As Xi Jinping arrives in Saudi Arabia, amid questions about the future of the petrodollar, decline in US bound exports from China slow dramatically ..read more

The passions of Democracy rise in the most unlikely place. As and apartment building burns with people locked into their apartments and World Cup spectators celebrate mask-less in huge crowds, the Zero-COVID policy and Xi's "president for life" status are too much for the people to bear. The people of China are inspiring us to fight for our freedoms ..read more

Integrative medicine practitioner Dr. Frank He tells us how changes in China's medical industry, due to the corrupting effects of big pharma money, would have prevented him from providing treatment during the pandemic, had he not moved to the US. Amy and Michael discuss the machinations behind Xi Jinping's ouster of both Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao, along with their corresponding factions, explaining that Xi convinced Hu to help remove Jiang, before Xi betrayed Hu and removed him as well ..read more

Amy Hao joins us to greatly illuminate the hidden subtexts of the on going 20th Communist Party Congress in Beijing. She explains why senior party leaders don't wear Covid masks, while lower ranked party members do. She also mentions that 4 high ranking party members, including Jiang Zemin were absent and that one party member did not clap when everyone else did. The conversation also turns to the clandestine power of Blackrock, the semiconductor trade war and the best way for the US to effect positive political change in China ..read more

Amy Hao joins us to illuminate the political tinderbox of the CCP's Twentieth Party Congress starting Oct 16th. Is a recent demonstration on a bridge in Beijing a minor incident or a spark that will lead to a major conflagration? If reaffirmed in his various rolls as leader of the CCP, will Xi reverse his Zero Covid policy or will he hang on to the immense power those restrictions give the state? With the US Commerce Department acting to dramatically curtail Chinese imports of advanced semiconductors and semiconductor manufacturing equipment, will the CCP retaliate with an export ban on rare e ..read more

According to whistle blowing NGO Safeguard Defenders, Chinese quasi-police stations have been established throughout the globe and "Chinese authorities claim that from April 2021 to July 2022, 230,000 nationals had been “persuaded to return” to face criminal proceedings in China". One of the police stations is in New York city, home of many Uyghur and the Shen Yun dance company. The PLA Navy has been caught on satellite imagery conducting amphibious landing exercises using supposedly civilian ferries. Peter Zeihan predicts "The End Of China Has Begun", citing China's demographic decline and in ..read more

With Guam rapidly preparing for the possibility of defending its self from a "Pearl Harbor" like strike and two of the worlds most strategically sensitive pipelines, we ask the question "Are we at a tipping point?" David points out a surprising and rising amount amount of domestic support on mainland China for the use of military force to "re-unify" Taiwan. While Michael describes the comical situation where Xie Zhenhua, leader of China's climate negotiations, chides Europe for backsliding on their climate goals. Billy also points out that Blackrock and Vanguard are on course to own just about ..read more

Michael Olson starts off the show describing the many parallels between contemporary "Wokeism" and historical Maoism, suggesting that constant social disruption are the key to power in both cases. David Welch describes the underlying condition has apparently provoked a free fall in Chinese real estate. Bill Graff points out the unbalanced nature of the Paris Climate Accords, which place significant CO2 reduction targets on the West while giving China a free pass to build a massive amount of new coal fired energy production capacity through 2030. Jonty McCollyer describes the caricature of, wha ..read more

As Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin meet on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Uzbekistan, questions about the economic and military relationship between China and Russia abound. With Xi's likely re-election in October approaching, what are the knock-on effects of his particular brand of authoritarianism, extreme even by the CCP's standards. When two concerned citizens and election researchers discovered US poll worker data being stored on an open database in mainland China, they brought it to the attention of the FBI. After 15 months of investigation, the case was handed t ..read more

As the Solomon Islands recently denied a port call to US warships, Cambodia seems to be joining the Belt and Road initiative and Nicaragua has seized the Taiwanese Embassy and handed it to Mainland China. In this context, our team of China Watchers discusses what strategic acquisitions China needs most to assert its growing hegemony ..read more