, was stopped the other day for like the
00:22:19fourth time his phones and everything were taken. Is the system weighted against people that
00:22:27heretofore thought they had free speech liberty in the United Kingdom, that even Christians praying0.93
00:22:33outside of abortion clinics or people demonstrating against this Islamic takeover0.90
00:22:38are the ones that are targeted, whereas the Islamists, I mean, it's kind of mind-boggling
00:22:42that somebody that was associated with a terrorist attack that's actually charged with some element0.78
00:22:48associated with it, and bail set can be let out in 24 hours. I mean, people are pretty gobsmacked
00:22:56about that, sir. I mean, if you wanted to create mass panic, that's one of the ways to create it,
00:23:03right? Because they haven't given any further information as to how these people can move
00:23:07about. They've said the conditions on their movement. What conditions on their movement?
00:23:10Where can they go? These people were from London. This attack happened, or attempted attack,
00:23:15as we're told happened uh some some two hours outside london so is it there is it here um you
00:23:21know it just completely unclear um extremely little detail that we're being given um and and
00:23:29you know you talk about the the social contract effectively right that how that's all uh broken
00:23:37down people i mean people will remember the case of henry novak right whose whose last words uh
00:23:43you know, well, I think I've been stabbed, and the police said to him, don't think you have me.
00:23:49There is multi-tiered policing and multi-tiered justice going on in the United Kingdom.
00:23:56And of course, it's more than just talking about Islam and the way minorities are treated.0.55
00:24:04You have to talk about specifically how white people are being treated as second-class citizens
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00:30:00Welcome back, and thank you. Andy Brown joins us now, the China editor for Summerforce. So, Andy,
00:30:06we covered wall-to-wall because we were the pool feed now when the mainstream media kind of cut
00:30:12off the access to or wouldn't put up anything on the summit. One of the things we kept hearing in
00:30:18that, and I thought the business element of this was under an hour. There was a lot of pomp and
00:30:23circumstance and a lot of obviously folks, you know, spending time at dinners and things like
00:30:29this, but the actual business part of it was quite concentrated. Although you come and make a great
00:30:36point that you saw this, even for maybe the lack of substance that occurred in these meetings
00:30:42or anything that was announced or any of the readouts, that the headline to your piece is
00:30:46the U.S.-China tectonic plates have shifted. So a tectonic plate shift in the relationship. Can
00:30:55you explain, how did you derive that from what you saw? What is your evidence and what does it mean?
00:31:00Okay, so what I saw was lavish ceremony. And the ceremony begins on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews, where President Trump is there waiting for Xi Jinping, the Chinese leader, to emerge from his Air China Boeing 747.
00:31:23The first time that a U.S. leader has met a foreign leader at the airbase since 1962, when John F. Kennedy met Harold Macmillan.
00:31:37The difference being that the U.K. then and still is a close partner of the United States.
00:31:42And China is America's paramount adversary.
00:31:47And, you know, what we've seen over the weekend is the Chinese state media cock a hoop over this symbolism.
00:31:57And what this tells the people of China through state media is the United States president, the Chinese leader, are now equals.
00:32:10It's Goldust because next year he's got a big Communist Party meeting where he's expecting to get a fourth five-year term in office, 20 years altogether, emperor for life.
00:32:25But also it's very, very significant for the Chinese people.0.90
00:32:28I mean, they know propaganda when they see it. But what they're looking for really is for foreign leaders, foreign governments to endorse their leader and their system.
00:32:41And that's exactly what we saw, that the number one hashtag on social media over the weekend was the U.S. and China are now equals and and pointing and specifically, specifically pointing attention to that greeting on the tarmac at Joint Air Base Andrews.
00:33:03was there other things because i'm gonna bring up two about the um about the they're saying how
00:33:12we were allies in world war ii and also the facility's trap but outside of the greeting
00:33:19at andrews which i agree with it was extraordinary i mean harold we met uh he met harold mcmillan
00:33:26and i think mcmillan was the first conservative prime minister after churchill and we were only
00:33:32what, 16 years after World War II. And that relationship was so central. There's so many
00:33:39things happening against the Soviet Union, particularly about nuclear weapons. And, you
00:33:45know, Kennedy was very, you know, trying to push a test ban treaty. I mean, going out to greet
00:33:50Harold Macmillan didn't seem so extraordinary at the time. This is kind of breathtaking because
00:33:56Americans have just never seen it in living memory.
00:34:02Yeah, I was going to say, I mean, breathtaking when you think about the headlines that, you know, were being generated here in the United States as he's landed,
00:34:11which is all giving a breakdown of how China is supplying Iran with parts to make their ballistic missiles more accurate, with imaging technology to help these missiles kill U.S. service personnel in Jordan.
00:34:31Similar, very similar playbook to what we see in Ukraine, China arming Russia to pummel Ukraine.
00:34:41You know, and it's such a contrast between, you know, how the geopolitical reality of this relationship and then the, you know, the messaging that we're getting out of the White House, which is solicitous, is deferential, and of course all this now being played out in the Chinese media.
00:35:03What about the rest of the time? I mean, the state dinner, the meetings President Trump showing him around, the teas, all that. How did that play into that, the solicitous nature of this?
00:35:17Yeah, you know, it's interesting what you say about World War II. I mean, it's good that you
00:35:23picked up on that. I mean, if you look at the readout, the Chinese readout and the U.S. readout,
00:35:30one of the items in the Chinese readout was that the U.S. and China had agreed to keep going with
00:35:37the search for U.S. missing military personnel from the Vietnam War, from the earlier Korean War,
00:35:44And then from World War II, when, of course, the United States and China were allies. That was, of course, during the nationalist administration in China. But what that's really all about is anti-Japan, right?
00:36:00I mean, who were the United States and who was the United States? These pilots, the flying tigers who then flew over the hump, bringing supplies from allies to China. Who were they fighting against? They were fighting against Japan.
00:36:13And Japan, of course, is now China is trying to establish the idea that Japan is a resurgent militarist power in the Asia Pacific.
00:36:24And so they're trying to sort of bring the United States at least optically on board this idea that the two of them now need to fight against Japanese militarism in Asia,
00:36:35which is, of course, complete nonsense since Japan has, of course, spent the intervening years since the end of World War II spreading development around the world and being essentially a model global citizen.
00:36:49So we picked up on two. One was World War II. The other was Thucydides Trap.
00:36:55Both of them were in the talk, the remarks, in the foyer and then at the dinner that night.0.87
00:37:00And when the Chinese go out of their way with the limited time that they had to make both of them, one, we take pride in, we think it's a response to war room because we have a huge through VPN audience in mainland China of Lao Bai Jing, which is the anti-CCP movement or Lao Bai Jing's old hundred names, but fuels the anti-CCP movement.0.95
00:37:23We have made arguments forever. You know, Wan Shishan and others have been on this big analysis of the legitimacy of their rule.0.87
00:37:32And this gets to the Chinese Civil War and the end of World War II.
00:37:36The Chinese Communist Party, we hammer this all the day.
00:37:38Lao Ba Jing and the Chinese people were our allies.
00:37:40I think they lost 35 million people fighting the Imperial Japanese Army and, quite frankly, bled them out to the degree they could in Manchuria and other places.
00:37:49If those frontline troops had been in the three-island chain, we'd still be fighting across to get LeMay's bombers to Saipan.0.93
00:37:58But the Chinese – it was as corrupt and incompetent as Chiang Kai-shek and the nationalists were.0.97
00:38:11They were waiting for after the war, for a civil war that they were going to initiate.0.73
00:38:15And then the United States later, the State Department, essentially when they won, quote unquote, the battles, some of the big battles in the Civil War, we turned the country over to them.
00:38:26That's a sore point, part of their legitimacy.
00:38:29And they're trying to make a thing like we were allies in World War II.
00:38:33We were allies with the Chinese people like we were allies to the Russian people.
00:38:38Stalin and the Bolsheviks and the Soviets, maybe not.
00:38:41But the Russian people gave 60 or 65 million.0.67
00:38:44The Chinese people bled out in World War Two. And to bring that up twice shows you it's a it's a it's a subject that they're trying to work around, does it?
00:38:53Because they don't bring things up. Every time I tell people when they make these talks, you should take it like a paper bowl.
00:39:00They they work these things through. Nothing is they don't wing anything.
00:39:05Anything is very thought through. And I thought it was extraordinary that twice they brought up the situation in World War Two.
00:39:11and they put out the great eight things that happened over the weekend, the eight outcomes,
00:39:16I think the alliance in World War II was number four, which would shock me.
00:39:21But they're purposely trying to drive this message.
00:39:29That, you know, it's interesting that, well, of course, you're completely right.
00:39:34The communists were husbanding their resources after the Japanese invaded.
00:39:41And it was the nationalists that was doing most of the nationalist armies that were doing most of the fighting.
00:39:46There's a line of argument that says, well, you know, it's not it's not terrible to have these these summits, these high level meetings between U.S. and Chinese leaders.
00:39:57You know, George Or is better than World War.
00:40:00But as my friend Matt Pottinger says, Matt was a former colleague of mine at the Wall Street Journal and ended up in the National Security Council and the first Trump administration.
00:40:13You know, he says that China uses these discussions constantly to probe for U.S. weaknesses.
00:40:19And this is one of the weaknesses that they're probing for is they're trying to drive a wedge between the United States and Japan.
00:40:29and probing for weaknesses, generally in the U.S. posture in the Asia-Pacific, and specifically, and very, very importantly, over Taiwan.
00:40:39And Taiwan did come up. We heard from David Perdue, the U.S. ambassador to China, that they did discuss arms sales to Taiwan.
00:40:50And of course, you know, under the 1982 six assurances that the Reagan administration gave to Taiwan, the U.S. is not supposed to be discussing arms sales to Taiwan.
00:41:08They did. And then mind-blowingly, the U.S. president suggests that, you know, the U.S. might actually sell military equipment to China.
00:41:20And this is from straight from the U.S. ambassador.
00:41:31If so, you know, I don't think that Taiwan, I don't think that Japan, I don't think that the Philippines suffering now from, you know, Chinese intimidation, military bullying, saw the joke.
00:41:47No, but the good news is from what Perdue said, there's no change to the relationship.
00:41:53And President Trump said there's not going to be a change now.
00:41:56They have not publicly committed to getting, I think it's a $14 billion additional sale.
00:42:02I don't think that's been actually moved forward.
00:42:47And let's also see what the mix of the arms sales to Taiwan is going to be.
00:42:52Very important for Taiwan right now to be buying the right stuff to give them the best shot at deterring a Chinese invasion, you know, amid this unprecedented military intimidation, which includes which includes overtly practicing by China for a blockade or quarantine of China, of Taiwan, of course, with the goal of getting Taiwan to run up the white flag.
00:43:20This is not exercises anymore. They're training. These are training exercises. This is not, you know, this is like planning for events.
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00:43:52And he talked to Philip Patrick and his team and do it today.
00:43:56If you're 65 or already on Medicare, listen up, folks, and grab a pen, maybe even a number two pencil.
00:46:44It was quite you could tell he was moved and talking about about what had happened to his family, particularly his mother's side of the family in World War Two.
00:46:51So it's a big deal. He also mentioned twice Thucydides' trap.
00:46:56And this comes off it being his opening volley in the Beijing meetings.
00:47:00Now, Andy, we took umbrage with that because in the war room's interpretation, that means he's implying that we're the declining power and declining powers in Graham Allison and Henry Kissinger's construct of Athens and Sparta and Thucydides' trap.
00:47:18The declining power is always the dangerous one because they wildly grasp at certain ways to stop the ascending power.
00:47:27Well, I think that's exactly right, that this is a rhetorical play.
00:47:35They've adopted Graham Allison, the author of The Thucydides Trap, as their favorite U.S. figure, in a sense, a sort of the latter-day Henry Kissinger.
00:47:48But as you say, it's a framing that's designed, and by the way, even in its original, there is no such thing as a Thucydides Trap.
00:47:56It doesn't exist. But the way that they framed it and the way that Alison frames it in this book is this idea, yes, of a declining power, lashing out at a rising power with China being the rising power.
00:48:08And this is, of course, mirrored in the phrase that you often hear from Xi Jinping, that the West is declining and the East is rising.
00:48:22And as the West declines, as the U.S. declines, it is at its most dangerous because it's tempted to lash out because it is weak and because it is afraid.
00:48:34And, of course, that is a framing that Xi Jinping uses domestically and, of course, wildly underestimates the strengths of the United States and underestimates the weaknesses of China, which are very manifest now in an economy that is in great distress.
00:48:53Indeed, it's one of the reasons why Xi is not unhappy to come to the United States and just talk because it buys him time.
00:49:02And similarly, on the U.S. side, the U.S. needs the time to manage some of the difficulties that it has with China, not least rare earths and a whole range of other choke points that China now has on the U.S. can use against the U.S. economy.
00:49:20Andy, given how, because this is an imperial court, you can't understand the Chinese Communist Party unless you understand the imperial history of our oldest and arguably one of our greatest civilizations, China.0.53
00:49:35This is a calculated insult to us, is it not?0.58
00:49:39Because when they mentioned Thucydides' trap in the context of China and the United States, Graham Allison, Henry Kissinger, Xi, they buy into the fact that we're the declining power, that they are the rising power, right?0.61
00:50:00I was shocked when he – at Beijing in the opening volley, I was like, wow, because I had Greg Madison here for lunch one time for three hours plus and went through all of this in great detail, of which I'm not a huge fan of their analysis.
00:50:14But it's a calculated insult, is it not, that say in the White House and then at the form of dinner where the declining power and by the theory – by the city's trap theory, you're the dangerous one because you're going to strike out as you slip into oblivion, sir?
00:50:32Yeah, it's essentially calculated to load all of the blame for problems in the US-China relationship on the US side.
00:50:43It's the declining power lashing out and, you know, blame on the trade side, on frictions over technology and so on.
00:50:52And plus the implication that as a declining power, the United States will do anything and everything to hold China down, to prevent it from rising.
00:51:03And it uses that to justify sanctions and tariffs and corporate blacklists and so on.
00:51:09And this, of course, is Xi Jinping's agenda.
00:51:11Part of his agenda here in the United States is to get the U.S. to drop some of that or at least to soften some of that, particularly the sales of semiconductors and chip making equipment and so on.
00:51:23But it's all neatly packaged in this Thucydides trap framing.
00:51:29Andy Brown, where do we get you at Semaphore and where do we get you on social media, sir?
00:51:34Please sign up for the Semaphore China newsletter once a week coming out tomorrow morning.
00:52:35My point, there's not a bigger globalist than the AI oligarchs, and particularly Jensen Wong, the biggest globalist ever, says it doesn't matter what country wins the AI race, it doesn't matter what company wins it, which is exactly counter to President Trump's philosophy.
00:52:52We're not the declining power, but we ought to stop acting like it.
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