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On One Nation with Brian Kilmeade tonight at 10 p.m. to discuss the Trump-Xi Summit and U.S.-China relations. China's elaborate summit pageantry masks a weakened nation whose grand strategy has collapsed. With its economy under pressure and its global ambitions frustrated, Xi is quietly aligning with Trump on Iran and seeking stability — because he has no other choice.

Some Brits are bizarrely misreading what actually happened in Beijing. Aside from a few expected deals on beans, Boeings, and chips, Trump scored a major victory on Iran. China, on its own and without US prompting, has adopted the U.S. positions that (1) Strait of Hormuz must be opened, (2) Iran must not charge tolls, (3) Iran must not have nuclear weapons. In other words, Xi is quietly aligning with Trump on Iran—because he has no choice. Teheran is very upset, saying “Those who betray in secret will be exposed in public.” "Diplomacy is the art of letting the other party have things your way." Daniele Varè

A Canadian chipmunk named Carney is about to be run over by a Chinese electric vehicle.

Putin appears defeated psychologically. Russia's disastrous war on Ukraine may take a decided turn for the worse for Moscow over the summer. Added to the imminent collapse of the corrupt death cult in Iran, China will find itself with an absence of allies - except for its fifth columnists and spies in the West.

ewtnnews.com/watch/clips/34… Takeaways from Trump's visit to China. My interview with Raymond Arroyo's on EWTN's The World Over. China showed an amazing amount of deference to the American leader.

@AFpost Let in undergraduate students if you must, but no students should be allowed into graduate STEM fields--ZERO.

Trump moves forward with proposal to admit 500k Chinese students, saying it will help keep universities afloat as part of negotiations with China. Follow: @AFpost

PRI President @StevenWMosher joined @Varneyco on @FoxBusiness to discuss the importance of Taiwan amid U.S.-China talks. foxbusiness.com/video/63955360…

I called out Kamala Harris as a Marxist during the 2024 campaign. She has now proved it by her “No Bad Idea Brainstorm”: Abolishing the Electoral College, since no one should care about small-population red states. “Supreme Court reform,” or expanding the court from nine justices to 13, so they can install four leftists right away. Multi-member legislative districts, being pushed by leftist groups like the Brennan Center for Justice. Rules to “penalize” potential Supreme Court justices for “lying” to the Senate Judiciary Committee about how they would vote on, say, abortion. Statehood for the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico to add 4 more Democrats to the Senate. Sounding like Lenin, Kamala said, “We gotta fire with fire,” “We gotta be ruthless, too.” "Ruthless" as in seizing control of the Judicial and Legislative branches of gov't so they can again tyrannize us using the Executive branch. The Left-Wing of the Democrat Party hates the Republic.

Rising East and Failing West no longer matters ... because it is no longer true. The West is Rising, while the East is Failing.

foxbusiness.com/video/63955360… China is negotiating from a position of weakness--and they know it. On with Stuart Varney of Fox Business. Trump is not going to give an inch.

On with Carl Jackson to talk about the Trump-Xi Summit.

ntd.com/ntdplus/us-cha… Good discussion with my anti-ccp friends at New Tang Dynasty Television.

@MsMelChen Of course Trump is smiling. He is holding a gun to Xi's head. The gun has various names: Tariffs, Energy, Japan, Chips, Military Prowess, Sanctions, Panama, Venezuela, Iran, Cuba .... And more names are being added all the time.

Everyone who is up in arms about Trump "kissing Xi's ass" needs to understand that this is realpolitik and dealmaking. Trump is, by a mile, the most aggressive president America has had against the CCP in modern history. No one else imposed sweeping tariffs on Chinese goods, banned Huawei from domestic networks, put the entire CCP military-linked ecosystem on the entity list, restricted semiconductor exports, strengthened the Quad, and publicly called out China's currency manipulation, IP theft, forced tech transfers, and South China Sea aggression the way he did. Pre-presidency Trump was blunt. If you recall, as a candidate, he often complained about how "China was screwing us over." Literally in 2016 on the campaign trail, he said that "China is raping us." You need to understand that this posture completely shattered what was bipartisan elite consensus at the time - which was that more engagement with China on economic terms would liberalize and democratize China (ethnocentric projection once again), and that as China became more integrated into the global system, they would act more and more like responsible stakeholders. Every President since Nixon pushed closer economic integration while ignoring the OBVIOUS signs. This was especially supercharged under Bush, Clinton and Obama (but not Biden). And yet at the time, the mainstream media painted him as a xenophobe for this kind of rhetoric. It wasn't even a subtext - they directly alluded to how Trump was being racist against the Chinese for calling out their unfair trade practices. Once in office, Trump refined it into a strategy that actually moved the needle while dialing back his strong rhetoric. The personal flattery - calling Xi a "great leader," talking up respect for China, saying they'll have a "fantastic future together," is all Machiavellian Art of the Deal stuff. Flattery costs nothing and makes the other guy more willing to give ground without looking like he's folding domestically. The CCP's entire system is built on the leader's prestige. Publicly humiliating Xi or treating him like a subordinate would make him dig in, rally nationalists, and push him to retaliate harder just to save face. I don't actually think Trump knows about Chinese "honor culture" and the obsession with mianzi (face), but for whatever reason, Trump instinctively understands authoritarian psychology and how to work with it. The problem is that intellectual types, especially those steeped in liberal internationalist frameworks, tend to struggle with parsing the difference between rhetoric vs. revealed preferences. They're hard-wired to overweight the former. They treat diplomatic language as a window into the soul, as if it maps directly onto intent rather than as front-facing tool of statecraft. China weaponizes this brilliantly. It's a lesson everyone should've learned by now. With Trump, ignore the optics and ignore what he says. Just look at his actions, and look at his results.

@CongChrisSmith of New Jersey has been helping to expose human rights violations in China for decades ... The violations have only gotten more grievous and dehumanizing. It's not enough for the CCP to kill its victims. It then has to butcher them and sell their body parts.

YNTA today 9AM to 12PM ET: Fauci hearing fallout with @StevenWMosher Mayorkas snubs Becerra + China gun parts in US mail with @Anna_Giaritelli House GOP fraud hunt with @lauren_greennn Brooklyn antisemitic attack with @Rabbi_Barclay Trump China rare earths with @AFPhq ──────────────── Full lineup: 9:06 Jake on the Fauci hearing 9:20 Community Bank Delaware 9:35 Monologue: Totally Oblivious 9:45 @Anna_Giaritelli, @dcexaminer, on Mayorkas and China gun parts in US mail 10:08 Lauren Green @lauren_greennn, @dcexaminer, on the House Oversight fraud task force 10:33 Homeira Hesami @HomeiraHesami on Iran executions and Pope Leo's Iran ambassador honor 10:50 James Morrone, @AFPhq, on Trump in China and rare earth minerals 11:06 @Rabbi_Barclay on Brooklyn antisemitism and the fake suicide vest at Monday's NYC protest 11:33 @StevenWMosher, Population Research Institute, on the Fauci hearing and China's one child boomerang 11:50 Sean Stockell on the new Bango survey: more ads for cheaper streaming 11:57 Salute the Troops WGMD and WUSX are the only stations in the country running the Digital Interactive Audience Lounge (DIAL). Your questions and votes direct the show in real time. Listen, vote, debate: RealNewsTalk.com

While bragging about its investments in renewable energy, China has quietly constructed more coal-fired power plants than the rest of the world combined. The blockade of the Strait of Hormuz is a major national security concern for Beijing. You can't run ships, planes and tanks on batteries and solar panels. Or coal, for that matter.

Why Xi needs a deal more than Trump. Almost ten years ago when the two leaders met, China held all the cards. But now America is negotiating from a position of strength. My latest in the Times of London. thetimes.com/us/news-today/…