The Future of US China Relations Has Changed Forever (LIVE)

All right, everybody. Welcome to today's live stream. My name is Cyrus Jansen. It has been a while since we have had a live stream here on YouTube, but I want to welcome you all to today's show. And we have so many important things that we want to discuss. And I really want you guys to be active in the comment section. Let's um ask some questions. Let's have a good dialogue. We might even have a special guest coming on later on if we can um get Alex from Reporter by Media in the channel.

But guys, I just wanted to uh do a live stream because over the past few weeks, we've seen some amazing developments happen in the United States China relationship. And you know, we're approaching the end of 2025. And I think it's really important to start to look back at, you know, how this USChina relationship has developed under Trump 2.0 know and what the future really means like what really really means for the future because we're heading into a new year and we've really seen this kind of roller coaster wave between the United States and China.

Um, obviously there was a lot of anticipation, you know, with the the second election of Donald Trump here in the United States and you know what we've seen is we've seen a tremendous amount of geopolitical changes happening around the world and I have to be honest as a US citizen I I do find this very concerning for the United States because there is no doubt about this that the 2025 has been an absolute breakthrough year of success for China. And I'm actually in the process of making a a very long video and it's going to be documenting the top 10 stories that really define China in 2025. My team and I are currently working on that video. That's going to be the last video that we publish here in 2025 as we head into the new year.

But you know you know if we go back and we look at this year uh you know obviously like for example the number one story that happened in early January was deepseek AI coming out and really showing to the world that Chinese engineers are able to do something that many westerners predicted would be impossible and that is to be able to create something that is compatible with the best technology in America. Obviously, we all know that Deepseek AI was able to outperform OpenAI. And what's incredible is when you actually look back and you look at Sam Altman, for example, he had an amazing speech where uh he was challenged by an Indian entrepreneur. An Indian entrepreneur said, Sam, what would you say to a company that was just starting out? You know, let's say they don't have hundreds of millions of dollars to build, you know, something like an open AI. Let's just say they have, you know,5 or ten million dollars to to work with. You know, can they actually compete with you? Could they actually build something? And Sam Alman, you know, very arrogantly just said, "You've got no chance. There's and I'm going to tell you honestly, you shouldn't even try because there's no way that you could compete with us. We're number one. We're the best." And about a month after he gave that speech, all of a sudden, China launches Deep Seek AI, which then goes ahead and beats OpenAI.

And there's actually a very big problem that's brewing in the United States. I think many of you already know this is the simple fact that, you know, the United States economy is not in a t in a very strong position right now. We hear this every single day in Western media that oh, you know, China's economy is collapsing, there's deflation, the real estate market is correcting, you know, it's all doom and gloom in China. Um, however, I just want to kind of give some perspective from the other side of this because in the United States, I would not say that the US economy is very strong right now. What we see is we see incredible inflation under Donald Trump. We see an economy that really is shifting to just everything is dealing with AI. And so we have what we call a circular economy in the United States where, you know, for example, Open AAI is spending hundreds of billions of dollars. They're buying Nvidia chips who then sell stuff to Google and Amazon. and you have this circular economy because basically everybody's passing this AI money back and forth. So obviously the GDP numbers are strong and and and you can say that all right these these companies are doing great great uh revenue but at the end of the day there's not a lot of strong fundamentals here and as as many of you I think have heard there's certainly a fears of an AI bubble forming in the United States and I think that honestly China is in a really strong position moving forward and you know what we what we're really going to talk about today is a lot of things you know I want to talk about the United States China chip war I want to talk about the future of USChina relations. I also have some personal stories that I've heard from some very interesting people over the last couple of weeks that I want to share with you as we get into today's live stream.

But kind of to start, you know, the main topic that we, you know, we've really seen recently in the last few weeks. I'm going to bring up a graphic here and this is United States is now going to allow Nvidia H200 chip shipments to China. Okay, this is a new announcement that came in about a week ago and this is actually a really big deal for the United States and I'm going to kind of break this down because you know over the last 12 months what we've seen is we've seen you know it's difficult because you've seen kind of two things from the United States. Number one, you've seen a message that we need to decouple from China. We cannot rely on China. But all of a sudden, and I've highlighted this over many videos this year, Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, which by far is the biggest company in the world, you know, market cap of around I think it's come down now, but it did surpass $4 trillion. That stock has started to decline. You know, Nvidia stock, it's an interesting one, right? It was it it is I think it doubled since the March lows. Now the March lows was certainly during uh you know Trump or sorry I think it would be April lows uh would be you know during Trump when he announced the liberation day tariffs and you saw the United States economy start to tank. you saw the stock market completely uh get destroyed by Trump's decision because this is something I always want to make sure people understand is that there is a very big difference between what our politicians say in the United States and what actual businessmen and women are actually doing in the real world. I'm going to say that again because I think it's so important. There's a huge difference between what the United States politicians say and what actual business leaders are doing. And this is the, you know, kind of the propaganda that we really need to go through in the United States because unfortunately we do have a tremendous amount of propaganda.

I'm going to I'm going to show you for example a tweet that u you know got some coverage here and you know this is a a guy by the name of Stephen Mosher. And you know Stephen actually published you know surprising here's a big surprise. He published a very anti-China book basically painting China as this huge enemy of the world. And you can see his tweet and I actually responded to Stephen here. I called him out on this tweet and he says, "The CCP has hated America from its inception. It's waging a war against the US across every domain except the kinetic. It's our primary even existential challenge in concert with our allies and it must be met headon." Now, I called this tweet out because what you have to remember again is you have you have these so-called China experts, someone like Stephen who publishes a book. And what he says is he says that China wants to be the global hedgemen. China wants to dominate the world. They want to take over the United States and they will not stop until they rule the world. And the systematic thing is here this is this is categorically false because we've seen the evidence from China that China has never had an intention to even replace the United States. Right? What China does and what they do very good is they are systematic in their five-year plans. Okay. We've now entered into which I believe is the 15th five-year plan. And and this is what I think is one of the most amazing accomplishments from the Chinese government is that they are able to really plan for the future. And you know for what's really interesting here guys is that you know the end of 2025 this is the end of this plan this the 14th year plan. And this is actually the end of made in China 2025. And so this all kind of relates back to the chip war. And you know it's all one big story. Hence why I really want to do this live stream for us today.

And so if we go back to 2015 and that's when Xi Jinping announced that we have a new initiative called China made in 2025. All right. And what this what this initiative is going to do is it is going to shift us from being this manufacturer of low-end consumer goods. And this is something that China, you know, really dominated for the better part of three decades. And it was something, you know, I'm going to just give you an example. For example, if I have this notebook, okay, obviously very cheap to produce. It's simply paper with a nice little leatherbound, you know, cover on it. Obviously, China can make this, you know, very high quality, but they can make it for a very, very cheap price. And this is what, you know, American consumers, European, sorry, I should say, American manufacturers, European manufacturers, they said, you know, we want to be able to sell this notebook at a bookstore in America for $19.99, maybe even $24.99 because the prices here are so ridiculous. But obviously, you're going to be able to make this in China for what, 50 cents, 75 cents. It's not going to cost you a lot, especially if you're ordering in a large amount of quantity. So this is what China was able to do is if you had a product that you wanted to do whether it's a notebook maybe a maybe you know like this the Yeti you know this kind of coffee cup you know this kind of stuff is made very very cheaply very affordable in China so China for the better part of three decades really dominated this side of manufacturing but in 2015 Xi Jinping came out and said you know what we want to shift into something different we want to shift into high-end manufacturing and of course you You know, the best example I can give would be your iPhone. You know, this is the it's actually pretty old. It's a few years old, but this is obviously iPhone made in China. And you know, again, this is a thing that I really try to harp on a lot is again, when you look at the business leaders and the decisions that they're making, it's very, very different from the United States politicians. Tim Cook, one of the best clips that I've ever seen from Apple CEO, he said, "A lot of people think that we manufacture in China because it's cheap." Well, I don't know where this cheap narrative has come in because over the last 10 years, manufacturing in China has become more expensive. And this is again a systematic change that we've seen from the Chinese government. We've seen China for example, they have increased wages consecutively. Every single year in China, wages are going up. You've got better health care benefits. You've got uh social security. You've got insurance. It's not this cheap place to manufacture. But what where the competitive advantage is is that you cannot find the high-end engineers and the and the tooling engineers that can actually manufacture this type of quality. And this is the whole thing from China 2025 is over the last 10 years we've seen China now shift into becoming the deacto place for getting the most advanced products in the world made. And again, this is why Apple has been so successful. I' I've said this, you know, Apple probably the number one company in the world that has made the most millionaires, you know, from stock investing. You know, if you've been investing in Apple stock um over the years, I mean, there's so many people that have made, you know, a ton of money investing in Apple. But the secret sauce to Apple has always been China. It has always been China. And they've kind of double dipped because number one, they're able to manufacture their products in China for a very competitive price. But the other thing is is that China's economy has been growing so steadily over the past 20 years that the middle class has risen to a point where they have become an amazing consumer. And that's of course as we know Apple sales have have been you know skyrocketed in in in China over the past 15 years. You know I I remember living and working in China when the iPhone initially launched and it was a huge event in China. Everybody wanted an iPhone. I remember when that came out that was kind of the de facto gift when you were doing a business deal. You know, it was like, "Here, I've got you an iPhone." I remember back then it was I think they had two colors. They had like a silver one and a gold one. And I had a lot of clients that were like, you know, we don't know uh which one you like, so we're going to get you both. We're get you a silver one and a gold one. It kind of became the de facto gift in China at that time. And and so again, you know, this is what we've seen in the business world is why these countries are moving towards China, you know, towards China.

But what's interesting, and this is what's caused a lot of concern in the West, is that China has said, you know what, we're not going to just be this manufacturer for the low-end stuff. Something like a notebook like this. Obviously, you can find hundreds of factories in China that can make you this exact same notebook at a very high quality. But what we want to do is we want to start to push the needle. We want to actually start to manufacture. And we're going to have our own brands. And the one thing that I've covered a lot on this YouTube channel this year is the rise of Chinese EVs. And this is the best example that we've seen. Obviously, a lot of a lot of auto parts are made in China. Okay? So, even you look at like Ford, GM, you certainly look at like Volkswagen, uh you look at Porsche, Audi, you know, the China market has been absolutely vital to them. Now, this is what's starting to to shift is we've seen these western auto companies are in a very very difficult position. And I'm not sure if you guys have heard this story. Um, in the last week, uh, Volkswagen has now actually shut down its one of its main production hubs in Germany and is actually moving its innovation center from Germany to HF, China. And this is a massive story because what it means for the first time in, you know, basically nine decades, Volkswagen can now take a a new automobile, take it from concept to full production entirely outside of Germany. And again, what the Chinese or sorry, not what the Chinese, what the Germans have realized is that, you know, their their market is really really struggling right now because the problem with with Folkswagen is is again I'm going to take you back to 2007208 when I first went to China. Folkswagen was the de facto um taxi in China. No matter where you went, you saw Volkswagen taxis everywhere. And for many many years, you know, Mercedes, Audi, Porsche, Volkswagen, their cash cow was China, right? They were able to sell millions and millions of automobiles every single year. There was a tremendous demand from the Chinese market. And actually, at that time, Chinese consumers, they did not want to have a Chinese automobile, right? They had no interest in having a Chinese automobile because it was the symbol of prestige if you could afford a western car. Um I remember being back in that day again this was before the WeChat this is before the digital remn this is before Alip pay back in the day you know 20 years ago everything in China was done by cash so people would come in with a double boat bag full of Chinese remman and they would be paying cash for their Mercedes for their Volkswagen for their Buicks for their GMs and that was a big symbol of you know wealth that was a symbol of you know face like hey look at me I'm able to afford you know this amazing car from the west and It's superior than anything we have in China. Well, over the past, you know, really 5 to 10 years, we've seen a tremendous shift in the consumer. Now, we see Chinese EVs again, not just saying we can manufacture, but we can innovate. And that's the key thing. That's the difference for how China is moving forward. They're not simply a manufacturer anymore. China is now an innovator.

And you know, many of you know that I'm actually based in Las Vegas, Nevada. And the first week of every year of every January is the Consumer Electronic Show here in Las Vegas. This is called CES. It's the largest consumer show in the world. And what's interesting is is that every single year I go to CES and I meet with amazing business leaders. I meet with amazing companies. And what's really interesting is that every single year I've been here, you know, we hear the narrative getting louder and louder that we need to decouple from China. But interesting enough, here's this. Here's the here's what's again actually happening in the real world. Every single year, we see more and more companies are coming from China. So, two years ago, they actually hosted a China night at CES. Now, China night is basically an opening gala dinner and it was basically like a tech event where all of these CEOs from Chinese companies were, you know, giving speeches. They had a tremendous amount of Chinese tech and and China was the only company that had its own dedicated evening to showcasing its talent and showcasing its technology. And I think that really shows the world a very big story because again, you know, we like to hear that, okay, Japan's amazing, Korea is amazing. Again, nothing against those countries, but again, when you look at CES, yes, okay, we've got Samsung, you know, from Korea. Obviously, they're going to be at um you know, CES. You know, we we certainly see Japanese and Korean companies there, but they're not anywhere close to the scale that we see from China. And again, this is something that I really want to harp on and I'm going to be going back to CES and it's in about three weeks time. Uh very excited for that show because again, um we have I've actually had a ton of Chinese companies reach out to me saying, "Yus, we follow you every single year. Would you go to CES? Can you come by our booth? can you showcase our products to the world? You know, we want to want to make sure that people see this. And so, I'm actually going to be meeting with an innovation hub. There's actually an innovation hub that's based in Shenzhen. And what they do is they're they're extremely successful. They're basically a a venture capitalist fund that really funds a lot of new entrepreneurs in China. So every year they bring between 40 to 50 companies that are, you know, at least um I think it's at least a billion dollars in in um I think they're unicorns, right? So they're basically a billion dollars in worth and they come into the United States and they really help them, you know, be able to be that bridge in order to start selling their products around the world. You'll see many of these companies are already have big presence on Amazon and many Western platforms.

And so again, this is something that I really want people to understand is that when you remove yourself from the Western media bubble, again, I'm going to break back this tweet because you have a guy like Stephen who, you know, let's call him out. At the end of the day, what is Stephen trying to do? Stephen is trying to sell books. Okay, that is his primary mission. He's trying to sell books and he's trying to say, look, China is trying to take over the world and it's an existential threat to the United States. That is complete BS and is complete propaganda because the biggest threat to the United States and I've said this many times. I'll say it again. It has always been the United States itself. It has been the the decline of faith in the United States democracy. It's been our President Donald Trump. I think many of you know I'm not a huge fan of Donald Trump. But in fairness, I'm not a huge fan of the Republicans. I'm not a fan of the Democrats. I think the United States political system is completely corrupt. I would argue that it's the most corrupt political system in the entire world. And the most important thing is that the United States political system does not serve the interest of United States citizens. Again, I've been living in America for, you know, obviously the majority of my life. I grew up here in the United States. I lived abroad for 15 years. I've come back to the United States. And what's interesting here is you will never find a a US citizen that is actually happy with the with the government. Um, I I can I can I can go anywhere and it doesn't matter if if you're talking to Republicans or Democrats. If I ask two simple questions, do you believe that the United States government serves the interests of its citizens? I cannot find a single person that would say yes to that question. If I would say, you know, do you believe that um, you know, do you trust the US government? And again, it's bipartisan. Whether you're Republican or Democrat, you're not going to find somebody that is going to agree with that and say, you know, yes, I believe that US politicians have my best interest at heart. Yes, I believe that the United States government is serving me. And so again, this is something that I really want people to understand because again, you know, it's a stark contrast from when you go to China and you start seeing a government that actually does systematic things that are improving their citizens lives. And again, you know, all you need to do is go to China and you need to see, you know, you know, how life in China continues to evolve. Every year that I go back, many of you know that I go back every summer for a summer holiday with my family. We based in Guangjo and again I'm on the ground in China meeting with business leaders, meeting with, you know, with manufacturers, touring factories and it's an opportunity for me to reconnect with China and really show you guys what's happening on the ground in China. And again, it's the same thing. You know, we see every year China's getting more convenient, more streamlined, more technology, and you're seeing a quality of life in China that continues to evolve and continues to get better. And unfortunately in the United States, we have a a president and we have a government and it's not really I'm not calling out Donald Trump specifically, but it is actually a United States political system that honestly is just really all about war, right? You know, we see that we love to start wars around the world. We've seen this tremendous war in Ukraine that we've sent, you know, that has been completely that should have been completely avoidable with correct foreign policy, with a better diplomatic approach. Obviously, that did not pan out. You know, we've seen rising tensions. Obviously, the next conflict is is starting, which is going to be uh you know, with Venezuela. Uh, I do have an interesting clip that I'm going to show you, but just to kind of show you guys a little bit about the propaganda. Just take a look at this 30 secondond advert, you know, that would that is showing. This is kind of the propaganda that we're taught here in the United States. Just look at this 30 secondond ad um about Ukraine.

>> When America arms Ukraine, we get a lot for a little. Putin is an enemy of America. We've used [music] 5% of our defense budget to arm Ukraine, and with it, they've destroyed 50% of Putin's army. We've done all this by sending weapons from storage, [music] not our troops. The more Ukraine weakens Russia, the more it also weakens Russia's closest ally, China. America needs to stand [music] strong against our enemies. That's why Republicans in Congress must continue to support Ukraine. [music] >>

So again, you know, very very, you know, very good propaganda from the United States. And honestly, I think that's the one thing that we really lead. You know, a lot of people like to say that China has so much propaganda. I said, you know, China's propaganda not at a good level to be honest. They're just not as effective because it's an amazing thing uh in America how we how we look at this. And again, you can kind of see this angle, right? The more that we weaken Russia, the more that we are going to weaken China in response. And let's be honest, weakening Russia has no real effect on China. Uh you know, China continues to trade with Russia. actually um and and again both of these countries are doing business completely circumnavigating the United States dollar you know 99% of the transactions between Russia and and China are now done in remma B they're now done in local currency and you know this is uh this is an amazing thing because you know what when we're looking at um you know the next one and I I have again I have an interesting clip here um we're going to talk about um you know the next conflict this is an interesting one you guys are going to find look at this this is from a TV show in America and already preparing United States citizens for the next

>> What would you assume is the most major threat on the world stage? >> Definitely Russia. >> Definitely Russia. Who else? >> China. >> Stop yelling at me, but China is a good answer. Venezuela. Anybody? Everybody's cool with Venezuela. No threat. Okay. Which one of these places can claim to have the largest oil deposit on the planet? More than Saudi? More than Iran? Wow. Okay. What about things like gold? More than all the mines in Africa combined? Venezuela is arguably the single greatest resource of oil and minerals on the planet. So why is this country in the midst of one of the greatest humanitarian crises in modern history? On the news, they'll call it a [music] crisis, but on the world stage, they'll call it a failed state. Other examples of a failed state in recent history are Yemen, Iraq, and Syria. [music] And if that's not bad enough news for you, well, Venezuela is also the only one of these places within 30 minute range from the US [music] of nextgen nuclear missiles. You will not hear about any of this on the news because the biggest players on the world's stage [music] do not want you to. Russia, China can never be the most major threat until countries like Venezuela leave the [music] door open to our very own backyard. Now, that's an amazing clip.

And what's interesting about this, this is from a TV show called Jack Ryan. Actually, the actor, uh, John Krinski, amazing actor. I really like his work. And actually, Jack Ryan is a very, very popular TV show. It's a very good show. Um, you know, his acting is fantastic. But the thing is is you can kind of see, you know, how American propaganda works. And it goes really, you know, really, you know, this is Hollywood working, you know, handinhand with the State Department, really trying to push these narratives because all of a sudden, you know, you're an American watching your, you know, TV show that you like to log in and watch and all of a sudden now you're thinking, "Wow, Venezuela is going to drop nuclear bombs on the United States. This is so dangerous. You know, we we we have to stop. This is an existential threat, you know, to the United States." So, again, it starts with this kind of propaganda. You know, I go back to one of the most famous movies in American history, uh, you know, certainly in modern history would be Top Gun. You know, this is arguably Tom Cruz's most famous movie. And you know what's interesting? If you actually watch that movie, there's not actual plot in that movie. Basically, it's it's it's actually a terrible movie in the sense of the the plot of the movie. You basically have guys, you know, like Tom Cruz, they're going around in these fighter jets and all of a sudden out of nowhere, you see two Russian planes are coming in and it's like, "Oh my gosh, the Russians are here. We've got to take him down. Tom Cruz shoots down the Russian uh you know, firefighters, the fighter jet pilots. And again, you know, why is Russian fighters there? You know, do they just randomly come to the United States and they're trying to attack? But all of a sudden, Tom Cruz, you know, he shoots down the Russians. Russia, if you look back in American cinematic history, Russia has always been, you know, portrayed as the villain, as the enemy. And you know that's why a lot of Americans have a very negative connotation, a very negative viewpoint towards Russia. And again, this is all influence from Hollywood. This is all influence from our media. Um, you know, it's it's interesting when you say that Putin, you know, has, you know, has has always been an enemy of the United States. Actually, you know, again, we've documented this in many videos that we've made over the last, you know, year or so is that the first thing when the when the Soviet Union collapsed, what was the first thing that Putin asked? you know, the Putin asked that we would like to be included in NATO. You know, obviously NATO was formed, you know, to, you know, against to to combat the rise of the Soviet Union. Well, if the Soviet Union is disbanded and Russia's now, you know, just kind of left there, well, why don't we go ahead and join NATO, right? Why don't we look for peace? Well, what happened is is the United States government said, "Absolutely not. You cannot join NATO. You are an outsider. We do not want you in here. So, please go away." Now the next step was okay Putin came back to the drawing board and he said all right well if we can't be a NATO how about we join the European Union you know we would like to form a close relationship with Europe obviously we share a border with Europe uh the geographically we're not going to change and this is something that we've said for many many years now is that Europe has to figure out a game plan for how to deal with Russia because Russia's not going anywhere. Russia will continue to be there, but you know, we've seen the Europeans, you know, continually preach that no, you know, Russia's the enemy. You know, we must stop. And again, this kind of goes full circle. Why am I going on this tangent? Because it goes full circle because we're now talking about Germany, which is in a very, very difficult position. You know, their markets in China have collapsed. Why? Because of Chinese innovation. You know, Chinese consumers are not buying the German automobiles. We've seen the United States systematically destroy Streamyard, which was uh the um is it Streamyard? No, Streamyard is my my streaming platform. It's the um the gas lines, you know. I think you guys know what I'm talking about. Um basically the um the streamline gas the gas lines that were supplying Germany with cheap gas from Russia. That was really the whole um that was the secret sauce to Germany's success was being able to get cheap natural gas from Russia in order to power their factories. Well, now that's been cut off. And and what we're seeing is is that we're seeing even the United States is really abandoning Europe as a close ally. You know, we're seeing that the United States and Donald Trump is shifting away from this close relationship that Europe and America has had. And again, Europe is in a very difficult position because again, they they don't have that close relationship with China anymore. China's not buying their goods anymore. They're at battle with Russia and the United States is dumping them as an ally. So, where do where does that leave Europe? I think Europe, as we know, is as as a very very difficult pathway moving forward. And, you know, I think there's just oh man, there's just so many things that we need to get into, you know, in this live stream.

So, you know, it's a it's always um Yeah, and this is a good comment here. I'm just going to check the comments here where he says, "Replacing cheap Russian gas with expensive US LNG." And that was another major story line where we where we saw Europeans really call out the Americans saying, "Look, you know, you you guys are claiming to be our allies." Meanwhile, you know, you bombed the streamline, you know, pipelines, you know, so we we know that the pipes were destroyed by the Americans. The legendary reporter Seymour Hirs broke this down in an absolute viral article where he, you know, f, you know, basically told this story of and broke the news that it was the United States that actually broke those gas lines. And what we've seen, unfortunately, is we've seen, again, I think Henry Kissinger said it best, is that the United States does not have friends. It only has interest. And this is what we've always seen with the United States government. We've always seen that it's America first. And we've even seen, you know, the secretary of state, I remember Michael Pompeo, who, you know, many of us know is, you know, has arguably the worst secretary of state in the United States history. You know, he has, you know, basically gone out and said America first should be everybody's foreign policy, right? We you should be always putting America first. Why? Because we're the global hedgeiment. We're the best. We should be the leader of the world. So again, when you look at who is the true hedgeimon in the world, it's always been the United States. And the United States is desperate to hang on and cling on to that. We don't see China, you know, campaigning and saying that we want to be number one in the world. But we do do naturally see that the Chinese economy continues to grow. You know, it only makes sense, right? China has 1.4 billion people. The United States has roughly 370 million people. China is in a position where it's obviously much larger and its economy continues to grow and it's going to continue to innovate and it's going to continue to drive. And we see this in the future and this is what we're going to be talking about is this new um you know the new game plan which is going to be the 15-year plan and obviously a big one is going to be a artificial intelligence as China continues to evolve that.

Now earlier I shared this graphic that said you know the United States is going to allow Nvidia H200 chip shipments to China. And I just want to briefly touch on this because this has been a a huge uh story over the last two weeks here in the United States because we have a lot of people that are saying they're basically warning Donald Trump saying look you cannot continue to sell to China. They are our enemy. And again, this is something that I've I've talked about as we look at Jensen Hong. We look at Jensen Hang and the the CEO of Nvidia. Over the last 12 months, he has gone to China numerous times. I'm going to say at least half a dozen times where he's flown to Beijing, he's met with Chinese leaders. And what Jensen Wong has always said is his vision is that America should lead the AI industry. And if America is going to lead the AI industry, Nvidia chips and Nvidia, I should say, Nvidia GPUs should be the one that's driving that innovation. And we should be dominating on the world stage. But Jensen Wong over the last couple of months has been very very clear and very adamant that the United States with its failed policy of trying to contain China and trying to sanction China is actually giving China the opportunity to win the AI race. Now this is the story that is that is actually really really big because all of a sudden China turns away from Nvidia H200 despite the UX export approval. Right there front and center is Jensen Hong who of course his company uh Nvidia is at the center of this entire you know story that we continue to follow. But this is something that is really really big and I'm going to highlight something that not many people in the west talked about. It was actually my last video that we published about 10 days ago on the YouTube channel and this was a company called More Threads. Now this is a company that just went IPO in China. This is a story that you don't hear about in Western media, but basically I'm going to tell you guys this and you can watch the full video if you go back to my most recent uploads um and you can look at that story. But basically, there was an amazing chip company called More Threads. It went IPO in China about two weeks ago. And what was incredible about this was the amount of bullish sentiment from investors in China. What we saw is that this initial IPO was oversubscribed by over 4,126 times. What that means is that the bids coming in to get an action of this IPO exceeded $4.5 trillion and which was actually larger than the entire market cap of Nvidia. So we basically saw a tremendous amount of demand from Chinese investors, from Chinese consumers wanting to get a piece of this action because they realized that again when you're looking at the Chinese economy, you're looking at what sectors are performing really well, what sectors are going to dominate the future. Obviously, anything related to AI is going to be, you know, front and center, a systematic priority for the Chinese government and for the Chinese economy. And so here's the interesting story and this is what China does, you know, really good. The CEO of More Threads is a man by the name of James Jang. Now James actually worked for Nvidia for 14 years in China. Okay, so he worked for Nvidia. He knows Nvidia inside and out. He was the main man for Nvidia on the ground in China for many, many years. And this is something that Jensen Huang was really talking about when he said that China is a tremendous opportunity for the United States. And this is why Jensen Wong has been campaigning to sell microchips to China because the the microchip industry GPUs AI this is a 50 you know billion dollar industry. So if you look at you know Nvidia obviously they want to get a piece of that action right? They want to sell their chips to China because it, as you know, any microchip company spends tens of billions of dollars every single year on R&D and that is a tremendous expense that they have to spend because that's what it takes to be able to to drive innovation in this sector. Now, all of a sudden, you saw Jensen Huang, he he came on during an interview and he said, "Look, we've seen our market share in China go from 95% down to zero." All right, 95% down to zero. And this was a huge concern for Jensen Wong because again as a publicly traded company, you know, his mission is to drive shareholder value. It is Jensen Hong's mission to, you know, make sure that Nvidia continues to sell and he wants to be able to sell those GPUs to China. Now again, what we hear in the west and the counterpoint to this is that well, we can't sell microchips to China because it's going to empower their military and one day thei Chinese military is going to strike America. is going to be involved in a conflict potentially over Taiwan and there's going to be a very very large problem for America in the future. Again, we don't see the United States or sorry, I would just let me say that we don't see China wanting to threaten the United States in any way. You know, China is not going to bomb America. It is not going to invade America. It is not going to be involved in a hot war with America. This is something that China certainly does not want for its future. Um but again when we look at the propaganda that we hear coming from the United States, we always hear that look at China's military, look at how it's, you know, ramping up. It now has a tremendous navy. It has a tremendous air force. It's building air force carriers. And you know, this is why China is a threat. Well, again, if we simply look at this, this is we just have to be a little bit logical and have a little bit of common sense. any rising superpower in the world, if we look back at world history, any superpower in the world, you know, as they're developing, the first thing that they develop is their military. I mean, look at the United States, right? We've got one of the most impressive militaries in the world, we always have. It's been a it's been a backbone of the United of the United States country. And this is something that, you know, you want to do. You want to make sure that you have a military mainly for protection. And if you look at, you know, we look at the United States uh military bases that are spread throughout Asia, realistically, China is surrounded by US military bases, right? We know that in in for example, in just Japan and Korea alone, there's over 70 United States military bases. Uh this has become a major concern. If we look at um Okinawa, Okinawa, Japan, obviously a very very large US military presence for many many decades. We now see that there is actually a lot of resentment towards American soldiers, a lot of resentment towards the US military bases being there. Actually, a lot of Okanowan citizens are protesting, asking the United States government to leave. Of course, you know, Japan is very very loyal to the United States and they certainly are never going to push back on the United States. never going to do anything. I remember traveling to Korea in 2008 and it was very interesting at the time. Um I actually when I traveled there I was a I was a much younger man than I am now but I had actually just shaved my head. So I just shaved my head um you know with a buzzcut and I remember going to Korean customs. I was going in with my US passport and I was I I got stopped and they actually pulled me aside and they said are you US military? And I said no I'm not. And they said why do you have a haircut like this? And I'm like, "Oh, I've just, you know, I just shave my head." But obviously, you know, I'm a tall guy. Um, and you know, I I look like a soldier. And and I had come to find out that actually in many, you know, Korean bars and and even like in the kind of the party district there in Korea, they actually had signs out there, you know, US soldiers not welcome. You you're a US citizen, not welcome. And that was the first time I'd ever seen that in my life that, you know, being a US citizen, I was not welcome in a place. And it was because of the behavior of the US soldiers and the US military there in Soul Korea, you know, and how they acted. You know, they got into a lot of bar fights. They started a lot of trouble. And so this was a very interesting thing for me to personally observe uh in my life. But again, you know, we see, you know, this tremendous amount of military power uh in the United States. We certainly see tensions ramping up. You know, obviously the big question in Asia, it's always over Taiwan. It's always this potential that, you know, we're going to see is there going to be a military threat? Is there going to see a military, you know, conflict between the United States and China over Taiwan? No, we could probably do an entire live stream on that. I've shared my points many many times where I I do not think that um I I do not feel that China is going to invade Taiwan. We made many videos about this. Uh we can talk about that. Um but the key thing here guys is

That we are seeing this amazing relationship between the United States and China. And again, I, I kind of want to go, uh, back to the beginning and basically kind of recap this year very briefly because we've seen these highs and lows. And I think at the end of 2025, if all of us are being very objective, I think what we're going to look at is we're going to basically see that Donald Trump has given China a tremendous amount of concessions and he's basically backtracked from everything he talked about in 2025.

And so if we go back to the beginning of the year, again, I highlighted this with the Deepseek moment, right? We saw Deepseek come out and that really was an absolute, I mean, that's the biggest story of 2025, um, is that China came out and basically proved to the world that we, that China was able to innovate at a level that is compatible with the United States. But here's the caveat. They're able to do it at a much cheaper price point and just as effective.

And what's interesting with that story is if you go back and you start looking at the industry observers, we start looking at people that were in artificial intelligence. We saw a lot of tech consumers. We saw a lot of tech insiders. Basically, people that don't do any content on China, okay? They came out and said, "Wow, what China has done is truly innovative." Because here's the key thing. China has done it as open source. Now, open source. And I, this is kind of funny because a lot of people don't actually know what that means. It's basically open source means that that it's it's kind of open for the world and that you can program that. So, for example, a lot of people say, "Hey, Deepseek's not that good because, you know, I put in there Tiananmen Square and I wasn't able to find that information." Well, open source means that you can basically train that model to to to adapt to how you want to use it. And so you can teach it different code. You can teach it how to innovate it.

The United States actually does not do open source. For example, OpenAI is not open source, it's closed. And the reason that that is is because OpenAI, they want to have a model where they charge a tremendous amount of money and they want to they want to make money, right? And and this is where this is where, you know, for example, ChatGPT and we look at, you know, for example, OpenAI, you know, they have committed to, they said that they in the next 10 years are going to spend $1.4 trillion dollars building these AI data centers and building and investing in AI. We've got to be very honest, folks. There's no way that a company can spend $1.4 trillion dollars and become profitable. It's impossible. There's no way that it's going to happen.

And actually, there is an amazing storyline here. When we look at, um, you know, the difference between the United States and China where China holds the competitive advantage is not actually in the manufacturing of AI, you know, the GPUs or the innovation. The simple thing, the most basic thing that you need for artificial intelligence is what? Electricity. That's the most important thing. And where China is really going to position itself in a in a symbol of strength for the future, is that China is generating a tremendous amount of electricity for the future, much, much more than the United States.

I actually have a graph that I've shared in many videos. I don't have it here with me right now in this live stream, but what's what's really incredible is that we see that China's electricity, um, production over the last 20 years has basically been going up at a very, very increased rate. Why is that? Well, because of China's investment in renewable energy and this again is a systematic difference between the United States. We see Donald Trump, he has he has said that renewable energy is garbage. He has made fun of China for developing wind turbines. He is not bullish on hydroelectric power. He is not bullish on solar power. Basically, Donald Trump is putting the United States in a position where he is doubling down on fossil fuels. He believes that fossil fuels will continue to be the future.

Meanwhile, we see China take the complete opposite approach. We see China now dominate the solar industry. Over 90% of solar panels in the world are produced in China, obviously being produced in China. China has that technology and they have built a tremendous amount of solar farms across the country that are creating a tremendous amount of electricity. Earlier this year, we seen China break ground on what is going to be the largest hydroelectric dam in the entire world. They're actually building that in Tibet in a very, very difficult terrain. Right. It's it's actually probably the most difficult terrain in the world to build a dam. But if there's one thing that China can do, it's certainly build infrastructure.

We saw earlier this year where China debuted, um, the largest bridge in the entire world. I believe that was in the Guizhou province and the bridge is absolutely phenomenal, right? And it's just incredible the technology behind that. We made a full video on that a couple couple videos ago where we highlighted this incredible dam. Uh, I'm sorry. We actually, we did make a video on the dam and and this project that's going to really define China, but we also made a video on this bridge and how this was just a a key symbol of innovation coming from China.

Here's the most amazing thing. The bridge cost $300 million to produce and China was able to build this in less than four years. I don't know if you guys remember the story that happened earlier this year, but this was basically a, uh, there was a bridge in Baltimore that actually collapsed. And it collapsed when a large boat, uh, ran into the side of the bridge. It systematically caused the entire bridge to collapse. And now that bridge is saying that it's going to be rebuilt for the tune of $1.2 billion. Well, you've got to remember the foundation of the bridge, for example, these pylons that are going in deep into the water, you know, all of the infrastructure that is the support system for that bridge, that's largely still, um, intact, right? You can reuse that. You basically need to build a bridge above the water. So that's the part that needs to be rebuilt. The stuff under the water still stays the same. You actually have basically, you have a head start, right? Half the bridge is already done. All the underwater part is done. But again, there's going to be massive delays. They're already saying that $1.2 billion is not enough. It's now probably going to cost closer to $2 billion. And in addition to that, we're going to need another three, four years to do. Basically, Baltimore is not going to get that bridge built for probably a decade. And it's probably going to cost over $2 billion. I'm sure that when it's all said and done, it's going to be well north of two billion.

And so, you start to see Americans start to question this. How is China able to build a bridge for $300 million? And, um, you know, and be able to do that in less than four years from scratch. And then and then the United States is not able to compete with that. And this is again what we are seeing with, um, you know, with with the difference between the United States and China. And this is now going back to, you know, why US citizens are starting to realize, hey, we're starting to see these videos from China. We've starting to see a tremendous amount of stories from Americans, from Europeans that are going to China and are systematically showing us the difference between China and the United States. And let's be honest, there's no way that you can compare the infrastructure and the technology in China to what we have in the United States.

I saw a tweet that went viral. This was really, really funny. Um, gosh, I wish I would have saved it. I didn't save it. But basically, um, you know, when you go to an airport and you're boarding the sky terminal, you know, basically the bridge, the sky bridge that goes that connects you from the terminal to the actual plane. Well, Kansas City, Missouri in the United States, they're the first city in the United States that now has glass bridges. Okay? And this was a big story in the United States. They're like, "Hey, instead of, you know, going down this bridge that is just all walls, we are now debuting this new technology that is going to be glass. That way our passengers get a chance to look outside and see the sunshine." And and I I kind of thought to myself, I go, "Wow, like basically everybody in Asia, you know, we all have that, right? It's not a China thing. I mean, it's Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, you know, Korea. Basically, everybody has these glass walkways." And so, you know, something as simple as a glass walkway connecting you from the building to the plane that was seen as a big technology breakthrough in the United States. Again, it was a story that just happened last week. But again, this is something so simple, so basic. This has been, you know, this has been in China and and Asia for that matter for 20 years. You know, this is not anything new.

Um, but, uh, it is just so funny how, you know, when you actually go back to the West and we look at, um, you know, I mean, you go to, you know, the airports in the United States. I mean, you go, you know, I flew to LAX a few months ago and it's just, uh, it's a terrible airport. I mean, it's just not a nice place to be. You want to try to avoid LAX at all times because the it's super popular. It's just overcrowded. The technology is not good. It's jammed. It's, uh, it's just, it's just, um, yeah, gosh, it's it's it's just not a place that you'd want to fly into. Um, you know, actually, a lot of people that fly to LA, they try to fly into the local regional airports because it's a lot less traffic and a lot less, um, you know, mafan for the Chinese user out there, you know, a little less troublesome.

So, uh, yeah, I mean, I I like this comment here. Somebody had said here, this is Su Gong, Denise, engineers are better than lawyers, and that is something that we see, you know, again, the difference between the United States and China. When you look at the vast majority of politicians in the United States, I'm talking well over 90% of them, they are lawyers. They do have a law degree. That's their kind of background would be in law, whereas if you look at the Chinese politicians, and this is quite fascinating, is is the difference is is how educated they are, but they're engineers. They have this amazing, uh, you know, technical background and experience. And I think this is something that again, we we really fail to understand in the West.

Um, earlier this year when I was in China, I had the chance to travel to Nanjing and when I went to Nanjing, I actually was attending this, uh, memorial service for the Nanjing Massacre. This is a big story, um, you know, that that I think a lot of people needed to understand. Um, obviously, I think it, I think I believe it was the 80th anniversary of of of the Nanjing Massacre and kind of the war against, um, fascism in in China. This has been kind of a very big thing for for China. But basically, I I attended this event and I was listening to some of these Chinese politicians that were speaking and they had this incredible knowledge of so many things in history. Um, but afterwards, after the event, I I went over and I spoke to a few people and it was incredible because all of them spoke perfect English, right? They addressed, we first of all, we started speaking in Chinese, but then they immediately wanted to switch to English to basically let me know like, hey, we speak perfect English too. And a lot of them were educated in the West. A lot of them had advanced degrees. And I think that's something that you really need to understand with Chinese, even Chinese diplomats, these men are men and women are incredibly smart, incredible backgrounds, again, engineers, multiple degrees, bilingual in many different languages. And, you know, this is exactly, you know, uh, you know, the difference between these politicians, you know, in the United States and China.

Um, you know, Chris here today is saying, don't forget to touch on the homeless. I mean, we we see this, um, you know, um, you know, we've got another comment here. Is it true the Americans are shocked when they enter a Chinese city like Chongqing? I think when you look at, um, you know, I I have a good story to tell you. Actually, I I had a I had a close friend of mine in Vancouver, Canada. He actually owns a golf club brand. So, he actually has his own brand of golf clubs that he sells. He's very successful, very good entrepreneur, but all of his golf clubs are manufactured in China. So, for the first time in five years, he has built this great relationship with manufacturers in China. And for the first time since this company started, he was actually going to China to visit with his manufacturers. And he said, "Look, over the past five years, I've built a very successful business selling golf clubs in North America. All of our golf clubs are made with our partners in China, but amazingly, I've never been to China. All of our communication has been through WeChat and through email, but I'm going to go back to China."

So, he called me and he said, "Cyrus, I know you lived in China a lot. I want to kind of get to I need to understand, you know, it's my first time in China. What do I need to do? What are the cultural customs? I'm meeting with these manufacturers." So, I gave him some really basic advice. Things like, "Hey, you need to meet, you need to make sure that you're going to bring a gift for them, right? You know, when you go out to dinner, they're going to take you to a nice place. You're going to have to drink with these guys, right? They're going to want to drink with you. They're going to want to get to know you." So, I just kind of, you know, basically told him about the culture in China, the business culture.

But he went to China for the better part of one month. He traveled to manufacturers down in Guangzhou, uh, down in the Guangdong area, I should say. He went over to Shanghai. Um, you know, and then he also did a holiday down in Hainan Island and he basically came away and he's like, "Cyrus, I know that you have told me about China for the better part of 10 years. Um, I, you know, I even manufacture my products in China, but nothing can prepare you for actually going and seeing China in the real world and seeing it with my own eyes and experiencing it firsthand." And so he came away with an impression basically just saying, you know, I I've seen the buildings, right? I see the videos. I see I see what China looks like. But it's almost like the Western brain can't really comprehend it until you're on the ground and actually experiencing it one-on-one. And that's really the difference. That's what he was able to to tell me.

So again, I mean, it it's great when we are able to share a YouTube video and say, "Guys, look, here's me on the ground in Chongqing. Here's me on the ground in Shenzhen. Here is me in Shanghai. Here's what I'm doing." It definitely helps. This would be China's soft power, you know, where they're basically able to show you, you know, look at the difference here, right? And that's what he said. He said, "Cyrus, it was amazing. The high-speed trains are incredible. It's something that I wish we had in the West, but we don't. Not only is it incredible, the cleanliness in China is through the roof, right? You I mean, you go to these major Chinese cities and they are so clean. They're spotless. It's incredible. There's no homelessness. There is a society that, um, you know, he said, you know, one of the interesting things he said, you know, what's interesting, Cyrus, is just the society looks a lot healthier than a typical Western society. I mean, there's no, there's this is no secret. Obviously, in the United States, we have a society that is tremendously overweight, obese, suffers from depression. You know, we don't have, you know, if you're walking down the street and you're just looking at a random thousand people in China and a random thousand people in the United States, you generally kind of look at the two and you can just basically see, you know, you don't have that overweight problem. You don't have this, you know, you know, this problem. It's it's actually generally speaking, people in in Asia look a lot more healthier. And obviously, that just goes down to simple things like diet and exercise. Uh, but that was these were the things that he was telling me. This is what he said, Cyrus, this was my impressions in China, uh, when I when I when I was able to first be there.

And I think that's where we've seen, you know, again, this is a big, we're talking about the big stories of China 2025. You know, another big story was Xiaohongshu, which would be Little Red Book. You know, Xiaohongshu when that, you know, basically a lot of Americans started going to that platform because they were frustrated with the TikTok ban. And this is something that again is very interesting. Notice over the last year, guys, how Donald Trump has always come out with these grand statements. We are going to ban TikTok. TikTok must be banned. All of a sudden, here in the United States, we haven't heard a US politician talk about TikTok in months. And of course, you know, Donald Trump keeps giving these deadlines. You know, you have 90 days to to sell to an American company or else, okay, well, then 90 days comes up. Okay, well, we're going to give you a 90-day extension. All right, 90 days comes up. Well, we'll give you another 90-day extension. Now, it comes up again, and it's like, well, okay, let's just not talk about it anymore.

And so you you have you have this amazing conflict that's going on between the United States because basically all you have to do is sit around and wait, right? And that's the key thing to negotiating with Donald Trump. Just sit quiet and wait and you're going to get a better deal. And this is exactly why I see with this with these stories, right? We go back to the story. I've shared this already. US to allow H200 chips to China. Well, guess what? China says we don't actually need these chips anymore, right?

And the reason for that is, and this is what Jensen Huang has been sounding the alarm bells for many, many years now, is that when the United States moved to sanction China and to contain China, and again, this has been well documented. This has been something that the Biden administration, Trump 1.0, Trump 2.0, all three of the past US administrations have said, "Our goal is to stop China's rise. They should not be allowed to develop." And for me, as an American, I just find that a very, very, very ridiculous statement because who are we to say that another independent country is not able to develop, is not able to rise, is not able to improve their economic conditions? I think that that is completely arrogant. I think that it's completely over the top and we have no right to do that because why do we, why should we, the United States, have a right to determine if China can develop and rise? Okay, that's every country. Would we do that to South Korea? Would we do that to Japan or any other country? But no, the the United States systematically said, "We want to contain China's rise."

But here's the problem. When you paint China in the corner and you cut off their access to chips, okay, China was for many, many years was an incredible, an incredible, uh, you know, consumer, basically an incredible partner and customer buying all of these American chips. But all of a sudden, China says, or the United States says, "You're not allowed to buy our chips anymore." Well, what is China going to do? Well, we're going to double down and we're going to innovate our own chips. And again, this goes back to this IPO. I touched on it recently, but we look at Moore Threads. And again, this is what China's done. Moore Threads CEO James Liang. He was Nvidia's main man on the ground in China for over 14 years. But before that, he was with Dell Computers. He was with Intel. He started his career back in the United States in 1995. So here we are, 1995. He began his career in the United States. He's worked for Intel, Dell, Nvidia. We're talking 30 years of experience in this sector. He knows the ins and outs of this very, very well. And now all of a sudden, they're developing their own microchips domestically in China. He launched this company back in 2020. This is not a brand new company, but it's been growing very, very fast. And they're basically able to make the GPUs that are going to be compatible with an Nvidia. That stock was oversubscribed by 4,126 times. That being oversubscribed, that basically meant there was there was people trying to buy that and they pledged money that was, uh, in excess of $4.5 trillion. Now, not everybody got into the IPO. When that stock actually did go IPO and it started listing on the Chinese stock exchange, you basically had, um, it, I think the first day of trading that stock went up 450%. Because of the tremendous demand because we know that China is going to be doubling down and really be investing in this.

Um, one of the newsletters that I subscribe to, they just, I'm going to pull this up in my email. I was just reading about this. Um, where did that go? We go. Let's see. There's a basically a new chip billionaire. So, this is Chen Wei Liang. Tenway. He is a former AMD top executive. Tenway. He's 49 years old. He just became a billionaire through the IPO of his Chinese chip company called MetaX. Just went live in Shanghai. And it follows a similar pattern. Gain experience at a Western tech giant, found a company in China, and benefit massively through Beijing's substitution strategy. And that is exactly what we're seeing in China. We're seeing this substitution strategy where again, in the future, you're going to be seeing a lot more domestic Chinese companies rise.

So, here we are, new billionaire in China, 49 years old, Tenway, his company is MetaX, that was just, uh, reported here. And and the same thing, uh, he was able to work at AMD, another staple in the American, you know, semiconductor world, um, and he was able to recruit a lot of his former executives from that. This is a lot of people are going to be saying that, hey, you know, China's stealing technology, this, they're doing what they want to do, but is what happens is is we see this is this is exactly how all of these companies start, right? You you gain the experience and then you start your own company. That's how innovation happens. That's how industries continue to develop.

Um, People Unite 3605. I thought billionaires are not allowed in China. Actually, interesting enough, there was another report that said that China is basically creating one new billionaire every single day. That was a new report that came out. Um, it was actually, if we look at the, uh, there's a company called Hurun. Hurun, they do an annual richest in China list. Uh, they classify this as the super wealthy in China. I think super wealthy in China, not necessarily a billionaire, but it is, um, it's somebody with a net worth of over a hundred million dollars or more. So that's how that's how they classify their rich list in China. So it's not a billionaire, but you have to have a net worth of at least $100 million. I think at this point, there's close to 1400 people in China that are, um, you know, on that current list. And they said, you know, over the last year, there's been roughly 360 people that are have joined that list, you know, that have now ranked in there. And so, it's not necessarily creating one new billionaire. I should probably rephrase that. That was the headline, but when I actually read the article, that was the actual story is that these new, they're now on this ultra wealthy list, which means again, $100 million net worth. Uh, China does allow billionaires. Uh, it it is it is no different in that regard than the United States.

But here's the difference. The billionaires in the United States can control the system. We know that and we know that very well. We know that because as soon as Donald Trump was elected, you, if you remember who were the billionaires that were on stage, well, obviously we know it was Elon Musk who has, you know, who has used his money and his leverage as the richest man in the world to systematically influence United States elections, to influence the political system in the United States. So we saw Elon Musk, we saw Mark Zuckerberg, we saw Jeff Bezos from Amazon, we saw the CEO of Google. So you basically have these tech bros that are on stage with Donald Trump at his inauguration. And, you know, the combined net worth of these people are, you know, I think well over $2 trillion in net worth. It's just absolutely crazy.

But that's the difference between the United States and China. In China, billionaires cannot influence the party, cannot change the party, they cannot influence the government. Whereas we know in the United States that it's the billionaires who actually control the government, right? And it's actually a pay-for-play system in the United States. If you have enough money, you have enough leverage, you can do anything you want in the United States, including buying elections, buying political influence. And this is basically legalized corruption because what we do is we have lobbyists. And this is why, for example, you are never going to see the gun laws changed in America because the NRA, they pay off a lot of US politicians to make sure that we keep the Second Amendment alive, that we make sure that we keep, um, you know, we we make sure that we keep, uh, you know, these politicians funded and so that the NRA can continue selling firearms. And again, this is exactly how the United States government works. We look at the the Israeli lobby. Look at how much money is involved in, you know, the United States government from Israel and APEC, which is the Israeli lobby. A tremendous amount of conflict of interest there. A tremendous amount of corruption, I would say. And it's, uh, it's it's incredibly sad because again, the United States government does not serve the interests of its people.

And I think we did hear, um, you know, here we go, Jimmy Lai of Apple Daily. Excellent example of our next legal world order. I I sent out a tweet here that was, uh, that did, that did receive a lot of attention here. And I'm going to go ahead and bring this up. And here it is right here. So this is this is my statement on, you know, basically the whole Jimmy Lai thing. You know, we've seen Jimmy Lai convicted, you know, for, uh, you know, certainly colluding with foreign governments and, you know, the United States here. You know, here you go. You know, basically the United States and UK governments are saying, "Hey, this is an innocent man practicing free speech." Well, you know, here's the tweet that I sent out. The US government is condemning China for violation of international law for using water cannons against Filipino fishing boats while simultaneously blowing up Venezuelan fishing boats. Now, blowing up a fishing boat is certainly a violation of international law. The United States cannot do that, but yet nonetheless, we do. And so you have this amazing double, you know, this contrast, this, you know, complete hypocrisy, right? So the US government is condemning China while simultaneously bombing fishing boats. And here's the one from the UK. The UK government is accusing China for freedom of speech violations while simultaneously arresting 9,700 British citizens this past year for speech offenses. Make it make sense.

So this is something that, you know, again, this is no secret here that we've seen this double standard. We see this constant contradiction between these Western governments how they want to accuse China of doing one thing but simultaneously we're doing things that are, you know, just as bad or if not worse. And the thing is is we have records of Jimmy Lai saying, you know, we want you guys to influence us. We need the United States. We need the UK. You guys have to come in here. You have to influence. You have to change things. And again, you know, we saw, you know, his newspaper Apple Daily, you know, continue to print a tremendous amount of propaganda against mainland Chinese. He printed an article calling the Chinese mainlanders is locusts, right? These are locusts. These are basically pests that are coming into Hong Kong. And I mean, so you you see the kind of propaganda and the nonsense that is coming out of Apple Daily. There's an incredible amount of corruption, you know, from Jimmy Lai and his newspaper. And so again, there's no secret. He's obviously colluding with Western governments. There's no secret about that. And so this is not a freedom of speech thing. If you were to be doing that, if I was colluding with China's government to try to, you know, influence America and to try to, uh, basically, you know, overthrow the American government, do you not think that that would be, uh, would I not be punished by the law? Of course I would.

But you know, the one thing that I want people to understand is that the only way forward and this is something that has been the mission of this YouTube channel for as many of you guys have known, we've been doing YouTube for over five years now and it's always been to, you know, provide a much more rational analysis on China and basically prove to the world that, you know, that the world is better with China and that we need to find a way to work with China.

Um, I'm going to share with you a tweet and this is kind of a, you know, we're kind of coming to the end of today's stream, but I want to just share with you, you know, this was an article that, it's not a recent article, this was published earlier, but, uh, this is a very concerning thing. Over 25% of people in the United States say that Chinese Americans are a threat. They are also found that 40% of Americans believe that Asian-Americans are more loyal to their countries of origin than the US. And I think this is a very dangerous symbol of what what is happening right now in the United States where again, our country has been built on immigration. Our country has been built on diversity. And the problem is you have many Asian-Americans that, you know, they're maybe second, third generation Americans, right? They're they're no different than myself, just a white American, you know, that are that are here in the United States, but they don't necessarily have a connection back to China or to their respective country in Asia. But yet we start seeing these surveys that say, you know, 40% of people think they're more loyal to their other countries. You know, 25% of Americans believe that, um, you know, that they are a threat to the future of America. That's a very concerning statistic there.

I'm going to show you a tweet that went viral. Um, and and this is a very concerning thing. Uh, this is this is actually these five people on screen. Actually, I should say the top left lady here. This was actually Miss Finland who actually did a very racist gesture, you know, mocking Asians. Um, this was shared by Li Jingjing. Many of you know her as a reporter. Uh, I've interviewed her several times on the channel. Um, and I simply just said, "How is this happening in 2025? What's even worse, how are members of Finland's political party doing this? What an absolute disgrace." Uh, this went on to get, you know, millions of views on Twitter and basically be the number one trending tweet with this story. And this is a very concerning thing because what happened is is you had Miss Finland who did this very racist gesture and she was stripped of her title. She was stripped of Miss Finland and she had to issue an apology. But the political party in Finland said she did nothing wrong. You know, you're allowed to have, you know, this this freedom of speech. And so the political members wanted to stand in solidarity with them and they started doing the same, you know, gesture. And it's just kind of like, what are we doing here in 2025? You know, are we really, you know, doing this kind of stuff? Is this where we are right now in the world? And again, this is something that I just find is, uh, you know, incredibly, incredibly, uh, crazy.

And and, you know, and again, to kind of highlight the hypocrisy here, I've got an interesting tweet here. This is from Bethany, who actually has written, I would kind of classify her as a very aggressive, you know, China hawk, you know, but she says, you know, she says, "Wow, even China doesn't do this. US plans to scrutinize foreign tourist social media history." So again, you know, we see the United States wanting to be this leader of free speech and this leader of the free world. But under Donald Trump, we've seen a complete, you know, um, I would say a backtrack of that. And and and actually look at this. US plans to scrutinize foreign tourist social media history. Even visitors from countries like Britain and France, whose citizens don't need a visa, would have to share 5 years worth of social media. Now, this is an interesting story because again, China does not do this and this is something that we see from Donald Trump and he's basically saying, look, we're going to check your social media over the past five years and if you've said anything that is against what we want to do, you know, we potentially cannot allow you into the country. Uh, that is very, very concerning. I mean, again, are we a champion of free speech? I mean, do we, do you have the free speech now to go on Twitter and send out a tweet, you know, criticizing the US government, or are we going down, um, you know, a very dangerous road?

Again, you know, I have never been questioned at all for my Chinese for for social media posts when you enter in China. You can, and and I've had this, I I had a lot of people on Twitter argue with me saying, Cyrus, I would never go to China. You know why? Because I've sent out tweets against China and the Chinese government would put me in jail. And my first response to that is always, who do you think you are that you think the Chinese government, you know, gives a damn about you? I mean, you're some random Twitter user. Do you honestly think that the Chinese government has better things to do than to track you and what tweets you're sending out? I was like, dude, if you're just a good person and you just, you know, simply enter into China and you just treat people with respect, you're never going to have an issue in China. Chinese people are incredibly welcoming. Chinese people are very curious. They're very welcoming of foreigners. And I've never had a border, I've never had an issue at a border of, you know, going into China. So again, it's kind of this, you know, this, um, this propaganda, these problems.

So guys, you know, I think that, um, you know, it's it's very, it's it's very interesting what's happened. And I'm just going to kind of conclude this. We're going to just do a couple of, uh, couple final minutes. Uh, I got to get the, uh, got to get home and get the kids ready for bed. Sorry, not ready for bed, ready for school. It's early here in the morning here in the United States. But I want to thank you all for being here today because we've had, I know people from all over the world. We've got somebody here from, uh, Mauritius tuning in. We've got people I know that were in China and Europe and South America. It's always fun to see where people are coming in from and I appreciate you guys, you know, taking time out of your day to spend it with me here on YouTube.

Uh, one of the things that we're going to do in the future is we're going to be, um, we're going to be doing a lot more live streams. You know, a few years ago, there was, I was a lot more consistent with live streams. I've kind of gotten away from that. And that's something that I'd like to do a little bit more of. You know, try to at least once a week come at you with a live stream and that way we can kind of get in front of these developing stories and really bring you some more on the ground analysis. I do have a lot of people that, um, I do have some, you know, kind of some things for the future. Um, I do have some amazing interviews lined up. I've got Colonel Douglas McGregor, who I'm going to be interviewing. We're going to be talking about the Russia-Ukraine war. We're going to be talking about Venezuela. I've got Sean Fu, who's coming in as well. Um, who is going to be, uh, you know, he's a great insider into all things finance. I think many of you guys follow him as well. And I'm definitely going to be interviewing Glenn Diesen, who is one of Europe's top professors. We're going to be talking about again, the future of the Ukraine war, kind of what's happening between the United States and and Europe and and and this. And yeah, absolutely. Su Gong. Um, you know, please stream more. I am going to be streaming a lot more. It's something that I really want to commit to more in 2026. Um, I've I've really been kind of, I've slowed down the last few weeks here on YouTube because I'm I'm actually preparing, you know, for a very big year. If you see, I'm actually kind of in a temporary office right now. Um, where I'm actually building a new podcast studio where I can be streaming every single week and actually have a a nice studio. If you if you followed my videos in 2025, you've probably seen that almost every video I'm in a new location. I've been traveling around a lot for work. I've been kind of, I've been moving houses as well. So, I'm like, I'm trying to find a place to record videos. So, I'm kind of, uh, getting ready for a big 2026 where we're actually going to have our dedicated podcast studio to actually produce, you know, our videos and and really take it to the next level. Uh, you know, we're getting very close to that million subscriber milestone, which hopefully we'll hit here in the next month or two. And, you know, I just really, um, you know, appreciate all of you guys, you know, and for for your amazing support. You guys mean the world to me. Obviously, this YouTube channel wouldn't be successful if it wasn't for our fans and for our community that really reaches out, engages with the content, continues to be here, continues to support me.

Um, you know, we've got, we've got some great, we got some great interviews lined up. Also, I just confirmed today that I'm going to have Kishore Mahbubani. I think many of you know him. He is one of Singapore's top diplomats. Uh, he's going to be coming on to the show. Uh, that's actually about a month away. So, he's going to be coming at the end of January. Uh, that's how far out you have to book him. Uh, but I was able to secure an interview with him at the end of January. So look for that in the future. Uh, Kishore is an amazing, amazing insight and honestly, I just, um, you know, our community is amazing here and, um, hey, uh, Raymond, Raymond Lee, I appreciate you, um, you know, for your comments as well. I know I wasn't as active in the comment section. Uh, I'm sorry if I missed your comments, guys, you know, as we were trying to, you know, try to give you guys a good live stream, but it feels good. I love doing the live streams. I love being here.

Um, uh, Burilio from, greetings from Brazil. Love your country. I was able to travel there in 2014 for the World Cup. Uh, my mother's from Germany. So, actually was very happy to see Germany win the World Cup there. That was one of my peak experiences of my life was seeing that Germany World World Cup there. That was beautiful.

Um, so guys, um, I'm going to just go ahead and end it there. Let's, I got my little outro, but again, we've got some great guests. We've got Colonel Douglas McGregor, Sean Fu, Glenn Diesen, Kishore Mahbubani. We're going to be doing more live streams in 2026. We're going to be doing more videos where we're on the ground again at this Consumer Electronic Show first week of January showing you the latest Chinese tech that's coming into America and around the world. And most importantly, what I want you guys to realize is is that, you know, um, you know, I think I think the future, I'm always an optimist. I always believe that the United States and China are going to find a way to work together. Uh, look for my new video that's going to be coming out at the end of the year. It's going to be, you know, basically like the top 10 stories from China in 2025. Really excited to bring that video. So guys, let's go ahead and roll the outro. I'll be in the comment section for a little bit, but thank you all for your amazing support and we will talk soon. And I'll see you guys in our next video soon.