Strategic Shift: China Diverts Exports Away from American Markets! W/James Bradley

Hello everybody and welcome to Geopolitical Trends, where truth matters. Excited to be with you once again. I'm your host, Dr. Oualaalou. I hope you enjoyed the interview last night with Ina Tangan and Warwick Pao. It's always nice. But today I have another great guest for you, is my dear friend James Bradley. So I'm going to bring him in, in the studio. But before I'll do this, Let me share with you a little background about James. James Bradley is— to those who do not know who James is, is an American Pacific historian. He is the author of 5 books about America's involvement in Hawaii, the Philippines, Guam, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, China, and Vietnam. He's also the number 1 New York Times bestselling author Flags of Our Fathers. I have a picture, I believe, of this one. Not this one, I have the picture of all the books right there for James. So he's also, as I said, New York number one New York bestseller author of Flags of Our Fathers, Flyboys, The Imperial Cruise, and The China Mirage. James spent over 10 years living in Vietnam researching his latest book, Precious Freedom. To those who are familiar with the US military history, James is the son of the Iowa Gina hero, John Bradley. Let me bring in my dear friend James. Hi, James. Good to have you. Good to have you once again. The community is so excited and you hold your end to the bargain like you said to me last time. You will grant me the second part of the interview. So I'm very thankful to you, and on behalf of the entire community, we say thank you. So what I want to talk with you today, James, is, uh, there is something that is fundamentally— we've been noticing for the last few decades, it's nothing new, but it's coming to the surface. And this one has to do with the manipulation of the truth. Why there is no more truth? Why the politicians are not talking truthfully? To their constituents, why some governments are sort of twisting the reality and the truth to sell a narrative or an agenda. And for this, we wanted to highlight, for example, with the Vietnam lies, and we'll tie it into what's going on in modern day regarding the US-China relations. Cool.

Ready for Freddy?

Yes, I am.

Well, Dr. David was kind enough to let me put some visuals together so you don't have to listen to me too much. And, uh, here we go. Can you— if I click on this, Doctor, can the audience see that?

Uh, let me see here. It's Bart Starr.

You should see Bart Starr and Vince Lombardi.

Uh, yes, I see this one. Hold on, right there.

Okay, I caddied for Vince Lombardi and Bart Starr, and there's my book Precious Freedom. Why do I have these two juxtaposed? It's because when I was a kid, you won or lost, it was black or white. And after Vietnam, we didn't say black Hey, we lost and we want to figure out how we lost. If you want to figure out how you lost, you want to figure out how the other side won. Vince Lombardi never said, we're the greatest football team in the world and we're the best. And no, he just either won or lost. And when he lost, he studied why. So that's the basis of Precious Freedom. I went to Vietnam and I asked the winners of that war, How did you win? And I was shocked to realize that Ho Chi Minh in the 1930s. So we think of the Vietnam War as the 1960s and '70s. But in the 1930s, Ho Chi Minh was saying, I spent 30 years overseas studying the West and the West is— we're going to beat the West, not in Vietnam, but we're going to beat France and Paris and we're going to beat America in Washington. What did he mean? He meant that the morality of the war is going to be understood in these countries and they are going to object and there's going to be protests, folks. The Vietnam War protests that everybody thinks grew up at Berkeley and Wisconsin and Columbia, that was in Ho Chi Minh's mind in the 1930s. That's why this book is called Precious Freedom, because Ho Chi Minh said to his people, "There's nothing more precious than freedom." He made it a moral case. So if you look at the next slide, we're not told that there was a gulag, an American gulag. That's a tiger cage in the middle. The guy on your left is Pham Van Dong, Prime Minister. He was held, you know, semi-nude in a, in a gulag. That's me at his solitary confinement cell. So he's, he's like a Nelson Mandela who's held in jail and he rises up and becomes the longest serving prime minister of the 20th century. We don't know this now. So in 1954, the Geneva Convention said We're drawing a line and it's provisional and it's not a political territorial boundary. So in the convention, they said, we're going to draw a line so the French can withdraw. This is not demarcating two countries. But what— and that's just like now, right now, people think Taiwan's an independent country. But in the Shanghai Communiqué in 1972, We, America, agreed that China and Taiwan are one.

Yeah.

So the official position of the United States government is Taiwan's part of China. But we're telling through the media, if you ask an American, they will say Taiwan is a separate country, like, you know, like France or Germany. No, no, no, no, no. And it's just like what I was saying. Back in 1954, it was agreed that there were not two countries. And so on September 2nd, 1945, Douglas MacArthur takes the Japanese surrender on an American ship in Tokyo Bay. Did you notice that when Trump met with the Japanese Prime Minister, he said he was going to Japan? He didn't go to Japan. He went to an American aircraft carrier and dragged the Japanese. Can you imagine if another country had an aircraft carrier off the coast of Washington and said to Trump, we won't come to the White House, you come out to our aircraft carrier? So Japan is just a, you know, surrender. They are a puppet of the United States. But on that same day, Ho Chi Minh said, hey, Hey, America says Asia is free and we are free too. And this is a mind game that the Buddhist Taoist Ho Chi Minh played on America that Americans still don't realize today. Our narrative is that on September 2nd, Ho Chi Minh declared independence and then it took them 30 years to beat the French and the Americans. That's not true. On September 2nd, The Vietnamese decided they were free and they didn't believe in this North and South Vietnam. And they saw themselves as free from that date onward. So, Ho Chi Minh is writing letters to Harry Truman. We would love to be friends with the United States, he said. China's broke. Russia's broke. We don't like borscht. We love steaks. We love America. So, what Ho Chi Minh didn't know is that in August of 1945, do you see the characters to your right? That's Harry Truman meeting with President Charles de Gaulle. Well, they secretly agreed. De Gaulle went to Truman, who knew nothing about Asia, and said, Mr. Truman, there's commies in, uh, in Vietnam, and if you got to support France to keep the commies out, So Truman said, okay, but doctor, if you could look to your right in that photo. I'm sorry, if you could keep that photo up. There's a— there's somebody with a suit on in the back. See the figure where my cursor is?

Yes, the— on the back, back right on the screen.

Back right on the screen. This is a photo that's never seen in America. The guy on the back right, his name was Lyndon Johnson. What was Lyndon Johnson doing at this meeting in 1945? He was Congressman Johnson, head of the Naval Affairs Committee, and he's the guy that had to ship US arms to Vietnam to help the French. In other words, in Tokyo Bay, we had General MacArthur say, "Asia's free," but Truman was meeting with the French saying, Asia's not free. We're going to support you taking over. So LBJ's war did— in Vietnam did not begin in 1964. It began in 1945. So who's on the left here? That's Richard Nixon. Well, just a minute. Richard Nixon, 1953, he was vice president. You know why he was in Vietnam? Because the French were losing So they came up with an idea called Vietnamization. People think Vietnamization came out of the 1970s with President Nixon. No, this is 1953, Richard Nixon, vice president. Well, just a few months later, General Giap, the guy sitting there at Dien Bien Phu, beats the French. So Nixon, Nixon wasn't defeated first time in the 1970s in Vietnam. He was defeated in 1954, but America would not give up. So here's the Vietnamese in 1954. We're one country. We're free. We got rid of the French. We are one country. Ho Chi Minh is our George Washington. But what happened? Eisenhower said, we're going to support this dictator here. Because— and this is a quote from President Eisenhower— he said, if elections were held, Ho Chi Minh would have won 80% of the vote. We can't allow a free election. Ho Chi Minh might be president. So Eisenhower, the champion of democracy, squashed free elections. The Vietnamese love their Ho Chi Minh. So here on your left is Thomas Jefferson. In the middle is Prince Khanh. And then the right is the Buddhist protest where the Buddhist priest burned himself to death. Now, just a minute. This is Thomas Jefferson in the 1890s with Prince Khan. And how am I connecting it to 1963? Thomas Jefferson was the first American to meet a Vietnamese, and he met Prince Khan in Paris. And Prince Khanh was under the tutelage of a French priest. And the French priest said to Jefferson and to Marie Antoinette, Vietnam will be Catholic, we'll make it a Catholic country. And Jefferson agreed. And this later led to the Buddhist crisis 170 years later. So on your left you see Prince Khanh, the little boy, and then you see the priest, Father Pignault, and in the background, this is Notre Dame Cathedral in Saigon.

No, Saigon. Wow.

But see the image. This is a French priest with a little tiny Vietnamese, and in the French, that's the Versailles Treaty that Jefferson approved He approved the French taking Vietnam. So these are the Catholics saying, you Buddhists don't matter. The Catholics are boss. Now look at this book, Deliver Us from Evil. Do you notice that Dr. Tom Dooley is with a little Vietnamese kid? Do you see the imagery is the same?

Yeah.

And Dr. Tom Dooley is a Catholic doctor. And he writes the number one book on Vietnam in the 1950s. And I'll show you what the book is about. What happened? Do you see the Pope up in the left-hand corner? So that's, that's the Pope. That's Cardinal Spellman is the next one. It's the Catholic Archbishop of Hue in Vietnam. And then President Diem of Vietnam. So those 4 guys on top are all Catholics. So Cardinal Spellman said to the Pope, we can— after World War II, the French are weak, but we have these Catholics who can take over. Look at, you know, Bishop Archbishop Thuc and his brother will install them. This was a Catholic conspiracy to keep Roman Catholic control after the French were kicked out. And in Washington, Cardinal Spellman started a committee called the Friends of Vietnam Committee, and it was headed by Joseph McCarthy, Catholic, John Kennedy, Catholic, Mike McCormick, Catholic, Catholic, Justice William O. Douglas, Catholic. It was Catholics who supported the takeover of Vietnam by American supported people. So this is Cardinal Spellman, the militarized Catholic priest. And we came up with the baloney domino theory. If Vietnam falls, all of Asia is going to fall. Well, this theory was never debated within the government. And we're still doing a theory like this with Taiwan. You know, if we don't fight for Taiwan, you know, Taiwan will fall and America, you know, oh my God, what's going to happen? It's the same baloney. That were being fed. So they, they, the CIA did this operation to Passage to Freedom. In the left, on the left is the American view of Vietnam. America, the CIA said, look at, there's two countries and there's a DMZ, and then we are going to help South Vietnam. And the CIA came up with this Passage to Freedom where they brought Catholics down from North Vietnam to support the Catholic in South Vietnam. And Tom Dooley wrote this propaganda book, but the CIA— this is a CIA book. But, Doctor, this is the number one book about Vietnam in America. And it tells the Americans that Vietnam is a Catholic country. So we support the dictator Diem, Eisenhower does. Here's Johnson with a dictator. Here's Obama with the dictator from Afghanistan. Here's Biden with a dictator. We support these dictators, but the American press says that they're democracy lovers. So I don't know if there's something racist going on here. There's the handsome John Kennedy. There's Charles de Gaulle. Well, look at these tiny little Asians. The guy with the tie on, that's General Xiap. Folks, that's the number one most winningest general of the 20th century. Look at Ho Chi Minh with the shorts on. They look funny.

Ho, ho, ho.

No, no, no. These two guys beat France, China, the United States, and Japan. This is the winningest military team of the 20th century. We don't recognize this, we don't study it. Now I have to go to the next set of slides. When I went to Vietnam, the Vietnamese said— I said, "How did you win?" Many of them said, "Oh, Mr. Bradley, thank God for the helicopter." What does that mean? The helicopter is a sign of strength in the United States. You know, but it was a sign of weakness. Look at the helicopter. It's a machine. It's full of Marines, soldiers, and the helicopter needed a landing zone. So the Americans would drop a bomb, create an LZ, and then the Vietnamese knew where to sit and attack it, and they'd hide behind a tree. Helicopters helped the Vietnamese. So here's Pete Egseth doing, you know, PT as he says it. Well, Pete, I hate to tell you something. Look at the guy in the middle. That's a Vietnamese Marine. He was in good shape. It wasn't that they were in good shape. Look at the woman on the left. Vietnamese women pushed the Marines out of Vietnam is what my book Precious Freedom tells you to the surprise. Pete, the problem wasn't with the muscles in our Marines. It was the muscles in your brains in the Pentagon. Americans are not told this. The guy on the left is Carlos Hathcock. He is celebrated that he is the number one sniper of the Vietnam War. He killed 93 Vietnamese. Number one guy. Oh my God, he gives speeches, there's books written about him. Folks, see the chick on the right with the rifle? She killed 174 Americans. She doubled the number of kills. Women were sitting in trees killing Americans, and we still have not been told this. You'll see the true story in my book, Precious Freedom. So Precious Freedom is basically about the girl on the left, Mae. She's 15 years old. She's a farm girl. Chip on the right shoots her father. Mae is not military-minded. She's a farm girl. But she sees this American. All of a sudden, she knows who the enemy is. She says, "I'm going to kill every American I ever see." She goes to the forest. Our narrative is that the Vietnamese got lucky. No, no, no. When she went to the forest, Ho Chi Minh had a plan and he trained her. And this little 15-year-old chick ended up killing 5 Marines. 5 of the Marines with their names on the Vietnam War Memorial were killed by a 15-year-old girl in sandals. So the American idea is if we take this woman and make her more butch, you know, more serious looking, like a, um, like a, uh, there you go. If we make more serious looking, you know, we're going to win wars. Pete Hegseth doesn't work that way. Look at the chicks on the right. They wear lipstick. Those are Vietnamese girls who won the war. Pete, maybe we need skirts rather than butch women fighting. The point is, it's not about PT and getting in shape, Pete Hegseth. It's about the meat in the Pentagon's brains. And they— the military was wrong about Vietnam, and the military leaders were wrong about this coming war with China. And do I have another slide? So here we have these officers were sitting there listening to Trump last month. We've got too many officers. The guy on the right, General Giap, as I say, he's the winningest general of the 20th century. He didn't have a big bureaucracy. They fought small. The Vietnamese told me, we rarely had more than 15 guys in a group. The Americans would have 40 going out in a platoon. We've got too many meatheads and not enough thinkers. We've got a bureaucracy. And this is what they're thinking about. On top is the World Island. This is a geopolitical strategy that came about by a guy named Mackinder. You can study it on the internet. And he said, he who controls the World Island controls the world. If you control Chile, you don't control much. If you control New Zealand, you don't have anything. It's the world island with China, Iran, India, Russia. That's where the minerals, manufacturing, and people are. So look at our bases. We don't show this on American TV. Look at all these bases. We, we have 1,000 bases around the world. We're surrounding all these countries. Pete Haig said the number one goal of the military is lethality. That's not true. We have 85,000 school teachers in the military on these bases. We have hedge trimmers. We have road construction guys. We're, we, we're running an empire and our military is inefficient because of it. See, this is Walter Cronkite and this is the idiot from ABC. He's got the number one newscast. You can never see this map This map is taken from a documentary I was in called The Coming War on China. The Coming War on China. And people should watch it. These trade deals, we're not going to— the trade deal, the this deal, I'm going to talk to Xi, Trump says. No, we're out in the Pacific preparing for war. So here Trump says that we beat the Houthis. Look, Yemen, the Yemen press is laughing at Trump. And the— I don't know if Americans know, American aircraft carriers had to skedaddle away from Yemen because Yemen was attacking them with basically lawnmower drones. And the US was afraid that Yemen was going to sink an aircraft carrier. So, Ho Chi Minh said, "There's nothing more precious than freedom." And— but we ran a technology war versus a moral war, and we lost. So, again, Flags of Our Fathers is about how my father's Marines won on Iwo Jima. We had a military that was lethal with a good plan. My last book here, Precious Freedom, is about how the Marines lost in Vietnam. And it wasn't because of the individual Marine. The Marines were trained and they fought well. It's they were trained for the wrong thing. And we're training our Marines and our soldiers for a war with China that we cannot win. So that's basically that. That's me talking, and thanks for the images, Doctor. I had to bore people for longer.

No, no, no, no, not at all, James. Before we move this picture out, if you will be kind and share with our community, James, what is the book of Flyboys is all about.

Okay, so Flags was my first. Flyboys. Okay, Flyboys is my favorite. It's about how the Air Corps, the The airmen got Japan to surrender. No country ever surrendered without an invasion. Hitler didn't surrender until the Russians invaded the heart of Germany. But we got Japan to surrender from the air. And in this story is the story of George Herbert Walker Bush, who— there was an island of Chichi-jima. 8 pilots got shot down and they got beheaded and had their livers barbecued and eaten. Bush got shot down. The Japanese were about to get him, and in an accident of fate, he got saved by a U.S. submarine. But he didn't know the story until I revealed it to him years later. And then my next book, The Imperial Cruise, I thought, how do we get out into the Pacific? And I, I document how Teddy Roosevelt first pushed America into the Pacific And the China Mirage is about how Franklin Roosevelt stumbled us into World War II. People don't know that we supported the Japanese invasion of China. The Japanese went into China and Wall Street, you know, did their bonds and U.S. Steel sold them steel. Franklin Roosevelt supported the Japanese going into China. It wasn't until the Japanese invaded Vietnam that we cut off the oil. And that was a stupid move because the Japanese couldn't survive without oil. So they attacked us at Pearl Harbor. This was a totally preventable war. But Franklin Roosevelt gummed it up and we had World War II.

Well, I do remember, James, when I was in China and the community that funded my trip to China, I had a chance to go to Nanjing City and I went to the museum inside. And of course you can't do— take pictures. It's, it's somber. You can't, and I won't. You can't do anything. You can see what to read and learn about the history. And what I learned, it was heartbreaking to really realize what the Japanese have done to the Chinese in Nanjing City. It was still one picture that still haunts me. It was an elderly She's probably in her late 70s, almost late 80s. And the way she was dragged by the— they depicted in the picture because it was the picture of it dragged by the Japanese. So it was very, very, very horrible what the Japanese have committed inside China. So, and this brings me to talk about this concept of the truth, James. Why are we sort of here in the US, and I can't speak for the rest of the world, here in the US, why is this, this lies about what's going on in China, what's going on, oh, Taiwan is part of China, is an independent state, is this, is that, why the truth is not being told so we can decide for ourselves? Like if you are, I look at it like the example of a professor, if you are a professor You're going to give the students the facts. You don't reach conclusion for them. You let them use their brain to reach their own conclusions.

My historical answer is, if you look back, we have never been honest about China. We have seen the potential of China. The, you know, back then it was 600 million or whatever the numbers are, but they've always been 2, 3, 4 times more than our population. And then if you see the individual Chinese getting education, working hard, building a business, you know, when the Chinese came to build the railroad in America, that we brought them in because the Europeans couldn't get through the granite of the Sierra Nevada. The Chinese had built the Great Wall and they got through. Then when we disbanded the Chinese laborers from working on the railroad, they dispersed around the West. Now, folks, if you watch a John Wayne movie or Clint Eastwood and they go into the bar, you know, "How you doing? I'll have a whiskey," that should be a Chinese bartender. They should be staying in a Chinese hotel. They should be going to a Chinese store to buy their bullets because the Chinese spread out all over the West and they were successful. They were so successful that Americans took up guns and they ethnic cleansed the West. They pushed the Chinese out. Well, the Chinese kept being so successful that we— see, back in the 1800s, there were no immigration laws. Anybody could come. You just came and then, you know, here you are, an American. But we invented the Chinese Exclusion Act. There was only one race that we didn't want in America, and that was the Chinese. Because they were too successful. We made excuses that they couldn't figure out democracy, but the— we've always been afraid of the Chinese. So from 1892 to 1965, very few Americans ever met a Chinese. I didn't live next to Chinese. I lived near Polish people and Russians and Czechs, and I— there were Italians running the fruit store, and, you know, but very, very, very few Asians. We didn't rub elbows with Asians because they weren't allowed to come in the country. We have been afraid of them. Then the China Mirage, the name is America loves China when it's going to become just like us. So we installed a dictator, Chiang Kai-shek, and we love China. Oh, Pearl Buck wrote about China. We did a movie, The Great— the great earth, the, and, uh, the good earth. And we love China. It had a terrible dictator, the people were oppressed, but the Chinese said, oh America, we're going to be just like you, we're going to become Christian, we're going to become American. And America, when Pearl Harbor happened, they did a poll and China was the number one ally above the UK. We loved China when China said they're going to be like us. Then Mao Zedong says in 1949, no, we're not going to be like America. We're going to be like China. And oh my God, who lost China? You know, this is terrible. The Chinese want to be Chinese. Oh my God, they're supposed to be just like us. And then there was a period in the Bush-Obama years The propaganda was, you know, we'll just see, we're so good, we're Democrats, we're Americans, and the Chinese will open up our universities. They'll see, they'll want to become just like us. And now we're going through the same reaction. Oh my God, the Chinese want to be Chinese. They want to dominate in AI. Well, folks, there's 1.5 billion Chinese. They go to school. We're graduating engineers. They're graduating engineers. I mean, I've been preaching for 20 years that China was going to leap ahead of us and Americans were sleeping. Now that they're leaping ahead of us, we only have one solution, and that is surround China with military equipment. And we're going to start a Tonkin Gulf, Pearl Harbor reason, and we're going to fight those damn Chinese. We are putting blood banks out into the Pacific right now. Blood banks, folks. We are moving mobile hospitals out in the Pacific. Why? We're not going to do a trade deal and make Chinese friends. The military is planning for war.

Tinian.

I've been to Tinian. What's Tinian? Tinian is the island that the Enola Gay took off to bomb Hiroshima. It has a long cement runway. Well, after World War II, the runway went to hell. Grass came up and Tinian was overgrown. Guess what, taxpayers? A few years ago, like 3 years ago, you sent out guys to hack down all that growth and redo those long cement— why do you need long cement runways out in Tinian? Because we're gonna aim it at China. We're going to war with China. So the plan you can see in the documentary, The Coming War with China, we planned for the war in Vietnam. It's presented as a surprise, but you can see in the book, military was planning for war in Vietnam and they're planning, I hate to say this, but the US military Just read their papers and look at what they're doing and go out to the Pacific. They are planning for war.

Wow, wow, that's disturbing. You brought up the AI, James, and I am very familiar with— as a matter of fact, I did share it with the community that it was one of the top AI individuals here in the United States left to go back home to China. His name is Songshan Cho. I have a picture of him. This guy is— was one of the top 28 years in the AI field, you know, and finally he left and went back to— so you're absolutely correct about, uh, where this idea of the push— I remember when I was in Washington, the conversation back in 2005, 2006, started the conversation about that we need to consider Asia, shifting towards Asia. Why? Because the conversation at that time was about, well, if you don't contain China, you know, they gonna surpass us. And I was like, my argument was at that time, well, first of all, what makes you think you will be able to contain China? China is no Soviet Union. China has learned from what took place in the Soviet Union and not about to make the same mistakes. And my argument wasn't taken seriously. That you won't be able to contain China. And here we are.

I had a member of the House of Representatives. I said, you know, I said, what is this thinking in Washington about fighting China?

China.

I mean, you can't. I mean, that's ridiculous. And he said, you know, he said, if there was a vote tomorrow in the House of Representatives to go to war with China, he said, I think it would pass 100%. But ask, you know, to your audience members and to Washington, ask, like, our good doctor here has been to China. His feet have been on the ground. And I don't mean flying to Shanghai to have dinner with an official. He's seen what's going on. And, Doctor, let me ask you a question. If you get below the politics and all the gibberish, If you walk around China from your visits, is the basic quality of life higher in China or on the streets of America?

It is better than here in the US. And you know what led me to say this, especially now with my second trip, is the affordability. Chinese don't have to think much about, can I afford to go to the grocery store and buy stuff? That's what I noticed when I walked in into supermarkets. I walked in into traditional markets just where they bring food, veggies from the farm, still have dirt in them. And I saw and I asked, you know, what I noticed is that people don't have to sit and wonder, can I afford the pound of meat? Speaking of meat, I found out the price of how much it cost It's $5 a pound in Beijing last time I saw it. 2 days ago, I went to grocery store right here, James, and you know how much the pound of meat here? $27. $27. So you ask yourself, I saw the, you know, I got on a high-speed train and so forth. When you see the infrastructure that is in China that is making life easier for the people, That's why people are happy. And they said to themselves, we can count on a government that is working on our behalf. And all I say when I talk like this, some say you don't like America. It's nonsense.

You know, but let's stay there because I got to beg your audience and the American public. We're so inundated about negative on China. So inundated that when the good doctor just says what he saw in China, they're like, you know, they have to respond, you don't like America. I love America, but I want New York streets to be safe like Shanghai streets. There's no girl in a miniskirt in Beijing or Shanghai or Ho Chi Minh City walking around at midnight worried about a guy going to jump her. That is not happening. Those streets are safe and life is affordable. So if we bring it underneath the propaganda, you know, Xi's a dictator and he's controlling his people. Well, I don't get that. If you, you know, if you go into China, people, there's a harmony. The Chinese government is working for its people. Yes, there's You know, fraud and corruption everywhere, in every— in families even, right? But if you look, basically, the Chinese government is trying to stay in power, and they're doing that by making the lives of their people better. America just gave $40 billion, maybe $60 billion to Argentina. We just sent $200 trillion— $200 billion to Ukraine. We are spending billions of secret money out in the Pacific for war. Like, why? Lockheed is doing well, but the American public is not. The Chinese public is doing very well. And Dr. Oualaalou, I wish somehow we could break through and just get that people-to-people message through that the average Chinese is living a safer and better, higher quality life than the average American. And it wasn't that way in 1975 when I first went out there.

That is true. That is true, James. And even I— you look at it for— and literally, when I was there, I, I didn't stay in the hotel. Of course, you have to walk around to see. That's the whole purpose for why I went there. It's not about tourism, it's about really seeing the truth for how it is. And I became convinced In my first trip, I became convinced why the media here will not want the American people to learn the truth about the way of life in China. Yes, it's a different system. Yes, it's different ideology. Who cares about that? If that system and that ideology is working for the average person, be it. Well, here we are, we're talking about this freedom stuff, we're talking about this and that. And yet the average citizen here is struggling now. We're looking, you know, I'm telling you based on what I'm seeing here, James, people are struggling. They don't know how to deal with sort of these changes in prices that's going up. A policy that the United States government embarked on, Donald Trump himself embarked on these failed policies regarding tariffs. Without taking into consideration how it's going to impact the average person who is on a fixed income. And yet Trump now wants to meet with President Xi Jinping. You know, it's like, why? If, if it were up to me advising President Xi Jinping, I said forget about giving the guy an audience. Why meet with him for?

It's just about, uh, I mean, the American people are not being told that we're— what we're doing is we're militarizing. We're, you know, the Chinese, if it's like if you stand with binoculars on a building in Beijing and look out at the Pacific, oh, there's, you know, there's American submarines. Oh, they're building up Guam. Oh, they're putting in more arms in South Korea. Oh, Okinawa, American Marines are building up. So, but, you know, I'd say to the American audience, two airplanes just went down in the South China Sea, two American airplanes from aircraft carriers. And we treat that, oh, must have been an accident. I wonder why. What are you doing in the South China Sea? Why are we worried about it? Well, Taiwan. And why are we worried? My daughter lives in Taipei. I said, honey, what's going to happen? When China and Taiwan unite, she said, Daddy, my identification papers might be different colors. She said, I'm going to have the same job, same apartment. You know, China and Taiwan are economically integrated already. And this is just a balloon. See, my brother enlisted in the Marines in 1967 to fight communists. So I go to Vietnam years later and I'm like, were you fighting for communism? And the Vietnamese are like, communism, democracy? I was 15 years old. I didn't know anything about communism. I was fighting because the Americans killed my dad. So, you know, the thing, you know what I mean? We went out for communism. Now we're going out for Taiwanese freedom. It's not true. Let's, you know, let's bring American troops home. Let's get rid of these 1,000 bases and let's have— I wish Americans would just look at their lifestyle. You saw the thing I sent you. 30% of Americans said in a poll they can't afford to go on vacation. 30%. We're the number one country that is too poor to go on a vacation. 30%. The Chinese, that you ask them that question, it's like, yeah, well, maybe like 8%, maybe a few are having trouble. The economic basic quality of life— America's putting up with crime in the streets, unaffordable lifestyles, you know, high costs of food. And I go to China, the, the quality of life that I led in Asia and the quality of life that the doctor has seen and showed you, you know, we should do something about that. We can be number 2 to China. Maybe we can double our GNP. See, the idea like we're number 2, so what? Maybe we could double our GNP. China gets rich, rich, and we get rich, and we're teaming up, you know, we're in, we're in league with Russia and Iran and India. There's a lot of humans out there in Asia, and they have thousands of years of experience of having successful civilizations, and America could learn something if we had some humility. But, Dr. Oualaalou, other than that, the media is just so strong. You see a high quality of life in China, but the media is only negative about China. So what are we going to do?

Well, this is where voices like yours will have to play a much greater role. I mean, you're already doing this. I'm aware of your other engagements on different platforms, which I am very grateful that a voice like yours is out there. There will be— we will need more of James. We will need more of the logical voices that can speak the truth. Because that's the only way you're gonna— we're gonna have to push against this narrative of lies. That's the bottom line to it. That is so. Speaking of this, James, while I'm thinking about it, I want to share with you and the audience regarding the where we see things moving forward economically when it comes down to China. Look at this chart here. So, and that's in itself the portion of the Chinese the share of the pie for the Chinese economy. This is the projected nominal GDP for China. Look where it is at. And it gives you an idea that falls back to your point about where things are headed in moving forward into the— where the— why China is succeeding economically and technologically moving forward because the government is responsible for serving its own peoples. I want to ask you, James, of a major event that just took place recently, and this one has to do with East Timor. You're familiar with that, you live in the neighborhood. East Timor becoming the 11th member of ASEAN. What does it mean? How do you see it playing out moving forward?

I don't really know. I— that's, that's a stumper for me. I don't know if it has significance, uh, for, for ASEAN or, or for East Timor, but I think it's positive. That's about all I can say. How about you? You probably know more about it than me.

Well, it's, uh, to me it's a small country. Its GDP is only $2.3 billion. That's about it. 1.4 million people. Its market is very limited. You know, my rationale for thinking about it is in a way of a strategic importance. Because if you could get certain islands, because remember what we were trying to do with Papua New Guinea. And remember the first thing that the new leader of Papua New Guinea, his first order of business was asking Indian forces to leave. The island, because you can't trust the, uh, the Indian government in being part of that. That's the only way I could think of about East Timor, uh, what it's— it's the strategic aspect, because it can compete with the likes of China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and so forth. So that's the only way I see it moving forward. So the other thing I want to ask you, James, is has to do with The rare earth elements. Are you familiar with what's going on with this debate?

Yes, sir.

How do you see it playing out now that Trump has got a deal with Malaysia? I'm assuming he pressured Malaysia into having access to rare earth elements, given what the Chinese just did by restricting the flow of rare earth elements. So How do you see it playing out in your opinion?

Well, I look at this long term, like how— what— just a minute, who's running the United States if we get to 2025 and we're dependent on rare earths 100% with— from a foreign country? I don't care if it's China or Canada or whatever.

Who—

you know, the, the, the Chinese just had a, a big governing meeting, their plenum or whatever they call it. Yeah, the fourth But they produce papers, as you know, and they say, we have this goal in this year, and we're going to do this, and you can look forward to this. And they have measurable goals that they put out, and then they have meetings about those goals, and those goals go down to regional and local situations. And the Chinese know where they're going. Americans, where are you going? What's the plan? Like, what's the 3, 4-year plan? Where— show me the 12 pieces of paper you can print out right now that shows the thinking, the strategic thinking of Americans, of the American government, where we're going to go. How do we have all our pharmaceuticals made offshore? How do we have all of our rare earths that we have to import from somebody else. And then we have to have sharp elbows. Maybe we'll take Greenland. You know, Canada, we should grab it. Maybe we'll, you know, split Canada in two. Boy, that China with rare earths, you know, they can't do that to us. What? Who? You know, we have— by the way, rare earths are not so rare. It's just that they're thinly distributed and they're difficult to mine. Well, the Chinese said, yeah, we need rare earths, so we're going to do this. And they said it years ago. Now America is like, like behind. But see, I don't see it immediately. Like, what's the solution to the rare earths problem right now? I'm like, where were we 20 years ago? What are we doing talking about boys and girls bathrooms and culture wars and should boys be in sports and you know, racism and whatever. We don't— you know, what's the plan for us to survive? How about more beef cattle and agriculture and higher quality of life and safer streets and having our own pharmaceutical plants? There's all this talk about reindustrializing America. But, Dr. Oualaalou, is it happening? All I hear is they're going to invest $30 trillion and this country is coming in. And if America is doing so well, Americans, let me ask you a question. We just went up to $38 trillion, almost $39 trillion in debt. Why? If my debt is going up at a rapid pace as a personal— I'm successful. I could tell you I'm a success. My business is successful. We're borrowing money at record rates. We can't survive without borrowing. But boy, with these tariffs and America's got a hot economy, no, we're borrowing like never before. Look at the confidence in the dollar. Look at the gold price. Folks, I got into gold in 2016 when I was told it was going— the American dollar, what we're going to do is just print it to oblivion. And we're gonna, you know, never stop. And that's what we're doing. I've seen the debt go from $20 trillion to $38 trillion. I've seen my gold go from $1,000 to $4,000. Gold is not just an investment, folks. Gold is money. And the world— see, Americans not seeing this. My friends in Australia are sending me photos of people lining up to buy gold. My friend in Turkey, the Turks are lining up to buy gold. China and Taiwan are encouraging their people, buy gold because the dollar is going away. The, the Shanghai Gold Exchange is setting up vaults around the world. So right now Saudi Arabia can sell, uh, oil to China and China will pay in their currency, the yuan. But, but Saudi Arabia can take that to a gold vault in Saudi Arabia and exchange it for gold. So the Chinese are putting gold behind their money and America is not. We have no long-term planning in America and we gotta get going. You know, if we're behind the 8-ball now, what will tomorrow bring? Where's our strategic long-term planning? But, Dr., I ask you America is like the largest organization with no strategic planning.

No, we don't, we don't. Because, because, James, if you look and you've been around long enough to know, just go back about 3 or 4 decades, that's all, and think and tell me if there was ever a strategy for American foreign policy. There were none. There were none. Or at least we're only going 3 or 4 decades. And that in itself gives you an idea of what— and this is why I've been— I shared with the community yesterday or the day before the idea of what can the US and the collective West learn from the Chinese model. We're not talking about the ideology here, we're talking about the model, economic model. What makes China's economic and technological domain succeed? What can we learn from that? And to me, it's kind of common sense when they are planning 5, 10, 15 years ahead and they stick to the plan. I remember last trip that I did, I went into an auto dealer, just I wanted to see the vehicles that China is building. This is what I'm looking at, James. This is inside the vehicle. And guess how much it costs? No more than $35,000 with the, the, the, the, the, the gadgets you can even imagine into all this. And now you said to yourself, this is the reason, because an average car here in the US is about $50,000.

So you can see cars— by the way, I'm in Mauritius and the Chinese are taking over the market because I'm talking to taxi drivers, they're like It's cheap. You can get the parts. They're very dependable. They're quiet. It's a high-quality car. And I think, Doctor, what we're asking the listeners is, yeah, like, take a look at this. Get rid of this China bad or racial situation. I don't know what the block is. If China's winning, if China is making high-quality, cheap cars that the people can afford and people can afford the beef and the groceries, and they're knitting the cities together and they're safe. You know, let's look at these positives and learn from Asia. But Doc, I think we have a block with Asia. I think we will only look west, we'll only look to London and Paris, and we, you know, we won't humble ourselves to look at Asia. But Asia has been the boss for most of civilization. And anyway, that's— see, I, I, I mean, I look at you in China and it's like, I want all your listeners and all their families to go with you and to see for themselves the quality of life that I have lived in for the past 15 years in Asia. My daughter in, in Asia is leading such a high quality life and she compares it to her friends in Brooklyn. And there's no comparison. So I'm arguing, I'm not trying to dump on America. I'm saying, America, let's get going. We could change this around in a generation, but we're not going to change it with the short-term, let's make a deal and, you know, we'll do this. And no, no, no, no, no. What's the plan, man?

Yeah, that's the point. And exactly, you see this not only here in the US, you see it also in Europe as we speak, because Europeans are also going the wrong— it's going down. Exactly. Because as I called it, a slow collapse. That's basically what it is because of their own choosing. So to me, the idea is just to think about— and I'm very glad you had time for us here, James, to really— those voices of truth are very important. You know, and, and, and that's how we're gonna push against lies and allow people to see the truth and reality as is, so they can— their life will improve, because that's the whole purpose of it. So before I let you go, James, I'm gonna give you a last word. And by the way, just to let the community, uh, we're gonna have James for part 3. There is another aspect he wants to talk about. We're gonna do this in about 2 or 3 weeks. James and I will coordinate, and I look forward to that conversation again. So, but before I let you go, James, I want you to have the last word. What, what, what should we expect? What, where do you see things moving forward, and what can my community learn from what's going on?

Well, I'd like to make 2 points. Number 1, my book Precious Freedom, I think it's an important read because you see the things that, like gold, like inflation, like the, uh, uh, going off the rails with the military that isn't winning. All this stuff started in the 1960s, and I documented in Precious Freedom, and I document that there were Americans who were warning that we're going to go off the gold standard, that we can't afford this war, that the strategy is not right, that Ho Chi Minh is going to win. And it's echoes of today. We cannot fight China. We're going to bankrupt ourselves if we try it. It's, it's a loser from the beginning. We should withdraw from that thinking, number one. So that's my book, Precious Freedom. The other point I'd like to make is this is a lucky community if you're following Dr. David. I would not miss any of his shows and the way he is not just telling you the truth. He's not telling you a bunch of philosophy from his head. He's taken us by the hands and shown us the world. So I want to thank you for letting me be part of your truth-telling, Dr.

Of course, it's the pleasure is mine. And on behalf of the entire community, we truly appreciate you and say thank you. And look forward to next time. So you take care, James.

Yes, sir.

Bye-bye.

Bye-bye.

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