China Is Sealing Itself Off—Here’s How Xi Is Doing It
China is cracking down on foreign chips and communication tools that could allow its citizens free access to the outside world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_cPgPusjvA
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The US as a Declining Power
Trump praised Xi like a sycophant. Xi did not return the words.
Trump has accelerated American decline. Further polarizing the country, getting the US into a so-far unsuccessful war with Iran, weakening relationships with allies, removing quality immigrants along with the bad ones, increasing corruption, weakening the ability of the country to tax its wealthy citizens, broad and unstrategic tariffs that weaken the US economy, etcetera…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V48nZHKih8
The Room Where It Happened: What the Media Missed About the Trump-Xi Meeting
The Room Where It Happened: What the Media Missed About the Trump-Xi Meeting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V17o5SEY9So
What the Xi–Trump Summit Means for the US–China Power Race
We need engineers and technologists to advance the country forward, including in the government. It’s a great tragedy that when we gave a technologist, Elon Musk, great governmental power, he used it not to build, but to destroy. Rather than using his business and technical expertise to make government better, he used his biased ideology and political incompetence to destroy things that were providing good to Americans and the world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI0f_iVcDQ8
Xi Purged His Top General—What It Means for Taiwan
Xi Purged His Top General—What It Means for Taiwan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vnZuTYFV_U
Just in: Zhang Youxia’s open Letter and the Fracture Inside China’s Military
Respected general arrested by Chinese President Xi may have written a letter describing the problems with Xi’s rule and warning of where Xi is taking the country. He may have not actually written this letter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95AyrNmoEYg
Trump’s been played by Xi in China deal | Justin Wolfers
Trump’s deal with China has made things less bad than they were before the meeting, but they are still way worse than they were before Trump engaged in a trade war with China.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr-gB3BNykQ
Don’t Be Fooled by a Trump-Xi Deal on TikTok
“Over the last eight months, the Trump administration has run roughshod over Congress and its constitutional prerogatives. Trump’s decision to ignore the TikTok ban on his first day in office may seem minor in the grand scheme of things, but it foreshadowed a series of far more aggressive moves to usurp much of lawmakers’ constitutional authority: dismantling congressionally-created agencies, redirecting congressionally appropriated funds and implementing a massive tax hike on the American public in the form of Trump’s chaotic tariff regime.
The vast majority of this was made possible by congressional Republicans, who have largely turned a blind eye to all of Trump’s gambits, and by the Republican appointees on the Supreme Court, who have handed Trump a series of victories this year in his wide-ranging efforts to both unilaterally slash the federal government while dramatically expanding the powers of the presidency.
The acquiescence to Trump’s TikTok reprieve this year has been a far more bipartisan affair, but it has been a constitutional farce all the same, and it is not over yet.”
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/09/19/tiktok-trump-xi-deal-law-column-00571832
Xi Jinping’s surprise no-show at BRICS Summit fuels speculation about China’s global standing
“despite its scale, the bloc remains ideologically and strategically fragmented. “It’s a group of countries that hate each other,” Burack said bluntly. “China is harming many of them through unfair trade practices. There’s not a lot of incentive for real unity.”
The alliance’s aspirations to challenge the U.S. dollar through alternative payment systems and a potential BRICS currency have gained media traction — but experts caution against overestimating this threat.
“There’s been a lot of fearmongering about a BRICS currency,” said Burack. “But the interests of these countries are completely divergent. There’s more smoke than fire when it comes to a currency challenge to the dollar.””
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“While its cohesion remains questionable, BRICS poses a long-term challenge to U.S. influence — particularly in regions where Washington has retreated diplomatically and economically.
“China filled the void left by the U.S. in places like Africa,” said Briggs. “Now it controls about 38% of the world’s minerals. Meanwhile, Russia’s economy has doubled despite sanctions, because they preemptively reduced reliance on the dollar.”
Yet Chang sees India as a brake on any aggressive anti-Western tilt. “BRICS has an ‘I’ in it—and that’s India. Modi doesn’t want to be part of an anti-Western bloc. As long as India’s in BRICS, the rest of the world is safe.””
https://www.yahoo.com/news/xi-jinping-surprise-no-show-140004411.html
Fireside Chat With Stephen Kotkin & US House Select Committee on China | Hoover Institution
Asking what Xi wants is the wrong question because the appetite grows in the eating. Even if Xi just wants to dominate East and Southeast Asia right now, once China has gained that, their appetite will grow and they will want more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aQfzDs7RzI