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Trump left disappointed by China over Iran; Xi Jinping warns over Taiwan | Janta Ka Reporter
Janta Ka Reporter
May 14, 2026

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday failed to convince his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, to pressure Iran to allow the free passage of ships through the Persian Gulf. On the other hand, the Chinese president warned the US to not meddle with affairs in Taiwan. Rifat Jawaid argues that this a huge setback to Trump, who was hoping to get China on his side during this historic visit.



Transcript

Donald Trump and his bunch of thugs working as cabinet colleagues have just learned about their real worth in China.
Xiinping, the Chinese president, told the deranged occupant of the White House that he too didn't want Iran to have
nuclear weapons, but he didn't let Trump include any Chinese promise to help in ending the blockade of the state of H
foremost in the joint statement. China also told the Israeli lap dog to either improve relations with Beijing and not meddle with Taiwan or invite conflict.
In the UK, Zionist Prime Minister Kama will now have a proper leadership challenge as an even bigger Zionist West
treating today resigned from his post as the health secretary. Elsewhere in Gaza, Palestinians are paying a heavy price
for the recklessness of Hamas leadership. Israeli terrorists today slaughtered four more Palestinians in
Gaza. The same bunch of barbarians also bombed an ambulance in Lebanon. This would be the broad focus of my video
tonight. Also in this video, a Fox News presenter complains about receiving a parking ticket for a traffic violation
from the Chinese authorities, but gets exposed by Chinese social media users for hiding the truth. So, please stay tuned.
Israeli slave Trump today met his Chinese counterpart Xiinping for a historic summit. Both leaders were
meeting after a gap of nine years and chances are that Trump would visit China once again this year to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Council meeting.
But the dominating theme of today's bilateral talks between she and his American guest was the joint statement
issued by both the countries. While both leaders agreed that Iran should not have nuclear weapons in the joint statement,
Trump was left disappointed that Xiinping did not formalize his promise for help in opening the State of Hormos.
Watch Trump's favorite TV channel, Fox News, that highlighted this aspect prominently.
Also, both countries agree that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon. And uh after reading through this readout,
there was really nothing in there that said that China was going to help pressure Iran in any way to ending the conflict. We were wondering if that was going to come up.
At home, this Israeli clown likes to brag about his fake superpower. While in China, he was seen behaving like a tamed
animal as he begged his Chinese host to help the US military against Iran. Just watch this video clip of Trump's
interview with Fox News. He flew all the way to China to give an interview to Fox News to personally beg Xiinping to use
his connection with Iran to end the blockade of the state of Hormuz.
That's what Trump means when he says that he has turned America into the hottest country in the world. This was
the true example. President Xi would like to see a deal made. He would he would like to see a deal made.
And oh, he did offer. He said, "If I can be of any help at all, I would like to be of help." Because he did say that.
Yeah, he did say that. And look, you anybody that buys that much oil is obviously got some kind of a relationship with him. But he said, "I
would love to be of help. If I could be of any help whatsoever, he'd like to see the hormones straight open." He said, "If I could be of any help whatsoever, I
would like to help." But in the same interview he said that Iran as a country had been decimated and therefore the US
had won the war. But he's begging to everyone to convince Iran to end the blockade of the state of foremost.
That's because this single decision by Iran is wreaking havoc for the US economy.
4 minutesThe Chinese president was a gracious host and did everything to make his guest feel comfortable and happy during
the visit. But the body language and tone of Trump and his cabinet colleagues showed just how frightened they looked
in front of the Chinese. Trump's famous blabbering was missing and his fellow thugs like Rubio and Hex was seen
trembling as they were being introduced to the Chinese president.
Despite his hospitality, Xiinping also issued a stark warning to his guest in his own Chinese way. He reminded Trump
to not meddle with the affairs in Taiwan, failing which the bilateral ties could worsen significantly. He used the
tussy disease trap analogy to warn Trump. The whole world is watching our meeting.
Currently, transformation not seen in a century is accelerating across the globe and the international situation is fluid
and turbulent. The world has come to a new crossroads. Can China and the United States overcome the fusidities trap?
and create a new paradigm of major country relations.
Can we meet global challenges together and provide more stability for the world?
American journalist Rick Sanchez explains what Tussy trap actually means.
China is saying, "Look, from now on, sanctions, you could sanction whatever the hell you want. We're not going to pay attention to them. And we're going to continue our terrorists with you,
including the 77% on American beef, 22% on soybeans, which has American farmers
actually really pissed off. So, the Chinese are saying, "Yeah, if you come to us and you ask nicely, we'll consider lowering those tariffs." Oh my god, how
the worm has turned. And then, of course, there's the Thusidities Thusidities
trap. I didn't even know what this was, but you need to know about it because everybody's talking about it and Mr.
She's the one who brought it up. So, Thusidities was a Greek warrior turned philosopher who essentially
the the the the theory that is used when describing US China relations or US Sino relations is about this Thusidities
trap. And the thusidities trap is essentially that when one power gets really really large, it is able to
overtake the other power and then it's difficult to avoid war between those two opposing forces. And that's the fear
that's why Mr. She has just said in his opening remarks, no less he expressing hope that the US and China will be able
to avoid whether the two countries can transcend the Thusidities trap and forge a new model for relations between these
two powers. So he said this referring to the Thusidities trap that in other words, let's avoid the expectation of
war between us simply because we've grown big and you have always been big.
Now the two of us are big. That doesn't necessarily mean we have to clash. But then she went even further and this is where it gets interesting. She it's
being called a threat. You you tell me if you think this is a threat. He said the Taiwan question is the most important issue in China US relations.
Then he says if it is handled properly, looking at my notes, if it is handled properly, this bilateral relationship will enjoy overall stability. Otherwise,
8 minutesand here's where he gets for for for Chinese Palabber, this is strong. He
says the two countries will have clashes and even conflicts, putting this entire relationship in
jeopardy. So, he's warning Trump. He's saying, "If you with us when it comes to Taiwan, this can get really serious."
Pardon me for cursing, but I mean sometimes it's just the best way of expressing what the man is actually saying. And and that's what he's saying to Trump.
While the American right-wing media would tell you everything was fine, Xiinping's warning on Taiwan has left
Trump shocked. He wasn't expecting his Chinese host to be this brutal during this visit. This would give you an idea
about how much China is going to help the US on the state of Hormos or other issues related to Iran as being claimed by Trump and his pet media outlets.
The whole world knows that Iran is giving Trump sleepless nights. But the US Central Command Chief Admiral Cooper
today lied while appearing before the Senate. He said his military had almost ended Iran's missile program. This
despite the fact that even American media outlets are now reporting that most of Iranian missile and drone stockpile is absolutely intact.
Watch this grilling by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand on bombing of schools in Iran.
The second concern I have, Admiral Cooper, is uh how we've prosecuted this war to date. Uh we have data and
information publicly available in publications like the New York Times that 22 schools have been hit, hospitals, dozens of hospitals have been
hit. Uh we have regulations. We have the law of war. We have uh human rights obligations. We have our own um
targeting requirements to avoid civilian harm and death. Have you been implementing all the laws that are required under current law to minimize civilian death?
Senator, we have executed uh every operation consistent with the law of armed conflict. The subject of civilian casualties is a particular passion of
mine. We pay attention to it. We follow all the procedures and have gone above and beyond to in my case personally warn the Iranian people of several instances
uh during conflict where they were being potentially warned. How did we then bomb 22 schools?
There is no indication that we have that that that has been corroborated. How many schools have we bombed?
There is one active civilian casualty investigation from the 13,629 munitions.
So, how do you explain the publicly available information that 22 schools have been hit and multiple hospitals?
There's no way that we can corroborate that. No indication of that whatsoever.
Senator, there's no way you can corroborate or no indication of it. Which one? No indication.
Well, the indication is what's publicly available. There is indication. Have you investigated those claims? We have not.
Why have you not? If this is a passion of yours, if you believe that civilian casualties are not consistent with the
law of war and not consistent with human rights obligations that our military regularly follows, with great pride and great diligence, why have you not
investigated those allegations when they're publicly being made on the cover of the New York Times?
I'll be happy to take a look at the in each instance to do that.
I would like a report from you, from your team about whether there have been
attacks that have resulted in the destruction of schools and hospitals.
Even Barack Obama, who I'm not a big fan of anyway, has now exposed Trump's lies on Iran.
We pulled it off without firing a missile. We got 97% of their enriched uranium out. Uh they were able to
maintain a modest civilian nuclear program for energy. And so you think it was working?
Well, it's not only did I think it was working, uh even Israeli intelligence thought it was working. Uh even our
intelligence services thought it was working. So there's no dispute that it
worked. Um, and we didn't uh we didn't have to kill a whole bunch of people or shut down the straight of Hormuz. Now,
well, there was some dispute that it didn't work. Our our our No, our present president believed that it didn't work, which is why he pulled out of it.
It's not clear that he didn't believe that it didn't work. He just said it didn't work. Worst worst deal of all time.
Yeah, because I did it, which which is fine. That seems to be a pattern. But but there is no serious uh independent
folks who would say that it didn't work with respect to the nuclear program.
Now, if your agenda was to bring about regime change in Iran, well, that wasn't the goal of the agreement.
If your goal was to dismantle the Iranian military so that it couldn't cause any other problems in the region,
then it didn't do that. But that wasn't the goal. Iranian foreign minister sayy dab basaraki was in India today attending the bricks country's foreign
minister's meeting state of pormos is now suffering first and most from the US aggression and the
blockade that they have imposed on it as far as we are concerned uh the state of foremost is open for uh for all uh you
know commercial vessels uh but they need to to cooperate with our
uh navy forces. So we have not made any obstacles. It is Americans who have made blockade and I hope that uh that could
be ended by uh the removal of this illegal blockade imposed by Americans. Earlier addressing
his counterparts from BRICS countries at the meeting in India, Arashi used the opportunity to highlight the atrocities
committed by the US and Israeli terrorist during the illegal war. He said Iran was the victim of illegal war
mongering by the Americans and Israeli terrorists. Rahman, your excellency Dr. Jashankar, honorable
minister of external affairs of India, honorable minister, ministers of foreign affairs of the bricks, member states,
distinguished representatives, esteemed colleagues, as you have all witnessed, my country has within the span of less than a year
twice been subjected to brutal and and unlawful aggression by the United States and Israel. The attacks on my people
have been justified with false claims that run counter to the informed assessments of the International Atomic
Energy Agency and even America's own intelligence community. The truth is that Iran, like many other independent
nations, is the victim of illegal expansionism and wararmongering.
These are ugly things which have no place in today's world. Those who pursue reckless adventures may believe it furthers their geopolitical interests.
But as consumers and governments around the world now sense and understand, regional instability is a lose-lose
proposition for all sides, including the aggressors.
In the face of horrific violence, the Iranian people have firmly and proudly stood up for themselves.
Did we retreat from our ideal of independence? Did we surrender to the will and whims of imperial power? The
answer is clear. We did not and never will.
I come from an ancient land whose leaders have stood courageously by their people in the pursuit of justice, independence, and the defense of
sovereignty and territorial integrity, sacrificing their lives for for historic and national ideals. I speak for an Iran
whose armed forces, medical personnel, school teachers, and law enforcement officers never once placed their own
safety above saving the lives of those they are duty bound to protect and served with honor on the front line of humanity.
While we have been focusing on Iran, Israeli terrorists have quietly but slowly been occupying more and more land of Gaza by carrying out their holocaust.
Israelis have now occupied 64% of Gaza by moving the so-called yellow line constantly. Trump's board of peace envoy
has now warned that Israeli terrorists could permanently occupy most part of Gaza. He blames Hamas for this since the group has refused to disarm itself.
Meanwhile, people in Gaza are being forced to go through living hell as health conditions rapidly deteriorate.
Meanwhile, Israeli terrorists have now murdered four more people in Gaza today.
This is what I said on the very first day Trump had proposed the ceasefire. I had warned that Hamas would be making a
grave mistake by agreeing to the terms of the ceasefire. That's precisely what has happened. Now this group has no
bargaining chip and is simply unable to do anything even in the face of the continuing genocide.
United Nations deputy spokesperson Farhan Hak has meanwhile said that families sheltering in Raza are
reporting skin infections and other illnesses caused by rodents and insects entering tents and contaminating their
food supplies in the UK. Kammer faced another significant challenge to his leadership today as West treating resigned from his
18 minutescabinet as the health secretary. He now plans to challenge Star's leadership.
You're watching Sky News today. It is . We come back this hour with breaking news. Uh the health secretary Wes Streeting has handed in his letter of resignation to the prime minister.
That letter coming into us here at Sky News. The health secretary within the last s putting it out on social
media. Our political editor Beth Rigby is here. Um the letter of resignation we've been anticipating. Um for the last really Beth has just landed.
Yeah. News uh just as we came on air uh Wes Streetin has resigned as the health
secretary. He has put out at 1:00 a letter on his ex account a two-page
letter outlining that he is standing down from government. He has said in this letter, "Having lost confidence in
your leadership, I have concluded it would be dishonorable and unprincipled to remain imposed." He says, "Where we
need vision, we have a vacuum." For those who care about their role in supporting the genocide in Gaza, this
offers a unique opportunity to enjoy the fight between two disgraceds.
Neither of them stands for traditional Labor Party values. In Lebanon, Israeli terrorists bombed an ambulance. This is
the true evil nature of the Israeli society. This is also Gaza 2.0 being
played out in Lebanon. I will now leave you with this clip of a Fox News broadcast by presenter Brett Byer. In
the first part of this video, he's seen complaining about the ticket that his driver received for parking his car just
for a few seconds on the roadside. But Chinese social media users were quick to expose his lies, releasing the video of
bread buyer filming right in the middle of a busy road. This would be a traffic violation even in his own country. I
wonder what made him think that the Chinese would ignore this violation just because he was an American.
Big brother is watching.
There are literally cameras everywhere in Beijing. We are outside the Haden station and I can count at least 20 on
this corner. In fact, in Beijing, they've added 1,500 cameras just this year alone. They see everything. Uh
there's nobody jaywalking here because they could get a ticket right away. In fact, our driver parked illegally for 2
minutes and he got a message on his phone that he got a ticket for about 40 bucks US because they saw it on the
camera. Now, there are real questions what the CCP's goal is about citizen tracking and social scoring.
That's it from me. Thank you very much for your support of this platform and our journalism. If you haven't subscribed to my channel, please do so
because that's one of the many ways you can support independent journalism. God bless you all.

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Rubio Angers Xi With Taiwan Claim Hours After Beijing's Open Threat To USA- Trump's Diplomacy Flops?
Hindustan Times
May 14, 2026

Donald Trump’s carefully choreographed Beijing trip is being overshadowed by one issue he clearly doesn’t want to talk about: Taiwan. As Trump avoids any public mention of the island, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has stepped into the spotlight with a much tougher, more defiant tone on America’s Taiwan policy. Here's why Rubio's decision to “dare” Xi Jinping on Taiwan risks upsetting the delicate manoeuvres around this high‑stakes visit.



Transcript

Did you talk about Taiwan? Great place. Great. Incredible. China is beautiful.
US policy on the issue of Taiwan is unchanged as of today and as of the meeting that we had here today. It was raised. They always raise it on their
side. We think it would be a terrible mistake to force that through force or anything of that nature. It would there would be repercussions for that globally, not just from the United States.
As Donald Trump goes out of his way to avoid directly talking about Taiwan in public, his top diplomat instead strikes a defiant tone on the issue.
Marco Rubio is effectively daring Xi Jinping on Taiwan with his comments, potentially risking the careful diplomatic maneuvers Trump is trying to stage in Beijing.
Just hours after Beijing issued a stark threat to Trump over Taiwan, Rubio's firm remarks could anger Xi and be read as a direct challenge to China's warning.
The official White House readout on the Beijing summit skips any mention of Taiwan completely, fueling speculation over what was really said behind closed
doors and what Washington wants to keep quiet.
If Taiwan is mishandled, she pointedly reminds Trump of the consequences, warning that backing the island nation too strongly could drag the two powers toward dangerous confrontation.
Hours after Xi Jinping's unusually open threat over Taiwan, the US Secretary of State delivered a statement on the island, trying to project firmness even as the president stayed cautious.
Marco Rubio outlined America's Taiwan policy right after Trump concluded his first day of talks with China, effectively filling the silence left by
the president on this sensitive question.
He made these remarks in an on camera interview with NBC News in Beijing on May 14th, ensuring his message reached audiences in the United States, China,
and Taiwan at the same time. President Xi stressed to President Trump that the Taiwan question is the most important
issue in China US relations. Talk to me about that moment when that Well, they certainly feel that way and and they always raise that issue and we understand they raise that issue. From
our perspective, any forced change in the status quo and the situation that's there now would be bad for both countries. One of the things the Chinese emphasized, which we agree, is strategic
stability in our relationship, a constructive relationship, but also one that establishes strategic stability so that we don't have misunderstandings
that could lead to broader conflict. And so we always reiterate the point. We hear them when they say this. We always respond by saying anything that would
compel or force a change in what we have now would be problematic. and that we would certainly our policies on that have not changed. It's been pretty
consistent across multiple presidential administrations and remains consistent.
Now, US policy on the issue of Taiwan is unchanged as of today and as of the meeting that we had here today. It was raised. They always raise it on their
side. We always make clear our position and we move on to the other topics. We know where they stand and I think they know where we stand.
Do you think China wants to invade Taiwan? Well, I think China's preference is probably to have Taiwan willingly, voluntarily join them. In in a perfect
world, what they would want is some vote or a referendum in Taiwan that agrees to fold in. I think that's what they would prefer. Um, ultimately, it's featured
3 minutesprominently in President G's uh mandate. In the time he's been in office, he's made clear that what they call reunification, that's what they
call it, is something that has to happen at some point. We think it would be a terrible mistake to force that through force or anything of that nature. It would there would be repercussions for
that globally, not just from the United States. The the the pace of growth in the Chinese military over the last 10 years has no precedent. None. I mean,
just what they've done with their navy alone over the they put billions and billions and billions of dollars in their system. So, it's you know, you look at it, it's hard to ignore how fast
and how big. So, I don't think it's just limited to Taiwan. I think they have ambitions to ultimately be able to project power globally the way the US
does now. Rubio added that the issue of future US arm sales to Taiwan did not feature prominently in the talks, suggesting the topic was handled
cautiously, if at all, during the Beijing meetings.
Did President Xi request to President Trump not to sell weapons to Taiwan?
Well, that topic uh may have been has been discussed in the past. It did not feature primarily in today's discussion.
We know what their position on that is already. Remember, Congress plays a role in that in that process as well. Ahead of the trip, Trump himself had said he
would discuss US arm sales to Taiwan with Xi Jinping, raising expectations that this contentious issue would be on the summit agenda. That pledge ran up
against long-standing US policy, which generally prohibits detailed Washington Beijing negotiations on arm sales to Taiwan in order to preserve American flexibility.
At the same time, Washington has been pressuring Taipei to significantly increase its own defense budget, insisting that Taiwan must spend more on
its self-defense against Chinese pressure.
The Taiwan issue emerged as a major point in talks that were otherwise dominated by the conflict involving Iran and the wider Middle East crisis.
During their closed door discussions, she warned Trump that US support for Taiwan, if pushed too far, could lead to clashes and conflicts between Washington and Beijing.
5 minutesHe reportedly went further, saying that if the Taiwan issue was mishandled, the United States and China could come into conflict, leaving little doubt about where China's red lines lie.
Subsequently, the official White House readout on the summit appeared to skip any mention of Taiwan, adding to the sense that the topic was too sensitive to spell out publicly.
Trump also seemed to dodge a question on Taiwan during his choreographed visit to the Temple of Heaven with Xi, reinforcing the impression that he did not want to publicly provoke Beijing on camera.
Taiwan, great place. Great. Incredible. China is beautiful. At the same time, Taiwan declared that it would maintain close
ties with the United States following Xi's threat, signaling that Taipei has no intention of backing away from its key security partner.
Xi Jinping, for his part, said that US China ties were the most important in the world and insisted we must never mess it up, underlining the paradox of a
relationship that is vital yet constantly strained over Taiwan.
May goch.
Fore! Foreign! Foreign!
This is a historic visit. This year marks the start of China's 15th five-year plan for economic and social
development. The over 1.4 4 billion people of China drawing on the rich heritage of our over 5,000 years
civilization are advancing Chinese modernization on all fronts through high quality development.
This year is also the 250th anniversary of American independence.
The over 300 million American people are reinvigorating the spirit of patriotism, innovation, and enterprise. and ushering
in a new journey for the development of the United States. The people of China and the United States are both great
peoples. Achieving the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and making America great again can go hand
in hand. We can help each other succeed and advance the well-being of the whole world.
Fore.
So, for
55 years ago, President Richard Nixon sent Dr. Henry Kissinger to visit China
and pingpong diplomacy was carried out between our two countries. Through efforts of the two governments and peoples, the door that had remained
frozen for over 20 years was opened, marking a milestone in contemporary international relations.
From then on, China and the United States have written many chapters of friendship through mutual openness and cooperation.
Under the new situation, President Trump and I fully aware of the expectations of our two nations and the international
community have had multiple meetings and phone calls and kept China US relations generally stable.
10 minutesforation.
Today, President Trump and I had in-depth exchanges on China US relations and international and regional dynamics.
We both believe that the China US relationship is the most important bilateral relationship in the world. We must make it work and never mess it up.
Both China and the United States stand to gain from cooperation and lose from confrontation.
Our two countries should be partners rather than rivals.
President Trump and I also agreed to build a constructive China US relationship of strategic stability to
promote the steady, sound and sustainable development of China US relations and bring more peace,
prosperity and progress to the world.
foreign
Honorable President Donald J. Trump, ladies and gentlemen, friends, looking back at the course of China US
relations, whether or not we could have mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, and wing-wing cooperation is the key to
whether the relationship can advance steadily. The world today is changing and turbulent. China US relations
concern the well-being of the over 1.7 billion people of both countries and affect the interests of the over 8
billion people of the world. Both sides should rise up to this historic responsibility and steer the giant ship
of China US relations forward steadily and in the right direction.
Say what?
Now, please join me in a toast to the development and prosperity of China and the United States and the well-being of
our people, to the bright future of China US relations and the friendship between the two peoples and to the
health of President Trump and all the friends present. Cheers.

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Even Israel Couldn't Save You': Clashes At BRICS Summit; Iran Minister Blasts UAE Diplomat | WATCH
Times Of India
May 14, 2026 #mbz #araghchi #TOIVideos

Tensions erupted at the BRICS foreign ministers’ meeting in New Delhi when Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, accused the UAE of direct involvement in military operations against Iran amid the ongoing conflict. Araghchi said the UAE had been “directly involved in the aggression” and failed to condemn initial attacks by the US-Israeli coalition, framing Abu Dhabi as having provided territory or support for actions against Tehran.



Transcript

Chapter 1: Iran Accuses UAE at BRICS Meet: New Delhi Tension
There is ultimately a limit to everything. After all, the United Arab Emirates uh to chose to stand firmly alongside the United States and Israel throughout the duration of this war.
What began as a routine bricks foreign minister's meeting in New Delhi took a tense turn after Iran publicly accused
the UAE of siding with US and Israel during the recent conflict. [music] Iran's foreign minister Abbas Arajichi
told delegates that the United Arab Emirates had been directly involved in the aggression against Iran. He said he avoided naming the country in his formal
bricks remarks for the sake of unity but spoke out after comments from the Emirati side.
It was uh quite surprising for everyone in the meeting that the Emirati delegation had no issues except for the
matter of the war and the responses Iran has given to the US uh on their soil. It is truly a regrettable uh situation and
I found it necessary to explain it in great detail during the meeting for all the BRICS member countries emphasizing that even if we choose not to voice it openly there is ultimately a limit to
Chapter 2: Iran Warns UAE: US-Israel Cannot Ensure Security
everything after all. The United Arab Emirates uh chose to stand firmly alongside the United States and Israel throughout the duration of this war. Uh
I mentioned that that we did not want to get into these issues for the sake of preserving the unity and cohesion of bricks. However, since the UAE
representative raised these matters, we are compelled to state the truth for the international community. And ultimately, I also took the time to advise the
representative of the United Arab Emirates that Israel, the Zionist regime, and the United States of America are simply unable to provide them with
any lasting security. A day earlier, UAE had rejected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's claim [music] that
he visited the UAE during the war. An episode Arji linked to attempts to so division. Iran's position hardened when
Deputy Foreign Minister Kazm Garib issued a sharp rebuttal to what he called baseless allegations from the UAE
representative. Gibbati argued that facilitating or enabling attacks constitutes aggression under international law, [music]
Chapter 3: Iran Submits UAE Allegations to UN Security Council
citing a 1974 UN General Assembly resolution. He said Iran had warned regional states in advance that any
assistance to attackers could invite reciprocal strikes on facilities used in such operations.
Iran maintains it acted in self-defense after US and Israel strikes began on February 28, saying its response targeted installations linked to those
operations. [music] Iranian officials claimed they have submitted extensive documentation to the UN Security Council, including diplomatic notes and
records they say trace aircraft movements from Emirati territory. The UAE has not publicly addressed these [music] specific allegations. Iranian
media suggested the episode could complicate efforts by bricks foreign [music] ministers to agree on a joint communique given visible differences between Iran and UAE. [clears throat]
Arajichi added that regional security cannot be imported calling for peaceful coexistence with neighbors [music] while warning that Iran's patience though real is not limitless.
Chapter 4: UAE Denies Netanyahu Secret Visit During Iran War
The United Arab Emirates moved swiftly to shut down a growing political firestorm after Israel claimed that
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had secretly visited the country during the war with Iran.
According to statements attributed to the Israeli prime minister's office, Netanyahu allegedly traveled to the UAE and held talks with UAE President
Muhammad bin Zed al- Nayan at the height of soaring regional tensions. But Abu Dhabi wasted no [music] time pushing
back. In a sharp and unusually direct response, the UAE Foreign Ministry firmly rejected the claims, denying that
the country had hosted Netanyahu or received any Israeli military delegation. The denial comes at a highly sensitive moment for the Gulf region as
fears of a wider Middle East conflict continue to intensify amid the Iran Issrael confrontation. The reports and
the UAE's rapid rebuttal have sparked intense speculation over secret diplomacy, regional [music] alliances, and behind-the-scenes coordination
Chapter 5: Abraham Accords: UAE-Israel Ties Open, Not Secret
during the conflict. The public rejection also appears aimed at distancing the UAE from any perception of involvement in Israeli military or
political operations linked to the [music] war with Iran, an issue that carries enormous regional and diplomatic consequences. With accusations, denials,
and warnings now unfolding in rapid succession, the episode has added another
[music]
layer of intrigue and tension to an already explosive geopolitical landscape.
In a strongly worded statement, the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs said [music] reports circulating about an alleged
visit by Netanyahu or the arrival of an Israeli military delegation were false.
The ministry [music] said the UAE's ties with Israel are conducted openly under the framework of the Abraham Accords and are not based on non-transparent or
5 minutesunofficial arrangements. The ministry added that any claims regarding unannounced visits or undisclosed [music] arrangements are entirely
Chapter 6: Netanyahu Al Ain Meet: Iran Warns Gulf States
unfounded unless officially announced by the relevant authorities in the UAE. It also urged media organizations to
exercise accuracy and professionalism and avoid [music] spreading unverified information or misleading political narratives. The UAE's denial came hours
after Netanyahu's office announced that the Israeli premere had secretly visited the UAE during the military confrontation with Iran and held talks
with UAE President Muhammad bin Zed on the highen. According to Israeli Channel 12, the meeting reportedly took place on
March 26th in the Emirati city of Alahin
[music]
near the Omani border and roughly 250 km from Iran.
Iran has long accused Gulf states, particularly the UAE, of allowing Israel to expand its military and intelligence presence in the region since the signing of the Abraham Accords.
Tran has repeatedly criticized the normalization and warned neighboring countries against security cooperation with Israel.
Chapter 7: UAE-Israel Ties Deepen Amid Iran Missile Threats
Although the UAE denied reports of [music] Netanyahu's visit, relations between Abu Dhabi and Tel Aviv have visibly deepened in recent [music]
years. Israeli leaders have made several public visits to the Gulf States since ties were established in 2020. While
economic, diplomatic, and security cooperation has steadily expanded despite regional tensions, the UAE has also faced security concerns [music]
during the conflict. Iranian missile and drone attacks reportedly targeted areas [music] linked to Gulf infrastructure during the war, prompting Gulf states to
reassure investors and international businesses that the region remained stable and secure.
News [music] never stops. The world keeps turning and every turn tells a story. Wars, elections, geopolitics,
Chapter 8: Times of India Videos: Decoding Global Geopolitics
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Embassy of China in Oman سفارة الصين في سلطنة عمان
@ChinaEmbOman

When asked whether Iran was discussed during the meeting between the Chinese and U.S. presidents during President Trump’s visit to China, the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson responded: There is no point in continuing this conflict which should not have happened in the first place.

Q: It is reported that during President Trump’s visit to China, the two presidents exchanged views on major international and regional issues, including the situation in the Middle East. Did the two sides talk about Iran? What is China’s view on the current Iran situation?

A: China’s position on the Iran situation is very clear. The conflict has inflicted severe losses on the people in Iran and other regional countries. With the spillover still expanding, the conflict has put a heavy strain on global economic growth, supply chains, international trade order and the stability of global energy supply, which hurts the common interests of the international community. There is no point in continuing this conflict which should not have happened in the first place. To find an early way to resolve the situation is in the interest of not only the U.S. and Iran, but also regional countries and the rest of the world.

The recent U.S.-Iran ceasefire and effort to explore resolving issues through negotiation is welcomed by regional countries and the international community. China always believes that dialogue and negotiation is the right way forward, and the use of force is a dead end. Now that the door of dialogue has been opened, it should not be shut again. It is important to steady the momentum in easing the situation, keep to the direction of political settlement, engage in dialogue and consultation, and reach a settlement on the Iranian nuclear issue and other issues that accommodates the concerns of all parties. It is important to reopen the shipping lanes as soon as possible to respond to the call of the international community and jointly keep the global supply chains stable and unimpeded. It is important to reach a comprehensive and lasting ceasefire as soon as possible, enable peace and stability to return to the Middle East and Gulf region at an early date, and lay the foundation for building a sustainable security architecture for the region.

Since the conflict began, China has been working for an end to the conflict and peace. President Xi Jinping put forward the four propositions on safeguarding and promoting peace and stability in the Middle East. China and Pakistan issued the five-point initiative for restoring peace and stability in the Gulf and Middle East region. China will continue to act in line with President Xi Jinping’s four propositions, and work with the international community to provide stronger support for peace talks and play a constructive role in achieving lasting peace in the Middle East.

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Sulaiman Ahmed
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WOW!!!
TRUMP SNEAKILY OPENS & READS PRESIDENT XI PRIVATE NOTES WHEN HE SETPS [STEPS] AWAY

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Trump lashes out at BBC after he is asked about the US strike on the school in Minab.
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BREAKING: Iran has seized the Honduras-flagged vessel HUI CHUAN, a Chinese-operated "floating armory," 38 nautical miles northeast of Fujairah, UAE, and is towing it toward Iranian territorial waters.

What is the HUI CHUAN?

The vessel is described as a "floating armory"—a weapons storage ship used by private military contractors and maritime security firms to arm commercial vessels transiting pirate-prone waters. These ships store rifles, ammunition, and defensive equipment that security teams pick up and drop off as needed.

The HUI CHUAN, flying a false Honduras flag, was operated by Chinese private military contractors. It had been anchored in the Gulf of Oman for the past month, positioned to supply weapons to ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz to defend against Somali, Houthi, and Iranian threats.

The timing: Iran seized this vessel during Trump's summit with Xi Jinping in Beijing, where the two leaders discussed the Strait of Hormuz crisis. Trump said Xi agreed that "the Strait of Hormuz must remain open to support the free flow of energy."

What this likely means: Iran is clearing the maritime security infrastructure that enables commercial shipping to bypass its control. The HUI CHUAN was arming vessels so they could transit the Strait without Iranian approval. Iran just confiscated the weapons depot.

This doesn't appear to be a message to China, it's more likely that Iran is taking the weapons to inspect them, possibly redistribute them to allied forces, or eliminate a private security operation it views as a Western proxy in its waters.

This is at least the third vessel Iran has seized since February.


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See the difference between how China welcomed Trump… and Iran!
The Chinese President did not take even a single step toward Trump.
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Crowds poured into the streets across Iran as pink and blue Shahed kamikaze drones mounted on vehicles were paraded through major cities. Supporters of the Islamic Republic waved flags, chanted slogans, and celebrated alongside military displays, turning the event into a massive public show of unity and defiance. The unusual drone parade quickly drew attention online, with videos spreading across social media.
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أخبار إيران باللغة العربية | عاجل
@Mojtabkhamenei
Translated from Arabic
Breaking News:

Israeli sources have confirmed...

Sources report that Tel Aviv, Israel's capital, was subjected to a massive rocket attack, resulting in tremendous destruction and severe damage throughout the city.

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Dr.Sam Youssef Ph.D.,Ph.D.,DPT.
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The sofa must be custom-made. The sofa Xi Jinping sat on was clearly higher than Trump's sofa, while Trump is 10 cm taller than Xi Jinping. The CCP spares no effort in scheming over these details!!
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Xi’s long handshake with Stephen Miller? Pure Chinese subtlety >>>
A quiet show of force.

A diplomatic “fuck you.”

In the Beijing receiving line, President Xi deliberately paused longest with Trump’s attack-dog Deputy Chief of Staff. Eye contact locked. Smile gone.

Grip held firm. While Trump watched, Xi was sending a message the old-school Chinese way: I know exactly who you are.

And Miller’s past comments on social media > makes it crystal clear why:

• “The days of China pillaging America are over.”
(Miller’s chest-thumping classic)

• “Saving the West from complete economic domination by another power [China].”
(His Fox News grandstanding)

• Accusing China of “decades of intellectual property theft, industrial espionage, currency manipulation, targeted dumping” >>> all to justify US tariffs, visa bans, and economic bullying.

• Bragging that restrictions will “deliver a significant setback to China’s long term industrial plans.”

Xi wasn’t impressed.

He was staring down the architect of America’s confrontational playbook… and letting him feel the weight. No shouting.

No drama. Just calculated, ice-cold poise >> the Chinese way of saying: your threats don’t scare us.

A subtle power move. America brings the bark. China brings the patience.


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hotel in Japan made Israeli tourist sign a declaration pledging not to rape or murder before allowing him to stay there
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UPDATE: THE IRGC ANNOUNCES IRAN IS PREPARING TO TEST A MASSIVE LONG-RANGE MISSILE CAPABLE OF REACHING NEARLY 4,000 KM.

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The Times they are a changing - The Grayzone live
The Grayzone
May 15, 2026

Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss the furor over a New York Times report finally exposing legacy media readers to the systematic Israeli practice of sexual violence against Palestinian detainees. They then fact check a fabrication-filled new Israeli report designed to deflect from the PR crisis, which has prompted Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu to threaten a lawsuit against the Times.

They also cover the latest from Lebanon, the prospect of renewed attacks on Iran, Trump's summit with Xi, and the looming political crisis in Israel.

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Israel’s organ theft scandal exposes a culture of desecration. Tel Aviv’s pageant of kidney-donor virtue cannot wash away the Palestinian bodies, forensic warnings, and trafficking scandals that still demand a reckoning.
By Robert Inlakesh
The Cradle
MAY 13, 2026
https://thecradle.co/articles/israels-o ... esecration

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On 25 January, Israeli President Isaac Herzog stood before a crowd celebrating what Tel Aviv claimed was a world record in kidney donations. The event, promoted after a lobbying push to Guinness World Records, was meant to project generosity, discipline, and moral purpose.

But Guinness listed only the gathering itself as a record, not the kidney donations that Tel Aviv had turned into a public relations show.

The bodies behind the numbers

In Gaza, where Israel has been returning Palestinian bodies in bags, sometimes decomposed, mutilated, or showing signs of surgical interference, the celebration landed differently. For Palestinian health officials, the question was not how Israel had produced so many donors, but whether all of those bodies had consented.

Dimming Israel’s “propaganda facade” was none other than Dr Munir al-Bursh, director general of the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza. He said Israel’s “record numbers” raised serious questions about the sources of the kidneys and other organs now being celebrated. He pointed to the stark contradiction of an occupation state that has held Palestinian bodies for years in the “cemeteries of numbers” and refrigerators while presenting itself to the world as a humanitarian model in organ donation.

Bursh cited documented cases of bodies returned to families missing organs, especially kidneys, without medical reports, autopsy files, or any legal path to accountability. He demanded an independent international investigation into whether Israel’s claimed achievement had been built on the theft of Palestinian organs.

Just over a week later, Israel returned the scattered remains of some 54 Palestinians to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. Forensic teams quickly got to work in an attempt to identify the bodies and give closure to their families, but noted that many of the corpses had clear signs of torture and the surgical organ removal.

This was not the first such warning since Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. Ten days into Israel’s genocide in Gaza, allegations of organ theft had already surfaced. By late November 2023, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor called for an investigation into the theft of Palestinian organs, after “medical professionals found evidence of organ theft, including missing cochleas and corneas as well as other vital organs like livers, kidneys, and hearts.”

Israel and its defenders moved to blunt the spread of these allegations by invoking “blood libel” and antisemitism. Because the evidence came from Palestinians, calls for international scrutiny have largely fallen on deaf ears.

A scandal Israel never buried

This is precisely what happened in the early 1990s, when Palestinian medical professionals and the families of the dead had accused Israel of illicit organ harvesting during the First Intifada. In fact, back in 1992, then-Israeli health minister Ehud Olmert had even organized a public organ donation campaign. As with today, presenting an image of humanitarianism.

In 1999, US anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes began exposing what had long been ignored. As co-founder of Organs Watch, an organization created to monitor organ trafficking and its human cost, she later brought the issue before a US congressional subcommittee in 2001.

The breakthrough came with her published interview with Yehuda Hiss, the chief pathologist at the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute – the sole Israeli facility authorized to conduct autopsies in cases of unnatural death.

Hiss admitted that Abu Kabir had harvested organs from Palestinian bodies without consent.

The Israeli state narrative, built through an internal investigation, claimed that the theft of organs did not specifically target Palestinians, but that Israeli soldiers were also victims. However, Israel’s Channel 2 ran a documentary on the issue, interviewing pathologists at Abu Kabir, one of whom explicitly stated that “we never took skin from the bodies of Israeli soldiers, but from the others.”

Scheper-Hughes stated in 2009 that much of the world’s illicit trafficking of kidneys can be traced back to the Israelis. “Israel is the top,” she said, claiming that “it has tentacles reaching out worldwide.” She reported that Israeli citizens, who were often compensated by the Ministry of Health and in a project backed by the Defense Ministry, were responsible for mass transplant tourism.

Israelis preyed on vulnerable populations from Brazil to the Philippines. A BBC report from 2001 even described a situation where “hundreds of Israelis have created a production line that starts in the villages of Moldova, where men today are walking around with one kidney.”

In what was a controversial article for its time, the Swedish Newspaper Aftonbladet published claims in 2009 that Palestinians had been targeted and killed for their organs by the Israeli military.

Although Israel and its supporters like to write off this entire scandal by claiming it was an isolated series of cases, Hiss and his fellow pathologists at Abu Kabir, who publicly admitted to organ theft, were not even penalized for their behavior. Hiss was not sentenced to a lengthy prison term; in fact, he was allowed to continue working at Abu Kabir.

In other words, there was never any accountability, simply an internal Israeli investigation, followed by pledges from the Israeli military and government that they no longer harvest the organs of Palestinians.

The numbers behind Tel Aviv’s record

The Israeli organization at the center of the current world-record claim is Matnat Chaim, founded in February 2009, shortly after Tel Aviv passed legislation banning organ trafficking. Jerusalem, where the organization is based, has therefore become the leading city in Israel for altruistic kidney donations. Tel Aviv claims Matnat Chaim surpassed 2,000 transplants, earning the record celebrated in January.

The available data raises obvious questions.

Between 2009 and 2021, Matnat Chaim said it performed 1,000 transplants. In 2022, according to the non-profit’s own figures, it facilitated 202 transplants, down from 215 the previous year. That means the publicly available total before the November 2023 allegations stood at 1,277. To reach 2,000, the organization would have had to add 723 transplants in just over three years.

According to Israel’s National Transplant Center, the total number of live donor transplants for 2023, 2024, and 2025 totaled 923. In 2022, the last year for which publicly available data on Matnat Chaim’s specific contributions are available, the organization accounted for 63 percent of live transplants. If that rate held, its share over those three years would be around 581 transplants, short of the 2,000 mark.

This does not, by itself, incriminate Matnat Chaim. But it does explain why Bursh questioned the claim at face value, especially in the shadow of Israel’s long record of organ theft and the testimony emerging from Gaza’s hospitals.

Another interesting fact, which supports skepticism surrounding the extremely high numbers boasted by Israel, is that only 14 percent of its population has signed the Adi (Ehud) Ben Dror donor card. This makes Israel amongst the lowest of any developed nation. In most western countries, the average is 30 percent of the population that signs on to donate their organs.

Organ donations have long been a contentious issue amongst Israelis. For example, the Chief Rabbi of British-occupied Palestine in 1931 had declared that the idea that the practice desecrates the dead is “unique to Jews … gentiles [had] no reason to be particularly careful about avoiding [it] if there is a natural purpose for doing so, such as medical reasons.”

In 1996, influential Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburgh of the Chabad Lubavitch sect asserted that if a Jewish person needs a liver, “can you take the liver of an innocent non-Jew passing by to save him? The Torah would probably permit that. Jewish life has infinite value. There is something infinitely more holy and unique about Jewish life than non-Jewish life.”

The current public position of Israel’s top religious authorities is that organ donation is permissible for Jews, but that consensus is relatively recent. Only over the past decade has there been a marked rise in Jewish donors. For many observant Jews, the issue remains contested.

That social context, combined with Israel’s relatively small population, makes it all the more suspicious as to why the Israel National Skin Bank (INSB), for example, has been reported as one of the largest, if not the largest, on earth. The INSB operates jointly under both the Israeli Ministry of Health and the military.

Desecration as policy

Israel has long treated Palestinian bodies as instruments of control. In 2017, Tel Aviv admitted losing track of the bodies of Palestinian political prisoners who died in detention. The explanation pointed to the Israeli practice of burying Palestinians in anonymous graves in what is known as the “cemetery of numbers,” a cruel method designed to deny families the location of their loved ones. Palestinians have also voiced fears that some of the missing bodies were robbed of their organs.

Beyond Palestine, Israelis have been repeatedly linked to organ trafficking cases around the world.

The only person ever convicted in the US of organ trafficking was an Israeli named Levy Izhak Rosenbaum. US District Judge Anne Thompson in New Jersey described him as a black-market “profiteer” who was “trading in human misery.” He served only two and a half years in prison and avoided deportation.

In 2010, five Israeli citizens, including a retired army general, were charged with running an organ trafficking ring. Their abusive scheme was described as a “form of modern slavery,” exploiting vulnerable people in developing countries for their organs. The case exposed an uncomfortable contradiction for the Israeli judicial system: conduct it was now prosecuting had, only two years earlier, been effectively tolerated by state structures.

In 2015, Turkish authorities arrested a suspected Israeli organ trafficker, investigating a ring that was responsible for targeting Syrian refugees. As recently as 2024, four Israeli nationals were arrested by the Turkish police in a crackdown on a separate ring that also preyed on Syrian refugees and other disadvantaged populations in Turkiye.

In 2018, the police in Cyprus arrested Israeli citizen Moshe Harel, accusing him of operating a global organ trafficking ring, in a scandal that dates back to 2008, when a Turkish man collapsed in a Pristina airport, visibly in pain after having his kidney removed. Harel had previously been arrested by Israeli authorities in 2012, but was released.

The aforementioned cases are now treated as illegal by the Israeli government. But there was a time when Israelis traveling abroad for organs were not only tolerated but effectively encouraged. That history helps explain why Israeli citizens keep appearing in organ trafficking scandals across continents. The Israeli Health Ministry itself helped foster a culture in which the bodies of the poor, the displaced, and the occupied could be turned into medical inventory.

Why no investigation?

Despite this documented history, western institutions continue to enable the Israeli military. In October last year, the University of Southern California (USC) was exposed for selling 32 human cadavers to the US military, which were used for surgical training by the Israeli military. The Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR) condemned the revelation as “disturbing.” The bodies of deceased Americans had been sold into a chain that served an army carrying out genocide in Gaza.

A month later, new allegations would then emerge from medical professionals in the Gaza Strip of organ theft. This came amidst the release of a batch of bodies to the Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, where a doctor remarked that “The bodies arrived stuffed with cotton, with gaps suggesting organs were removed. What we saw is indescribable.”

With a wealth of evidence and accusations indicating that Israel has been implicated in the systematic harvesting of organs during its genocide, it begs the question as to why no independent international investigation has yet been opened.

As in the early 1990s, Palestinian evidence is again being buried beneath western political protection, fear of Israel lobby retaliation, and the standing presumption that Israeli institutions can investigate themselves.

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Pepe Escobar: Trump in PANIC! Iran & China just WIPED OUT His WW3 Strategy
Danny Haiphong
May 16, 2026

Pepe Escobar joins the show to discuss the massive fallout of Trump's trip to China which has sparked a mad push by the US empire to renew its war on Iran despite the devastating consequences this would bring to both itself and the world.



Transcript

Welcome everyone. Welcome back to the show. Joanni Hiong. As you can see, I am joined by geopolitical analyst and
independent journalist Pepe Escobar. He is joining from Shanghai. And it is very good to see you, Pepe. Welcome back to the show.
Wonderful. Uh an enormous uh greeting uh to you, Denny, to all of you from Shanghai. It's uh 11 pm. So the night's still starting.
After a conversation, I'm hitting the night again. And and this is the cap this is the capital of the world. It's not even it's not even the capital only
of Asia. It's uh it's absolutely outstanding. There are two capitals of Asia nowadays. Bangkok in terms of soft
power, in terms now of service, in terms of the best gastronomy and Shanghai of course. all of that plus of course uh high-tech.
So, and uh there's a a rejuvenation of the city as well, especially alongside
the river to to the west bond. The boond is where the whole planet knows about the bond, but they are renovating other
parts of the bond and it's absolutely outstanding. and of course uh rediscovering little secrets of Shangai
especially trying uh to discover the new places as well. It's it's a full-time job. So it's an enormous pleasure. I had
a frenetic week because of course uh Goldfinger and Seada.
So from yesterday night to today finally I I managed to to relax a little bit. So you may notice that I am now extremely relaxed.
Well, that's great. Uh that's great to hear. Everyone hit the like button as you come on. That helps boost the show.
And well, Pepe, how about we get started with this? Um I know you recently wrote up uh uh an article uh titled Trump pays
tribute to the temple of heaven on the Trump summit that took place in Beijing.
And as this was going on, of course, there was a lot of talk about Iran.
There was a lot of talk about pressuring Xiinping and China on Iran. Now that Trump has landed back in the United
States. There are reports from the New York Times that uh Trump's advisors are drawing up and passing along all the
plans to renew strikes. uh this despite the fact that Donald Trump just said actually within the last I believe it
was the last or so that uh he didn't even talk to Trump about uh Iran and the straight of hormuz. So I'm I'm
curious on where you believe things are now. Leon Petta, the former uh CIA head just said that uh Iran has a gun to the
United States's head in the Straight of Hormuz right now. Uh there's moves to make the straight of hormones toll into a service fee that's just simply going
to be rolled into the daily ongoing uh machinations of their new mechanism. Um and it seems that uh there's not a lot
of good cards for Trump to play. That's exactly what Petta said in his piece to the times. So your thoughts on where things are here? It seems like China and
Iran in as well have uh uh played their hand very well when it comes to both the summit and the goings on around it.
Uh well Danny this is all so boring. My my first instinct is to say who gives a [ __ ] you know especially when you are in
Shanghai especially when you are in the middle of the future. But okay, we need to do a a little bit of a a professional
effort on a Saturday night to put this in perspective. So, I'll try to to be very brief about it.
Essentially, uh Trump in a matter of only a few days, he got two S and desist orders.
first from Putin and after that from Ciinping
did re-register that obviously not okay let's let's backtrack essentially
uh when Arai went to St. Petersburg and he met not only with Lavrov but with
Putin and he explained the Iranian position in full detail for one hour and
a half. That's a minister of foreign relations being received by the president of the Russian Federation.
These things don't happen every day.
Very very important. So what did Putin did afterwards? He picked up the phone.
He called uh Donald Trump. They were on the phone for over an hour and a half and basically Putin was explaining
everything that he heard in detail from Arai firsthand.
He is among other things he was saying look uh I um if you need me I can extricate you from this mess. Obviously
not in these words of course but this was the message.
if you need uh your offramp, I can help you and I can help to I can help you to
be the mediator with uh Iran. But and that was the first seize and desist
order. Don't try to do anything funny in terms of uh uh renewal of the war, a new
bombing campaign, bombing a civilian infrastructure in Iran, not to mention some sort of ground operation.
Obviously, Trump didn't register. So what happened this week in Beijing was
part two very very important before uh while
uh on Thursday she and and Trump were discussing that was the start in your daily
bricks foreign ministers um meeting which to give you the short version Danny and all of you the audience was a major disaster.
It was bad. Yes. Chaos.
It was as bad as it can get and it pains all of us who have been following bricks
in detail for years. And of course staking our professional reputation on
bricks as the future in terms of the multilateral organization of the future.
And I have to repeat this over and over again. bricks remains in a coma and it
was not this meeting in u um in Delhi that resuscitated Bricks. Uh Lavrov was
uh I would say uncharacteristically uh almost like retracting himself from what
happened. He was very he was almost somber in what he said. Uh there was not a joint statement. There was only a
statement released by the chair India and guess what Mai uh was doing
immediately after this summit in um Delhi. he is uh doing a a tour that
starting the Arab world and will go to Europe and struck uh closer partnership with the Emirates which by the way for
all practical purposes is at war against Iran and a big reason why there was this chaos at the summit because uh
exactly you know and these are two full bricks members
so uh I'm I'm sure all of you can imagine uh the atmosphere
at that table in Delhi when you had foreign minister of Iran and the foreign
minister of the Emirates face to face and uh it was almost uh coming coming to
blows territory and obviously who was doing the mediation essentially Lavrov
because of very good relations with with both sides. Wii was he in um Delhi? No.
Because the most important thing was to be side by side with she in Beijing uh in front of the American delegate,
Trump and the American delegation because of the several messages concerning Iran that came from sea very
very sophisticated and articulated but quite direct
and even um considering that they were more or less uh you
Uh, oh my god, the emperor of Barbaria is here. We have to appease him a little bit. Even if he came here to pay tribute
because the whole purpose of the strip, it was back to old dynastic China. This
was the emperor of Barbaria and his over $10 trillion CEOs
coming to Beijing with their hands like this and asking favors for from the big
panda himself. This is the headline of this trip and I use Temple of Heaven in my column in with several ironic overtones.
Uh I'm sure many of you have seen the official tourist photo of Ciinping and
um Trump in front of the temple of heaven. So he was given the court as he
uh allowed to enter the temple of heaven in more metaphorical ways than one. And of
course, he received a master class in civilization from the moment he stepped
foot on Beijing soil, including that fantastic private tour of the Jon Hanai,
which is true. And Sin Ping said that not many I not many people come here.
And this is from the time of Deng Xiaoing. But he said yes, but Putin was here. And obviously Siginping did the
full tour for Putin, but especially you know showing those those trees. Ah, this tree here is 250 years old.
As old as your exception this other one here is 400 years old.
So, so this this is this is how the Chinese do it and with a lot of class.
Obviously, this went over Trump's head because it's impossible for him to even understand that it's on the same level
of Marco Rubio like an idiot inside of the Great Hall of the People pointing to the ceiling, which by the way is
something that there are tours of the great hall of the people. You pay 50, you won and you can do a tour of the great hall of the people and look at the ceiling yourselves.
So, this idiot was trying to show to two other MS Hets and Miller, look at the ceiling. Oh, so typical barbarians when
they visit the court. No. So the the the uh the cultural uh h humiliation
of these Americans in Beijing was something for the whole world to watch and everybody watched it most of it.
Anyway, the season disease order was in many levels coming from sea.
Without saying it that they have a strategic partnership with Iran, which they do, by the way, and without saying
it that the straight of Hormuz for China is open because this is a government to government deal and Chinese tankers can
go back and forth in the straight of Hormuz with no problem whatsoever.
Basically, she said, "Yes, we agreed that the straight of Hormuz has to be open. We agree uh that Iran should not
have a nuclear weapon-c because this is one of the most obvious things on the planet. Every every kid knows that Iran doesn't want to have a nuclear weapon
since uh the first fatwa by Kmenini 47 46 years ago I think. Well, but of
course the season the Caesar desist in terms of Ron was saying u uh the indirect message uh don't try to
do anything to force the situation and basically the as indirect as saying that we are at this situ you uh the
government of United States you are in this situation because you launched this war essentially so C didn't have to get into too many details about Iran.
The cease and desist order was amplified to Taiwan because they can see uh what the
Americas were trying to do in Iran and how this war is against Iran and also against China. And in the future this
can go through another choke point Mala and then reach the south the South China Sea sorry and of course reach Taiwan.
So C refrained over and over again that Taiwan is a red line and basically he
was telling Trump don't try to pull anything fancy regarding Taiwan including your 11 billion weapons deal
which Trump when he back to the states said no I'm still thinking about it.
Yeah. So, uh, did Trump, uh, assimilate this sequential warnings by
Putin and by she these past few days?
I think we all have more or less the answer. Not really. And do the Chinese and do the Russians care? No. Guess
who's going to be in Beijing this Tuesday?
Vladimir. Yep. on an official visit. Do you think this is one of those uh uh
coincidence falling out of the temple of heaven? No. This was meticulously
prepared because now Putin will listen from she face to face exactly what she and Trump
discussed in Beijing. So what all all of these triangulations between the
interlocking uh uh strategic partnerships Iran, Russia and China are telling us is that they are forging
their path together. They don't care what the Americans are. Of course they care to a cert to a certain extent in
terms of the disturbance of their economies and of the global economy as a whole. But are they um intimidated by
this uh uh new version of American pressure on on three different fronts?
No, of course not. Because their decisions are interlocked and they discussed this among the three of them
over and over again. And all these meetings these past few weeks confirm that. Do they do does Trump understand
this? Of course not. Does Trump understand that uh in metaphorical ways and many more ways
than one he was ritually humiliated maxim pressure sty during this trip and
the Chinese didn't give him anything apart from being treated royally but that's typical that's that's Chinese
sophistication and class that's different did he get anything that the when you when you read the transcripts from the White House that they made
zillions of deals. No, none of that. If you go to the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, they're not admitting that any
deals were made. And in terms of the the bunch of CEOs with zillions of trillions
of dollars together market capitalization, we still don't know. They may have some crumbs here and there, but Jensen one from Vidya is not gonna get any crumb.
Forget it. He's having a good time though. I'm sorry. He's having a good time. Exactly.
17 minutesMusk apparently enjoy his dinner a lot as as we could see in the footage. But nothing's going to change much. By the
way, the their major uh Tesla [ __ ] factory is here is in Shanghai.
Nothing is going to change. So, so in fact uh Musk has to lobby Trump not to
slap extra tariffs because then his business with Tesla in China is going to be a in a major disaster. So, not much
has changed. Okay. If they're considering buying some boings, why not?
That's a goodwill gesture. And uh they're considering buying more soy beans. Okay, it's okay. It's not going
to cost them uh anything. Uh it's and it's something that they have. Okay, we gave you another favor. So, you have
to give us something later on. And it's a personal favor to Trump. Buying more soybeans means buying extra MAGA votes
18 minutesin the Midwest. The Chinese know exactly how it works and they know that they will be doing a personal favor to Trump.
But apart from that, anything um out of the ordinary? Uh no, nothing happened.
Uh and of course the the the contrast between the sophistication of the
reception and the rituals per se and these American delegation basically behaving like a bunch of hicks.
Yes.
This Yes. Like barbar like literal barbarians.
Literal barbar. But this this was and and here in Asia, Danny and all of you.
But this is the first thing that people all over Asia pay attention how you cannot lose face in the middle of pomp
and circumstance or behave like uh a barbarian which is exactly what happened. And uh and some extra details
which are quite telling at the state dinner. uh in each table there was a mix of Americans and Chinese sitting at the
same table. Did you see any of the Americans even trying to make an effort to strike conversations with and these people who were at the state dinner?
This is the top of the top of the top of the Chinese leadership and also business.
No. Trump and his people use they wouldn't even use translators. First of all, they're translating devices and there are people there ready to translate and they wouldn't
You're right, Denny. And and even if they needed translators, there were zillions of translators in the room.
Very very easy. And of course, many of these Chinese officials, they speak quite decent English. But the Americans,
they were huddled like in in a little club from the provinces. They didn't even try they even try to network to
work the room to talk to their Chinese counterparts. Nothing. So uh you know as more provincial than than that I I
cannot see it anywhere and it's uh but it's it was a very telling spectacle for
everyone they are they they don't even know what they're doing this it's too much now it's it's over there it's not
their pay grade it's way above you know they don't qualify uh so it's no wonder that there was
nothing that happened in in but in terms of the how China is engineering itself
to be at the absolute center and heart of the drive towards a multipolar world
and bypassing the Americas in each and every corner. This has been more than clear this past few days. And having the
president of the United States and the president of the Russian Federation coming to Beijing to talk to the big panda in the interval of five days that seals the deal.
Yeah. And we'll see the difference for sure uh in the the optics of it all because uh Vladimir Putin does not act
like Donald Trump. Donald Trump didn't even at the temple of heaven during that footage uh when um uh he was telling when Xiinping was telling Trump that
yeah no one no real diplomatic or or leader meetings happen here. We don't do that here usually except for Putin.
Trump was not even he doesn't even know how to use a translator. You're supposed to look at the this is the president of China. You're supposed to but any anyone
you're supposed to look at the person as you're asking the question and the translator then translate. you're supposed to ask the translator to ask
the person. It's just it just bo, you know, just uh blows my mind that this is um how, you know, American leaders act,
but at the same time, I'm not surprised because of the hubris, which then gets me to this Pepe.
Yes. Did the did the US delegation even realize that they were going in with
very few cards to play and that all of this talk about pressuring China on Iran only led to China reciting their
Xiinping and the rest of uh you know uh the Chinese brass reciting their actual position on the matter which equates to end the war and everything gets better.
And to me it seems like that spells out the landscape, right? If the US wants this, you know, global war, the third
world war of trying topple all of its uh so-called adversaries that form an alternative to it. Uh uh we see now
China and Iran stronger than ever really and that's that. Do they even realize this Pepe? I don't I don't know. But what's your thoughts on this?
No, no, no. They absolutely not. they are not uh mentally and intellectually
capable of even doing the previous homework to start to understand what the Chinese are doing.
I I want to concentrate here uh what this is what I think was the most important. Sigin Ping said many things
that went straight to the point, but the most I would say the most startling thing that he said in his inaugural speech was not even later like you know
in the in the when he was addressing Trump and the American delegation.
He basically he uh outlined in three words with something very Chinese
his vision for US China relations as he said at least for the next three years.
So this this is the Chinese thinking about the rest of Trump 2.0. It's not that they're thinking this this is going
to be the rest of the century. No, not like that. And the slogan is is a masterpiece especially a masterpiece in
terms of the Americans simply won't understand what he's talking about. The slogan is constructive strategic stability.
Okay, let's speak one by one. The empire of chaos, lies, splendor and now piracy.
Not now. I started already with Venezuela and continues with Iran. It's not constructive as we all know.
It's destructive. Yeah. Inherently destructive.
It's not strategic as we all know as well. At best, it's tactical, but crude
tactics and tactics that change all the time and tactics that come um out of the mind of the president of the United
States at 3 in the morning. uh he posts about it and I already uh uh forgot about his latest tactic. And of course, it's not an empire about uh stability.
It's about deploying, instilling, disseminating, chaos, lies, plunder, piracy, all of the above.
So how can not only Trump but the US ruling classes, the people who run the
show in US, how can they possibly understand a concept constructive strategic stability?
Absolutely impossible.
So uh on top of all that she said rationally uh in fact uh he didn't say
it uh he was thinking rationally how can I expect cooperation from these
people as he in his own words the main stay of the relationship and uh uh once again in his own words
healthy stability with competition within proper limits.
uh for the Americans is there are never proper limiters and on top of it they don't respect uh anything that is uh
mutually agreed or in writing to come back to our friend Grandmaster Lavro the
United States is non agreement capable so
is this China proposing to the US a structural reset Yes, it is. Is this the US not
understanding that they have to accept a structural reset otherwise it's going to be war against China.
So the Chinese are saying look uh let's try to have some cooperation uh and if we keep going on with uh let's
say manage competition it's fine but manage competition and in the end we could have to something resembling peace.
27 minutesDanny and all of you in our audience, can we realistically expect this Trump administration to follow this road?
No.
Chirp chirp chirp crickets. No. No. We cannot. We cannot.
And um it's so interesting because what you just outlined there, China was the
one to release an actual vision for how to move forward. The United States had zero. And usually the US does have a
posture toward China that they already uh are ready to articulate. this Trump administration has avoided this at all
costs in this current uh uh iteration uh and even tried to ignore in the national security strategy um any kind of direct
uh policy towards China and everything was really about China but uh focusing elsewhere and I think here Pepe um this
what you just outlined what China's vision it really seems like it's an opport it's like it's like China's offering the us an opportunity to roll
back and scale back many if not uh all of it if if if we're being ambitious but giving the opportunity to roll back
these self-destructive policies that only harm uh the world and of course harmed the United States far more than
they've harmed China. And I think that's a very interesting power dynamic that uh it's probably lost on the Trump
administration because all US administrations, they always come in very high on their own supply. They think they're the biggest and the baddest and and the best uh the most
exceptional. But even for I think many people observing, it might be difficult to see how that just happened and uh uh
it really marks I think a massive shift uh in the world. But your thoughts? Uh
absolutely and this is um how the two key powers driving
this long and winding road towards multipolarity how they are so uh intimately uh
coordinating the whole thing and this trip to putting uh by putting sorry to to Beijing uh on on Tuesday.
It's part of of the whole show. Let's put it this way. And of course, when we look at the parallel events,
why it was a major disaster, they already knew Russia and China that India, the foreign minister meeting
would be a major disaster, right?
Uh so uh and once again, it's going to be up to them, Russia and China to put the bricks Humpty Dumpty back together.
is going to be very very difficult because now we have a Ninja Emirates
problem at the heart of the 10 uh bricks members.
Partners is another story. If they were partners, this was not this would not be such a a big deal. But they are full members.
So when you have these two bricks full members totally aligned with Israel and
we have this uh okay we can try a a short definition Zionist Hindutva Wahhabi connection.
Yeah. Yeah. And Wahhabi with the ISIS overtones. Now that's a horrific triangle but yeah.
Yes. But this h this is as toxic as it gets in terms of uh triangles.
So how Russia and China which by the way have good relations with the with all
these three but how this is going to blow up the bricks construction from the
inside. So uh I interpreted what Lavro said which was uh you could see that it
was not the usual enthusiastic Lavro when he talks about bricks. Basically, he was admitting, "Oh my god, we have an
uphill struggle in front of in front of us, but it's inevitable. And if it's not us, nobody's going to do it." And
obviously, this will be discussed on Tuesday between Putin and she and obviously they have to think about what
Russia and China can do in this next what three months. Yeah, three or four months before the summit in September in
New Delhi. If if nothing is done, Bixs arrives at the summit in you know in
completely blown up from the inside which is the worst possible outcome.
But but but but if we can have a sort of parallel strategy
by uh Russia and China inside bricks and with some of uh the BRICS members. Uh I could venture maybe Brazil will be part
of it depending on how uh Lula feels that uh he can win the next election and
then his vision for bricks long term uh continues and the fact that he has very very good relationships concerning bricks with both Putin and C.
So they okay uh we now we coordinate uh how bricks is going to evolve from now on and the other ones they may sit at
the table but they won't be part of the key decisions but that's a an enormous step ahead
because theoretically and Lavrov was the first to say it over and over again. This is a
table where everybody has the same voice is economous etc. But there's got there's got to be some sort of hierarchy
inside bricks. Otherwise uh what the rest of the global south starting with
the 10 partners plus everybody that is on the list is still 30 something countries that are still on the list because they want to become partners or full members.
what they have achieved since uh the summit in Kazan in 2024 and it was not so bad at least at the
last minute the summit in real last last year is going to collapse completely and unfortunately
the leading uh multilateral organization in terms of formalizing this path towards the multipolar world
it's not the Shanghai corporation organization it's bricks So that uh could lead us to the possibility
that maybe in the midterm and the first one who actually saw this coming, Lucachenko,
they should merge and if they merge would be ab something absolutely fascinating because then we're going to be the whole we're going
to have the whole of Central Asia, not only two partners but the rest of Central Asia and we're going to have Pakistan on the table as well, which is
something that started it's starting to be discussed seriously by the Chinese by the Russians by many
members across the global south uh they are looking at this new uh Sunni the
four Sunnis let's put it this way sort of alliance in terms of finding a
solution for the US against Iran who do we find it we find Egypt which which is already a member of bricks.
We find uh Pakistan which could become a member. We find Saudi Arabia which still on the fence are they inside bricks or
not? They they still don't know because they are hedging all the time.
And we have Turkey who's dying to get into bricks but of course nobody trusts Erdogan.
Yeah, but the fact that this already exists uh Danny, it's a very very interesting and
this is something that I heard from some of my Pakistani sources. They are treating this very very seriously because they do want to get inside
bricks and they think that now they are earning the stripes because of the mediation. They earn their stripes and
they said oh look inside bricks as one of the leaders we are trying to position our ourselves as one of the leaders not
only in South Asia but across Asia and we are a nuclear power on top of it. U
bricks is natural territory for us. what is the Hindutva Zionist alliance is going to do about
that. So you know everything can go uh can be turned upside down in a matter of days in fact but the possibilities are
fascinating and they are realistic. They are realistic but once again in the driver's seat we're going to have some extra
details maybe not leaked this Tuesday once again Russia and China.
Yeah. Yeah. Well, the Pakistan question is very interesting given that uh CPEC
is very big, very big, China Pakistan economic corridor and what Pakistan has
already done to ease the um uh I guess the relative pain of the blockade for
Iran with the land routes and and and it being very public, right? I mean it's one thing that to just that for that just to exist but it's another thing for
it to be a very public showing and Pakistan not complaining about it unlike what we've seen with the UAE which the
UAE may very well with the Emirates may very well uh further uh diminish not just the US's position but also any of
these monarchies that want to uh hedge too far uh to the USIsraeli camp in that uh now the UAE is complaining I I don't
know if you saw this complaining that Israel has leaked all of the secrets of their canoodling and planning and and all of this uh uh meetings, a secret
meeting from Netanyahu uh uh to broker this war. Now we're hearing rumblings that a lot of these monarchies are not
happy with the UAE and this could Saudi Arabia is not happy. Kuwait, for whatever that's worth, is not happy. and
they're not uh they're not loving uh any any kind of uh mending of ties especially Saudi and UAE which are very
bad already but um they're not uh they're not loving what the UAE is doing. So this it it's causing a lot of problems within bricks but uh also it
seems like it's a very desperate situation. You know Trump is looking for big wins now or the optics of a victory.
He just bombed Nigeria. some uh some ISIS leader that colleagues at DDGO politics say might not even have been
alive already or or uh uh and of course um you know with all this rumors about
bombing Iran again it's obvious the US is feeling very insecure and I see this gamble on the UAE as like the big proxy
for the US to administer any kind of a regional hegemony in the is super desperate and and seems to be a recipe
for disaster. But what are your thoughts on this?
Uh uh totally desperate and uh they put all their cards on MBZ.
So MBZ is going to be our proxy in the Persian Gulf. Uh they looked at how Saudi Arabia is hedging.
uh for the moment they are not doing anything against Saudi Arabia because Saudi Arabia NBS is widely enough not to
directly antagonize the Americans but uh very very important their foreign ministers Saudi Arabia and Iran they're
talking extremely important uh this four uh the uh let's say the coalition of the
four Sunnis let's put it this way it's still there and it's um solidifying
itself and of course they are looking at a a place
a multilateral place for them would be bricks assuming somebody will trust Erdogan. Okay, nobody can bet on this one, right?
But um the way Pakistan has been helping uh
Iran practically in terms of opening the six overland corridors with Pakistan and even opening the port of Guada to Iran.
Guada now is working also as an Iranian port. This is immense because uh until
what a few months ago, two or three months ago, when we looked at the the situation between the sea of Oman and
the Arabian Sea, okay, we have two competing ports 80 kilometers away. When I was in Chabahar, it was fascinating
when I was discussing with the the guys at the ports. I said, "Yeah, Guad is our is our uh neighbor. They're 80 kilometers from here and it's
essentially a a very important port for China. But then I looked around and I saw a few Chinese tankers say, "Okay,
but look what are these Chinese tankers doing here?" And they said, "Yeah, of course they come." Okay, every week or
every week there's one or two Chinese tankers who are coming here obviously because the Chinese are already looking at Chabahara. I said, "Wow, let's turn
this into a Chinese port as well." So from an Iranian point of view, not only Chabahar is going to be very
important because of the international or south transportation corridor, but it could even be incorporated into the Chinese new silk roads.
Mhm.
This is this is fascinating. Nobody uh Danny and all of you could expect
this to happen. and uh uh it reveals a lot of goodwill by the Pakistan and the
relationship between Iran and Pakistan now is is is probably the strongest in in decades. Yeah, this is really really good. And of
course, Iran is going to say, "Look, let's bring these guys in into bricks as well." It's something that China would say yes.
Something that Russia would say yes once again. What's going to be the reaction of the Zionista alliance?
Yeah, India. I mean, the the thing with that too is uh and that's exactly what you're saying earlier about bricks needing to drop this consensus uh model.
Yeah. I mean when you have India of course with Pakistan relations are always they're just not good because of that history and and that current
reality. Then you have the UAE of course look at what we just talked about with the role that it's playing. Yeah.
There's there's there are players inside of bricks that are they're they're spoilers. You know, they they are playing uh kind of um uh you know, in
the US sense we we think of like gridlock and and blocking, you know, uh uh what's that term that we use here? Um
filibustering, right? Like they no one's giving a 23-hour speech or sitting at the podium for , but they're trying to do the similar thing, which is
to to block any of this kind of progress. And uh Pepe during this period of hostilities and war on Iran, I mean
the way Iran has been speaking about Pakistan and even the way Iran has behaved at the goodwill like Iran has uh
likely engaged in more talks than they've wanted to with the United States in large part because they want to be respectful to Pakistan playing this role
as mediator because it uh uh it gives Pakistan a lot of uh prestige and it it elevates its role in
the world and I think Iran sees that as a very good thing too and of course uh China was uh right
behind it from the beginning. You remember, I'm sure all of you remember that after the four Sunnis met for the
first time in Islamabad, the next morning, the Pakistani foreign minister
hopped on a plane to talk to Wangi in Beijing, of course, and the Chinese were right
behind looking at, okay, you have to try harder. Okay, this is and then we got to finally we got to the Islamabad meeting which by the way was completely [ __ ]
up by the Americans once again but China from the beginning was supporting everything that Pakistan was doing in
terms of establishing themselves as credible mediators but then uh the way it is now
we don't even know if the Americans are going to use the Pakistanis as mediators anymore uh for all practical purpose purposes.
Correct me if I'm wrong. Uh diplomacy is dead at the moment. No. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. It's dead. I mean, the US is What did Iran just say that uh thei the United States is not being serious? The
US if the US is serious then maybe talks could occur, but how the US is not being serious when they're constantly talking
about bombing Iran. Now they're they're rehashing these same plans too.
and oh sees the uranium okay hitting the energy sites it's like this loop that the US is on and um since the last time
we spoke uh the US now if anyone who pays attention to what the wararm mongers are saying where we have the
center for strategic international studies uh talking about how the US is completely attrated militarily and then
you had Robert Kagan the top neocon of the uh you know the project for a new American century uh outline in a piece
in the Atlantic of all places you know the one of the top neocon rags at this point uh about how the US has lost and
it wasn't to push like John Bolton has been pushing for more bombings. It was to push for a maybe you should maybe the
US needs to think long and hard about how it how it moves now after uh all that's transpired which Robert Kagan
said has been a big blow has been a checkmate for Iran. I mean this is this is a different reality. I mean this is a different reality the US is now
having to contend with. But your your reactions to this because it seems like this is playing a heavy weight on on the Empire of
Chaos's shoulders. uh Danny and all of you to watch all this from here from
from China and uh close to the Chinese point of view it's uh I see it doesn't even qualify as pathetic of course with
tragic overtones when we look at all the millions of death
directly caused by the project of the new American century and these bloody neocons of course these are serial
tragedies. But the way they are now scurrying away like rats because the plans, all their elaborate plans
collapsed like the end without the doors soundtrack.
And we have this guy married to the woman who basically organized Mayan in 2014.
this guy who used to be an idol of Barack Obama who used to parade in Washington carrying Kagan's books.
But there is a there's a there's another agenda on it. Uh Danny, there's another agenda on it. Basically, they need to
reformulate their plans for the forever war against Islam as a whole, not only
against Iran. So they are still thinking how they're going to do that. So this may be a let's say a temporary act of
contrition but never forget these people don't do contrition. These people are
killer. They are very very dangerous and they want to come up with something else and they still don't have it in their hands.
They know that this current uh war, at least those with an IQ over 50, like
Kagan, they see the strategic defeat because it's obvious for a 5-year-old already.
But okay, how do we reformulate the project for the new lost American center? They will never give up.
Never, never, never give up. So uh we should take this act of false contrition with I would say barrels of salt.
Yeah. Yeah. I mean it appears uh you know there was a narrative I don't know if you saw in all of the western
mainstream media covering the uh she Trump summit. Uh talk about China buying time. China's buying time. China you
know in large part I think it's the opposite.
It's like like China's having a good time. I don't know. Like when I was there, I was just there m middle of April. It's like China's having a good time. Like people are living life
normally. Their lives are getting better. You know, all the things that I see often every time I go to China seem
to be the same, if not uh better. So uh but for the United States, it seems like that's what the US is kind of doing
right now. It's like they they I think there is some understanding amongst some of the Pentagon brass that
a renewing war with Iran will lead to disastrous consequences. Um and that's why there's this like delay. You know,
every seems like every other day there's some market manipulation. We're going to bomb. No, we're not going to bomb. We're going to bomb. No, we're not going to bomb. Um,
but also with Russia and China and really the rest of this, even Cuba, I don't know if you've seen there's there's a lot of hesitations about even
uh Cuba. We just Robert Gates was just on I believe it was Fox News and he said, "Ah, you know, Cuba, it's not the only threat is if we destabilize Cuba
and then Cuba, a lot of Cubans will come here. If they collapse, that's the big threat." Uh, but played it off. few this this is the CIA I mean you know playing
it off as uh maybe not so much the Republicans in Congress are worried about a if Trump pulls a trigger on Cuba
because uh it might not go very well and you know elections are six months away less than that so um I think there's a
lot of the US buying time here and trying to figure out how do we exactly as you said continue on this project of
uh trying to knock out the multi multipolar world. I don't think they really know right now how to go about that. What's your
They are absolutely clueless and especially after the master class of civilization that they got in Beijing
which was basically a very very elegant slap on their barbaric faces.
Yeah, they will not learn. It's, you know, it's it's inherently impossible
psychologically, culturally, uh, this toxic mix of ignorance and arrogance which is
perpetuates itself all the time. It's impossible for them to understand it.
And it's not an accident that uh uh the president steps back uh inside Washington and they start talking again.
Okay. uh we need to start bombing Iran again. This is completely nuts.
Completely. It proves that nobody understood what Siinping was telling them obviously and beyond and before what Putin was telling them as well.
Yeah. Well, the actions of people No, continue. Sorry. Sorry. Continue.
Yeah. So we all when I say we uh in fact we the global economy
independence the global south and a great deal of the global north as well we continue to be hostages to these barbarians
52 minutesand some of them now uh trying to say look it's not exactly what we wanted the
the Kagan affair right look but
My my perspective at the moment it's uh because it's so it's like from another planet
to watch all these American minations and imperial machinations from China.
It it's beyond it's another galaxy in fact and they don't care and that's even better. they are discussing here is how
are we going to implement the targets of the five-year plan which starts this year. This is the only thing that they
are discussing. I had a business discussion at the boomed finance center here. I don't know if you've been there uh um Danny it's fantastic to
the finance center but yeah absolutely outstanding and they were saying look we we really don't care about all all we we have all these um uh
reorganiz domestic reorganizations in terms of productivity in terms of incorporating uh artificial intelligence
in every sector of the Chinese economy but we have to think about we cannot have zillions of people losing their jobs how we going to train these people
for next jobs etc. So, so this is what they're thinking about. And when you talk to younger people, I I had a
striking experience that I I I I'll need time to process. I was talking to a stunning stunningly beautiful young
Shanghai and she was and then and then I asked if her opinion reflect uh the people the circles where where she goes or friends.
He said, "Yeah, absolutely. What I'm telling you is what all of us discuss all the time. They think that the government doesn't pay attention to them.
This is extremely serious because we are talking about the cultural and business capital of China. So if we have
well-informed uh members of the next generations, you know, in their early 20s now, thinking
that the government is not paying attention to them, wow, they're going to have huge problem ahead.
So this this internal contradictions this is something that the communist party will have to address seriously
and of course business people say look there are lots of internal problem in China but this next five-year plan we're going to streamline all that because
we'll be paying more attention to what we need to do uh internally uh compared to foreign policy. foreign policy. They
know, look, our only problem is those barbarians in the US, but we know how to manage them from afar as long as they
don't come here to make trouble. And that's exactly what essentially C said to Trumping, right?
Taiwan is an absolute red line. Don't even think of doing anything about that's it.
The rest is okay because they have excellent relations all across the global south. Even with the Europeans, they know the Europeans need um uh
China. So they're not worried. Their foreign policy is, you know, it's a a steady drive. Yeah.
And their occupations are all domestic.
Totally. I mean, every time I'm there, that's the narrative I hear is uh that, you know, because and it and it's partly
because China's development has sped up so fast and certain areas like like tech have become so immensely competitive and
you have this drive where all young people want to be in the high-tech
sector and uh that is uh becoming just a
56 minutesglut like people like and so you have all of these young people want in there and there's there now needs to be attention I mean China is talking about
quality development all the time right quality over quant now there's this push toward quality development and I think that's where the push is going to have
to be is now pe now now now young people are going to have to be convinced that there are other places to go that are uh
just as lucrative or or maybe um not as lucrative but just as important to uh plug into that's the big problem I see
with Chinese young people, they always say not enough jobs, not enough jobs.
And a lot of it is, yeah, they don't want to work the jobs that their parents worked anymore. They don't want to do that. They don't want, you know, they don't want to work in the factories, even though factories are
okay to work, but they don't want to work in the factory. They want to be, you know, at 10 cent or uh, you know, Ant Group or whatever, but not
everyone's going to be there. You can't do it. So, it's a big struggle. Um, a big struggle that we'll have to be.
Danny, I don't know if you there's a clip of Jensen Hong. Somebody shows him the Huawei Huawei phone.
The Huawei trifold, which by the way, I was here last year. It came out last year. So, here is very old news. He was stunned when he saw the Huawei trip.
This is Nvidia CE.
What? He was like, "What is this?" Incredible. No, it's incredible. That's incredible. Pepe, we have one question from the audience. I think it's a really
good one because it's something that I think needs to be addressed more and then we can head out of here. Uh Richard Adams asked, "Is there any plan?" Yes,
US diplomats uh in the US, if we can call them diplomats, but yes, the US uh delegation looked dumb, but Chevron and Exon Mobile and Black Rockck are making
record profits. And now there's this argument, because that is 100% true. There's this argument that um you know what the US is
doing is succeeding because of the blockades and the oil markets. You know there's attacks on Russia's oil, there's
attacks on Iran's oil, Venezuela of course and that's succeeding. That's success for the US uh because they're
making record profits and you know uh with the LNG and of course Black Rockck's always making record profits. But what's your thoughts on this?
Because while yes under global monopoly capital uh profits are indeed the only thing
that matters but uh I think the world I think the contradictions are a little bit more complex than this. What's your uh uh thoughts on this question?
Well basically hyper capitalism the only thing that matters is profits and the only thing that matters for them is Wall
Street. Absolutely. So why Larry think was in this delegation that came here?
Because he wants to open up the Chinese market for Black Rocks and for Wall Street.
The Chinese didn't even bother to talk to him in detail. And one of one of u the business people here, he said, "Ah,
maybe the Chinese are going to open an office of Black Rock in Hainan Island." you know, okay, you stay here. You do
your business here in the in our uh offshore island and that's it. Forget about getting inside the Chinese
financial market because they know what they know what Black Rock means, of course. So, but the
only thing that matters for all these people, yes, they are making a lot of money everywhere. No question. And and
that's the difference between these um American oligarchic corporate giants and
the Chinese giants. The Chinese giants are they're looking globally of course and now they have penetration in every
continent but their focus is still the domestic market. Yeah.
And it is absolutely mindboggling. I saw uh one of the stateofthe-arts SUVs
yesterday. I thought, "Wow, you are already in 2030 when you see something like this." The West people don't even
know stuff like that exists and it's already here and you see it in the streets of Shanghai, you know.
Yeah. And now we're seeing in the streets of uh Pyongyang and DPRK Reuters Reuters and their mind blown that there
are electric vehicles everywhere and they're all Chinese. It's like whoa what uh the countries that border each other just are trading in automobiles. That's
like that's so wild. But yes, that is happening. And uh the world a lot of the world is benefiting from Chinese EVs.
And the US is on its island over here.
Um tariffing itself out of the market.
That border uh in the Alo River. Uh Danny, soon the North Korean side is
going to look like the um like China when when I did that by train
2010 2010 a long time ago in 2010. Uh we took the train from Pyongyang and we crossed the Yellow River and then you
have to change the trains to go all the way to Beijing. On the North Korean side, there was nothing. And on the uh
Chinese side, of course, the typical me Chinese mega city. Soon you're going to have that on the North Korean side as well. Yeah.
Because that border will not be a border anymore. It's going to be business back and forth. Absolutely. Yeah.
That's great. Yeah. No, it's incredible.
And I've been to Jin. I didn't get it close to the border, but I've been to Chonguen and and Seping and Yeah. Know,
I could see it. I can see it like and you know that's the region too. I mean it used to be an incredibly poor region.
Um but now it's the site of a lot of the uh transportation infrastructure. That's where a lot of it is built actually. So
makes a lot of sense for uh the DPRK to get to get in on that especially at premium prices which um that's the
that's the that's the benefit. I mean that's why China is blowing up in coordination with Russia Danny as well. Oh yeah,
Russia and China are coordinating uh with North Korea. So they're going to
electrify North North Korea and um sooner rather than later, I would say it's going to be a highspeed rail.
Yeah. All over.
And don't forget the border between Russia and North Korea is ve it's 120 kilometers in fact from Vladivosto. It's
literally around the corner. This is something that they discuss every year at the forum in Vladivosto. Some of the
most interesting uh roundts in Vladivosto. They are about okay let's let's do our connectivity corridors here
and that is essentially North Korea, China, uh Russia, the Russian Far East and then all the way via the Trans
Siberian or internally to western Russia. So this means North Korea will have the Russian market for them and even beyond if they want to export.
Fantastic.
Yeah. Well, I'd say that's the plan that the plan is uh there's, you know, Black Rockck, Chevron, Exxon Mobile. Yeah.
They'll do their thing and that's a lot of Americans are going to have to take care of business uh uh and uh uh address
that. But you know, China and now what are the actual pillars of the multipolar world? they're going to they're going to take care of their own business and and
I think that's really the plan is to yeah to do that so you can become like Iran has now become uh in many ways uh but
China even more so just you know countries that are incredibly difficult to uh to defeat militarily which is all
the US they're sovereign exactly because they are independent and sovereign two key words mentioned by Vladimir
Putin when he was addressing pressing Arai in St. Petersburg. Sovereignty and independence. That's it.
That's the definition for a global south that works, that has punch.
Well, Pepe, um, this was a great conversation. Uh I want to make sure
everybody knows that um uh the uh uh article that you wrote on the she putin
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Uh well, from Shanghai is um it's great because I'm going to spend some time here before going back to Moscow or
maybe the St. Petersburg uh uh sorry uh summit which is in early June. So I'm going to I'm going to be here till the
end of the month. And it's great because I'm going to I can explore areas in Shanghai that are developing fast new
ones what the local government is doing and and all that and be very very far away from all these
horrors in the west. Not to mention the gastronomy. I just came back from a ridiculous Shaolong Bao dinner. There you go.
Yeah. No. Okay.
Oh, there's there's fewer places in the world farther away than uh from the west than Shanghai. So, uh you are you are
safe there. Uh all right, everybody. Hit the hit the like button before you know we are out of here. See you again tomorrow, 12 PM Eastern time. Bye bye.
Thank you. Cheers.