About this episode

Gordon Chang joins Joe Pags to discuss Xi Jinping's verbal attack on Trump and the implications of Chinese nationals in America.

Xi Jinping didn't just shake Trump's hand in Beijing — he fired a deliberate verbal attack at the President of the United States while cameras rolled. Gordon Chang, author of Plan Red and America's foremost China expert, joins Joe Pags to decode the two specific phrases Xi used that were designed to humiliate Trump on the world stage — and why Chang believes Xi just made the biggest miscalculation of his political life. Plus — the story the mainstream media won't touch: 500,000 Chinese nationals currently inside America. Military-aged men crossing the border, training on U.S. soil, and according to Chang, ready to kill Americans in large numbers. Is this espionage? Infiltration? Or something even more dangerous? Chang and Joe break it all down — China's 100-year plan, the Africa land grab, TikTok surveillance, and why Trump's moves in the Gulf, Panama, and Syria are quietly destroying China's global strategy. Topics covered: Xi's "New Era" and "Thucydides Trap" — what those phrases really mean How Trump fired back and why Chang calls it Nobel Prize-worthy Chinese students, spies, and "hundreds of Swalwells" inside Washington TikTok's algorithm…

People in this episode

Host: Joe Pags

Guest: Gordon Chang

Topics covered

• China-U.S. relations
• Xi Jinping's political strategy
• Trump's foreign policy
• Espionage and infiltration
• TikTok surveillance
• Chinese nationals in America
• Global strategy of China

Keywords

• Xi Jinping
• Donald Trump
• Gordon Chang
• espionage
• TikTok
• China
• U.S. relations
• Plan Red
• Thucydides Trap
• Chinese nationals

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: TikTok, China, America

Books & works: Plan Red

Places: Beijing, United States, Africa, Gulf, Panama, Syria

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