Power Shifting East More Obviously Than Ever Before. | Trending Ep338

 As Trump's visit to China comes to an end, the public display of power moving East is clearer than ever before. Farage predicts Reform government within 12 months. Parents encouraged to use AI to protect their kids online, as reports of AI chat bots leaking personal data surfaces.

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SPEAKER_00 0:05

Good morning everybody and welcome to Friday's episode of Trending. I hope you had a lovely week wherever you are in the world. Right, today we're going to touch on what's gone on this week in China between Trump and Xi Jinping. This meeting that's been portrayed as a massive, massive statement on both sides and very, very essential to the future of world peace, economic ties, and so on. There's been talks of the Middle East, obviously. There's been talks of tariffs and talks of Taiwan and various other things too. But what seems to have come from it, firstly, when you look at the images, is that the power is all in the East. You look at, and people might say, you know, it's hosted in China, therefore, of course, they're going to look like the ones that are the more powerful. They're the ones hosting it. But dynamics and body language and things like that are very, very simple to read. And it's clear where the power really is. Trump has looked on screen, as members of his team, like Rubio and Hegseth and so on, they've looked like children in the playground as the big boys have turned up to meet them. And they just look completely out their depth. And I think what's really important to discuss here is that we've always been taught in the West that the US is the leader of the free world and the power dynamic of the world is very much in the West. It's with NATO, it's with the G8 and those sort of nations that are the most powerful, have the biggest economies, have the highest standard of living, have the best healthcare, have the best food, have the best standard of life, the best technology, all of those things. The most powerful cars, the most, you know, industrialized cities and and modern modern um modern environments. But we've seen progressively over the last two decades, I would say, power move further and further east in various different ways, whether that be power on the world stage, whether that be advancements of technology, whether that be economic power, and also whether that be public perception, because Russia and China have very much intertwined as a block. The BRICS nations, which obviously includes those two, includes countries like Brazil, like India, Saudi Arabia now as well, and Iran, I believe. They are more and more becoming more powerful. They're creating financial transaction software that's alternatives to SWIFT. They're dealing with their own currencies rather than the US dollar as the reserve currency for international transactions. So all of those things are moving power eastwards. China have brought up incredible amounts of physical gold, physical silver over the last few years as well, as have Russia. So this whole idea of power moving further and further east, you only have to take a step back for a second and look at it, and you can see it. It's in full public display. And this is obviously not organic. This is being done on purpose. I've seen over the years, we've seen various different um examples of this, and people have made jokes about certain examples, mainly to do with the military, when they'll they'll show pictures of Chinese um soldiers and departments and so on, and then they'll show some of the US just ticking a box with their LGBTQ, GUK, all that sort of stuff as well, making the point that you know, in a in a war environment, which side is going to have more power? But it's much deeper than that. Because there's been this obviously this talk, and people like like David and others have written since the mid-90s about a World War III. And that World War III was meant to be Russia and China and a few allies maybe chucked in against NATO. And we have seen two or three examples in the last 10 years where that felt very, very close to happening. Whether that be the Salisbury incident here in Britain and Russia and the UK seemed very close to a conflict, whether that be a flashpoint in Syria when Russia backed the Assad regime, or whether that be the escalation of what's happening in Ukraine. Yet what's happening in Ukraine seems to be a bit like what's happening in Iran at the moment, which is it's kind of at stalemate. It's still making news, of course, but it's at stalemate. There doesn't seem to be stories on a daily basis of, oh, advancements here or this or that, like there was obviously at the beginning of the conflict. But what it's doing is that stalemate is creating a kind of a state of flux where nothing's really changing. The civilians in Ukraine can't go back to a normal life, the civilians in Russia can't go back to a normal life. Economically, countries like the UK and other NATO nations are still sending vast sums of money to Ukraine, which is putting more pressure on their own economies. There's always money for Zelensky, never money for people, especially when it comes to Britain and France, who have given an insane amount of money. So that's creating that situation, but it doesn't feel like it felt a couple of years ago where all of a sudden there's going to be a war declared. And there's obviously always been the elephant in the room, which has been China and Taiwan. Taiwan is a sovereign nation that China has always seen as part of its own and has said for decades that one day it will go and take it. It's been heavily backed militarily by the US and economically by the US, Taiwan has. And there's always been that perception that if China attacked Taiwan, the US would back them up and therefore there would be your conflict. Now, again, that's gone relatively quiet over the last few years, a few weeks, few months. And Trump's rhetoric, because Trump is a child and he's very reactionary and emotional, his rhetoric changes depending on what mood he's in. So he will say one thing here, one thing there. Whereas Xi Jinping, along with leaders like Putin, their intelligence levels are obviously not very nice people at all, and they're controlled in the same way. But when it comes to basic intelligence and the way they communicate, they are light years ahead of people like Donald Trump and Kia Starmer and Emmanuel Macron and so on. They're very calm, they're very articulate people. They don't appear to come across with emotion and appear to come across, you know, wildly making certain accusations and saying certain things are going to happen. They're very, very different. They appear to be much more calculated. Now I would suggest Trump's just playing a character. Although he's an idiot, and he clearly is an idiot. I would suggest he's playing a bit of a character, and that sort of drunk grandad that just shouts things left, right, and centre, you can do one. No, no, you can do one. All right, you're alright. That sort of thing that you kind of you see the old uh the old um example of at family weddings when everyone's had a few too many beers, everyone kicks off. Trump's got that kind of persona about him. But if you look at it from a s from like you know a five cents level, these people are gonna have him for breakfast, absolutely have him for breakfast, and he's over there and he's looking exactly like that. It looks like these people are the ones in control, and when you look at the agenda of this cult, that makes perfect sense because we are being sold an AI technological dystopia, a George Orwell style control system with mass surveillance, with electronic currency, with interaction with AI, with robots, a social credit system. Well, I've just described the Chinese society. So if the outcome that they want to create for the entire world is already in existence in a major country like China with a major economy that has you know a large percentage of the world's population living there, why would you have a war, defeat that, and then try and sell that to the very nations that you've rallied to fight against that exact society? Well, you wouldn't, would you? That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. And it would be like after World War II, defeating the Nazis, if you believe the official story of everything, defeating Hitler, and then trying to impose a regime similar to Hitler's here in Great Britain and America and France and Holland and so on. How do you think that would have gone? Well, it wouldn't have gone very well, would it? So, what's a much better ploy is for power to be moved further and further eastward, and if there is either a conflict of any description or it's just an economic takeover based on the destruction of economies in the West, then that power is going to move m further and further and more and more into the hands of a nation that has the exact society that you want to roll out right across the world. Well, that seems a much better tactic, doesn't it? Because if you have a conflict, that type that team, that side win, and then just impose their society on the rest of the world after that, then all of a sudden you've got your outcome. And you've got your outcome very, very easily. I spoke on, I think it was Wednesday's episode, about there's two ways to beat people into submission, and you can either have a massive catalyzing event that forces people to react, or you can do it slowly and slowly over time. And it feels like what we're seeing here, you know, a war, a massive hot war, a nuclear apocalypse or whatever, would be one way to go about it. A big World War III. Another one is to do exactly what they're doing now, which is economically bit by bit by bit by bit destroy countries, break them down, make them weaker, make them more beholden. So we've seen the destruction of the manufacturing industry for a long time, and all that power has been moved eastwards, all that influence. That's why things like the situation in the Middle East where shipping lanes are closed, that creates such devastation because countries are not self-sufficient. If each country was self-sufficient and each country produced its own goods, things like the Strait of Hormuz being closed would not be a major issue. They're major issues because countries import lots from other nations. When in Britain's case, we have oil in the North Sea that's not being tapped into. You know, it's it's very clear that these situations are created on purpose. So all of that power for things like manufacturing and production has been moved eastwards into nations like China, Taiwan, and other countries in Asia. So there's a huge influence then, isn't it? As a result. And just to touch on a couple of the uh the sentences and words used by uh Xi Jiangping, he talked about something, and I'm gonna probably butcher the pronunciation of this the glide's trap or Thu Cyglide's trap, which is a political theory that's been popularized by a Harvard scholar called Graham Allison, which talks about how when two rising powers threaten to displace an established power, it creates war. Um and Xi Jinping has talked about how the US need to be partners, not rivals, rather than these two countries growing to the point that they need to they oppose each other and they fight each other because they're both sort of jostling for that international status, they actually work together. That's just described pretty much what I've just said, which is if the power is here and you have this nation, well, if you're working together as partners, what do you think is gonna happen? Do you think the US is gonna pull China and that communist regime more and more into a democracy and an open society as America is portrayed and is compared to China? Or do you think it's gonna work the other way around? And as their partners, the US are pulled more and more towards that social credit system, towards that mass surveillance state that we see over in Beijing. It's I think it's very obvious what's being played out now, and as you see those two nations cozying up, the other thing that he's doing is, in theory, on public perception, isolating Russia more and more, and they've always been seen as very much as a pact, Russia and China. Although Putin is supposedly going over to to meet Xi Jinping as as quick as next week over in um China. So whether that's just an illusion, who knows? They're all controlled by the same people when it when it when it when you strip it back. But I'd say this is the most obvious public display of that power being moved. I think it's been, you know, if you've done your research, it's been clear for a long time that's what's happening, and the destruction of the West has been very clear for a long time through various different means economically, immigration, so on. However, this is a very obvious public display and almost like a ritualistic announcement that this power is being moved there, and they're happy to tell you that now because they think it's probably irreversible. And as we always say with the old vampire thing, they have to tell you what they're doing. The vampire has to be invited in. You have to be complicit or non-resistant in whatever it is they're doing, and that then means they have whether it's karmic clearance to go ahead and do it. I don't know how these people think they're psychopaths. But to me, it's very, very clear what we're seeing. So, what happens after this announce after this meeting? I would expect to see more and more influence of China on US life. And that will obviously go against everything the Trump base wants. He'll probably chuck them a few breadcrumbs, like I've been seeing these stories about increasing the purchases of American agricultural products from China. So increasing the purchase of US soybeans and US beef, which will keep the farmers happy and maybe keep them a bit quiet. But that's a very small thing compared to the overarching real power that is being moved eastwards. Well, thank you for tuning in with me if you're watching the free version. If you head over to iconic.com, we're going to talk a little bit about British politics and then we're going to talk major about AI. Because once again, I covered an interesting story about this on Wednesday, but there's more coming out every day that's involving children and involving data and privacy and protecting kids are two of the things that unite most people. So hopefully we can, you know, finally take off the rose-tinted glasses and see that this technology is not our friend. It's something that maybe could be used in certain scenarios, but it's certainly not our friend, and certainly not something we should be giving such influence to. So we're going to dive into that and more on the second half of the show. I'll see you over there.

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