Valuetainment - April 01, 2025


＂China Wants To DESTROY American Lives＂ – Trump's Panama Canal Deal In DANGER Amid China POWER PLAY


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C.K. Hutchins will not sign a deal to sell strategic Panama port next week, sources say. Meanwhile, Beijing's pressure looms large with pro-China outlet Ta Kung Pao slamming the deal as a betrayal of China and perfect cooperation with the U.S.

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00:00:00.000 So C.K. Hutchinson will not sign a deal to sell strategic Panama port next week, sources say.
00:00:06.820 Damn. 0.99
00:00:07.820 Listen, that was like the deal of the century. 1.00
00:00:13.600 C.K. Hutchinson will not sign a deal next week to sell its Panama Canal ports to BlackRock-led group,
00:00:19.440 with two sources saying definitively documents expected by April 2nd per March 4th announcement
00:00:24.880 won't be inked due to obvious reasons amid Beijing's antitrust review to protect fair competition, safeguard public interest.
00:00:32.340 Per China's market regulator on Friday, one source clarified that development does not mean the deal has been called off
00:00:38.480 and April 2nd is not a hard deadline as talks persist for the $19 billion plus sale of 43 ports across 23 countries.
00:00:48.360 Beijing's pressure looms large with pro-China outlet Ta Kung Pu,
00:00:52.420 Pao slamming the deal as betrayal of China and perfect cooperation with U.S.
00:00:57.300 contained and reposted by China's Hong Kong Macau affairs office while Trump cheered at saying he won it,
00:01:04.680 he wants to take control of the strategic waterway.
00:01:07.120 Tom, thoughts?
00:01:09.980 Yeah.
00:01:11.140 So if anyone wants to look at the Panama Canal progress of statements, negotiations, and everything else,
00:01:19.220 and Trump said this was really important to trade for the West, specifically the U.S.,
00:01:26.280 as ships come from the Pacific Ocean into the Gulf of America and then come into key ports,
00:01:31.280 he said that.
00:01:32.480 And he said China was putting too much influence in Panama.
00:01:36.240 They're building bridges over the top of it.
00:01:38.240 They're building infrastructure there.
00:01:39.440 They're going to control this.
00:01:40.460 This is not good.
00:01:41.280 And who raises and throws the flag on the field on the deal?
00:01:48.240 China.
00:01:49.140 China does.
00:01:50.300 So what do I think here?
00:01:51.840 Trump is right, ladies and gentlemen.
00:01:53.840 And we're seeing the response from China.
00:01:56.020 And this has got to be a diplomatic standoff.
00:01:59.520 The key guy here who has already been down there twice is Marco Rubio.
00:02:03.340 Our Secretary of State, on behalf of Trump, is going to be right in the middle of this.
00:02:08.280 Well, I think he is in the middle of it.
00:02:09.360 I don't think he's left to make it happen because this is really important strategically
00:02:16.100 and economically for the United States.
00:02:18.500 And it's no surprise that the pressure came from, what was it, the pro-China outlet Kung Pao chicken,
00:02:26.300 what is it, Ta Kung Pao, there it is, was slamming the deal as a betrayal of China
00:02:30.800 and perfect cooperation with U.S. containment.
00:02:34.500 Really?
00:02:35.280 That's what they want.
00:02:36.520 They want U.S. containment.
00:02:38.460 That's exactly what they want.
00:02:39.800 And so if you don't think this is important, you're not paying attention,
00:02:43.440 and this deal needs to get done one way or another.
00:02:47.300 Adam.
00:02:49.920 Vinny, go ahead.
00:02:51.160 No, I'm good.
00:02:52.480 I'm good.
00:02:53.280 Okay.
00:02:53.540 I just go into the next story.
00:02:55.780 I was still thinking about it.
00:02:56.820 It's so funny.
00:02:58.060 Adam's going to be like, well, listen, the Long Beach ports that they have this,
00:03:03.520 let me just say my thoughts will move.
00:03:04.960 This is not going to be a long story.
00:03:06.720 So to me, there are a lot of pieces, assets that you want to own.
00:03:11.660 Sometimes you don't reveal them publicly.
00:03:14.100 Sometimes you have to when you're the president.
00:03:16.120 This is one asset that's very, very important for the sake of national security,
00:03:21.580 for the sake of the next pandemic that could happen,
00:03:24.240 for the sake of the next war that's going to happen,
00:03:27.220 for the sake of this trade war gets really nasty,
00:03:30.200 and China wants to destroy American lives by going and putting a chokehold 0.88
00:03:35.240 in the Panama Canal with the two ports that they have and delaying everything.
00:03:38.840 And you want, whether you're leftist or rightist or right or center or libertarian,
00:03:45.960 could care less about politics, you want U.S. to have control of these two ports. 1.00
00:03:50.180 It's important for you to want these two ports to be yours.
00:03:54.200 I hope they're able to close this off.
00:03:58.200 Typically, if it was a negotiation to be private, there wouldn't be any announcements being made,
00:04:01.500 but this is public.
00:04:02.900 Everyone at this point knows about it, so we'll see what will take place here.
00:04:06.320 But I hope the deal does get done and we get these properties.
00:04:12.420 Okay.
00:04:12.700 Is he officially not signing the deal?
00:04:14.400 Is that what he said?
00:04:14.880 No, they're just saying it's not.
00:04:15.980 It says it doesn't mean it's not going to get done, but something tells me behind closed doors,
00:04:22.560 Xi and others are meddling in this deal not getting done.
00:04:25.560 Of course.
00:04:26.120 What kind of shady backdoor deals do you think are happening with this thing?
00:04:29.980 By the way, let me tell you what would probably happen.
00:04:32.220 Yeah.
00:04:32.740 Let me tell you what probably would happen.
00:04:34.060 You know who this helps?
00:04:34.880 Let's just kind of go logic.
00:04:36.720 The guy that's selling it, C.K. Hutchins, the guy that had a bad relationship with Xi
00:04:40.680 because back in the days in 1994, he prevented him from getting a real estate deal and he
00:04:45.760 doesn't forget that.
00:04:46.980 Okay.
00:04:47.140 The owner of C.K.
00:04:48.120 Hutchinson.
00:04:48.320 You're pulling him up, Rob?
00:04:49.240 Yeah.
00:04:50.380 C.K.
00:04:50.800 Hutchinson is a company, not a person, right?
00:04:52.380 No, but the guy who owns it, Rob.
00:04:53.740 Okay, got you.
00:04:53.940 The guy who is making the decisions is a guy who is rivals.
00:04:57.460 He is rivals with Xi.
00:04:59.980 They don't have a good relationship together.
00:05:01.660 Yeah.
00:05:02.100 But here's the part.
00:05:03.180 You know what he should do?
00:05:04.580 Use it as leverage and have a bidding war.
00:05:06.340 He can do that.
00:05:07.040 And he can raise that $19 billion to $25 billion if he wanted to get $6 more billion.
00:05:11.380 Isn't that in his right to do?
00:05:13.580 It is.
00:05:14.680 Unless if he already signed off on the amount he agreed to.
00:05:19.400 You see, China doesn't want to sell this thing if they paid him $300 billion.
00:05:23.500 If I'm China, pay me a trillion.
00:05:25.600 We're not selling it.
00:05:27.440 Trillion is nothing compared to the amount of control you can have with those two ports.
00:05:33.200 And it's 43 ports they're selling for the $18.9 billion.
00:05:37.960 No.
00:05:38.260 All the money in the world is not as important as the two ports that's in Panama right now.
00:05:44.420 Not at all.
00:05:44.840 If you were at the Vol Conference, we had these backpacks.
00:05:48.540 And the backpacks went off like it was gone within minutes.
00:05:53.380 That for the rest of the three days, everybody was asking, where are the value-tainment backpacks?
00:05:57.600 I want them.
00:05:58.520 This is genuine leather, red, limited edition, numbered on the side, out of 100.
00:06:04.680 Hybrid, okay? 0.99
00:06:05.780 And then it's the value-tainment logo on the front.
00:06:07.540 It says value-tainment right here.
00:06:09.120 Even this, what do you call it?
00:06:10.620 Zipper.
00:06:10.900 Zipper.
00:06:12.140 You know, here it's got the value-tainment logo on it.
00:06:15.180 Limited edition, red, value-tainment, backpack, genuine leather.
00:06:19.440 These will go in no time.
00:06:20.380 There's only 100 of these.
00:06:21.760 You won't see these again.
00:06:23.220 Limited on the side.
00:06:24.140 It's got it numbered.
00:06:24.940 Whatever number you're going to be getting, 2 out of 100, 58 out of 100, it'll be numbered.
00:06:28.780 And typically, when you see these, what ends up happening is some people buy them, and they post them on eBay, and they sell it for three times.
00:06:36.580 And you see that with hats.
00:06:37.820 Some of the hats that we have, the Future Looks Bright hat, are on eBay.
00:06:40.760 Some guys are selling for $3,500, $3,000, $500.
00:06:43.840 And some of them are able to sell them.
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00:06:59.440 These will go in no time.
00:07:01.840 Maybe a good gift for your husband.
00:07:04.380 Maybe a good gift for your son.
00:07:05.920 Maybe a good gift for somebody that would actually, maybe for your wife, somebody that would sport this.
00:07:10.260 But go to vtmerch.com to place your order.
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