[Ludepress] 9/15/2026 [ludepress.com]

This episode focuses on the clashes at the White House press briefing, Trump's fierce resistance against the AI regulation conspiracy, and the latest massive natural gas deal signed between the U.S. and China. Attorney General Todd Blanch revealed at the White House briefing the negligence and new suspicious points regarding the FBI's handling of the 2024 assassination attempt on Trump. In response to the AI regulation and joint U.S.-China control proposals pushed by far-left Senator Bernie Sanders and tech giants, Trump fired off multiple tweets denouncing them as a 'world-destroying hoax' and a 'pro-CCP conspiracy,' emphasizing that the U.S. must never lose the AI race to China. Additionally, the program disclosed the inside story of the CCP 'kneeling' to sign a 2.5 million-ton U.S. natural gas deal on the eve of their visit to the U.S.

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Hello everyone, welcome to today's September 15, 2026, Lude Media Dr. Yan's program. We have brought you a wealth of content today; there is just too much to cover, it's endless, and it's truly fascinating. It's a pleasure to meet with you all every day.

First, let's take a look at the press briefing held at the White House today by Attorney General and newly appointed Press Secretary Todd Blanch. Why him? Because the previous female press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, has gone home to take care of her children. She has two kids, and the CCP really claimed, 'Oh, she couldn't stay with Trump,' which is absolutely not true. She is very capable, and she returned to work shortly after giving birth to her second child, working at such high intensity. You can see how capable she is, and her wanting to go back to take care of her children is perfectly understandable. Americans have faith and place great importance on various family relationships; taking care of children is her responsibility as a mother. The CCP went on a crazy rant and smeared her. Now you see her returning to her duties as a mother, and as for the White House press secretary, President Trump has come up with a new strategy: until a new suitable press secretary is found, these cabinet-level officials will take turns serving as the press secretary. So today, it was the newly appointed Attorney General, Todd Blanch.

After Todd Blanch arrived today, he certainly engaged in a war of words with the media. But in the end, he couldn't help but remark, 'Oh, it's truly incredible that Karoline Leavitt could do this job for so long as press secretary.' He said, 'I'm done today, I finally finished this shift. I spoke for ten minutes longer than scheduled, and I'm sorry you are all sweating, but actually, I'm not that sorry.' What does that mean? It means, look, I made you fake news media sweat; although I wanted to say I'm sorry, you deserve it. And he expressed that Leavitt performed really well. So you know that the CCP seized an opportunity to spread rumors, which is extremely disgusting.

Todd talked about many things today. He mentioned something very important, especially regarding the perpetrator who attempted to assassinate President Trump at his campaign rally in 2024, which resulted in injuries to President Trump's ear and casualties among innocent civilians. Regarding the investigation, Todd revealed a new, heavy-hitting point today: he said that the FBI during the Biden era actually botched the handling of the assassination attempt on Trump. He said that the assassin, Thomas Crooks, was active, and he claimed that the FBI leadership in the weeks and months leading up to the assassination attempt failed to fulfill their duties in protecting Trump, who was a presidential candidate. He said they should be investigating this now. He believes that the high-level officials within the FBI under the Biden administration did not fulfill their duties to protect Trump during his presidential campaign. So he said this matter is currently under investigation.

Moreover, Fox News also reported today that it has been officially confirmed that regarding Thomas Crooks, the man who attempted to assassinate Trump, he died later, he was shot. Then his body, at the time, had cremation fees paid by an anonymous donor. This is very strange because when looking back at it now, why did this assassin have an anonymous payment for his cremation? And there is another point that is very, very suspicious: Crooks had never reported using an alias called 'Bobado' during his lifetime, and he used this 'Bobado' alias to receive suspicious packages before the assassination attempt. There is no more specific detailed information out yet, and it has already been handed over to the Senate. What is known now is that there are some newly unearthed suspicious points, and these clues or intelligence have been handed over to the Senate.

Next, we look forward to finding out what is behind that attempted assassination. We all know it couldn't just be this one kid, it's too coincidental. Do you remember why he was able to climb onto the roof? It was because the Secret Service agent in charge of the drone happened to be a newcomer with no experience, and the drone wasn't working well, and he didn't know how to use it. In short, it was very, very, very coincidental that there was a blind spot on that roof, and this kid climbed onto it steadily and accurately to shoot at President Trump. So, by the grace of God, President Trump was fortunately only injured in the ear, but a firefighter who was protecting his family was unfortunately shot and killed on the spot. So this is not over. Today, the Attorney General mentioned this matter during the press briefing, saying that the FBI at the time was negligent, and it feels like there will be many things that can be dug out.

Then, the Attorney General specifically mentioned the AI issue today. Speaking of this AI issue, look, the socialist, extremely left-wing 'good' senator, Bernie Sanders, announced that he would jointly introduce a bill next week with Congressman Greg Casar to permanently ban the development of artificial superintelligence. Sanders equated artificial superintelligence with nuclear weapons, saying it poses a threat to humanity and that the U.S. and governments around the world must take immediate action. From his far-left anti-war stance, we can understand how his logic is derived, but this is absurd. When humanity moved from an agricultural society to an industrial society, all weapons were upgraded, and transportation tools—not to mention anything else—once cars existed, they caused many deaths in traffic accidents, and cars could also be used as weapons and developed into armored vehicles. If you go back to that era, if someone said that because of this, we cannot let the agricultural society enter the industrial society and must permanently ban its development, don't you think that's absurd? And when the industrial society entered the information society, you said there was the internet, and it became easier for terrorists to do things, and there were hackers, so we must permanently ban the development of the internet—how is that possible? This kind of proposal is clearly extremely ideological and completely stands in opposition to the historical process.

But you have to know that Sanders used to hold the banner of caring for the American working class and the poor, but now, I don't know if it's because of his age or what, he is becoming more left-wing to the point of being jaw-dropping. For example, that DSA pushed by the CCP, what progressive Democrats, what democratic socialism, is equivalent to the American Communist Party, a replica of the American Comintern, that...

Sanders is also fanatically supporting it. Now, with this artificial intelligence, anyone with clear eyes can see that since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) cannot catch up to U.S. AI right now, it is frantically trying to hold America back. While the U.S. wants to build AI data centers, the CCP either manufactures protests like it is anti-war to stall America's progress, or frantically builds data centers inside its own country. When the U.S. does AI research and development, the CCP cannot catch up even after stealing, cheating, and plagiarizing, so it tries to find ways to obstruct America's process. It is just like that elementary school math problem about the inlet and outlet pipes: if my inlet pipe doesn't work, I'll make sure your outlet pipe discharges more. Then, look at how Xi went to the BRICS summit and acted all high and mighty, actually saying, "Oh, we must develop AI together and do this and that," and then trying to push AI using low-cost open-source methods, just like selling cheap socks in Yiwu by dumping them at low prices.

Then, this incites the pro-CCP extreme leftists and those whose minds are unclear. As everyone knows, in Silicon Valley, regardless of which tech giant you look at, aside from those infiltrated or influenced by the CCP, there are very few with a truly clear head. We are not saying they are incompetent, but rather that their environment has been deeply cultivated and penetrated by the CCP for decades—whether from the perspective of investment, IT development, or the human sea of labor, the CCP has deep roots in Silicon Valley. Therefore, when figures like OpenAI's Altman and Anthropic's Dario jump out now—you can't necessarily call them pro-CCP, and you have Musk, Jensen Huang, and all sorts of other double agents and moles playing various roles, blowing winds toward political correctness and ideology from all directions. So now you see Sanders pop up saying this should be permanently banned from development. And over there, OpenAI's Altman says that if this Trump-Xi summit can bring them together to talk, reach an agreement on the peaceful development of AI, and jointly and responsibly regulate it—with China and the U.S. regulating this AI together—then he thinks both Trump and Xi Jinping should win the Nobel Prize. Furthermore, it is rumored that Altman's proposal was immediately echoed by Musk, who said Musk strongly supports Altman's proposal.

Just imagine, if Xi can sit down with Trump to talk about this, and once they talk, doesn't it become like the U.S. military being bound by the CCP using unrestricted warfare? Especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, we often told everyone: why did the CCP wage this unrestricted warfare, why did it wage unrestricted biological warfare instead of traditional biological warfare? The main point is to prevent the U.S. from reaching a level where the military can intervene. It ties your hands and feet so that everything seems natural and just a social problem, and then it creates all sorts of chaos without any bottom line, disintegrating you and ultimately destroying you. So it is very obvious that the same goes for AI. Take Anthropic's Dario, for instance; he is definitely not pro-CCP because the CCP dislikes many of his remarks in this regard. But this time, look, he was also fooled into coming out and saying that we must make a full commitment to new safety measures because they feel AI is getting more and more dangerous, requiring independent personnel, meaning third-party evaluations, and so on. Dario also proposed other ways, such as negotiating with the CCP, having all countries control their own AI development, and considering how to coordinate through dialogue, mutual restraint, democratic coordination, global coordination, striving to coordinate with authoritarian governments, and internal self-regulation and monitoring. All these sound correct, but let me ask you: how can you guarantee that those doing these third-party independent evaluations, regulations, and coordination, and those signing with you, don't have an ulterior motive in their hearts? You do it transparently, but after I engage in black-box operations and catch up with all my might, I'll play you to death. Isn't this just like the cover-up of tracing the truth throughout the entire COVID-19 pandemic? COVID origin tracing has only just reached the point where Fauci lied, and Daszak and Shi Zhengli colluded—it hasn't even reached the stage where we actually open the CCP's labs and drag them all over for trial. Now you are once again in such a rush to slap a fact-check on AI. Isn't this just the CCP pulling one ineffective trick after another? First, they got people like Jensen Huang and Musk to pave the way, saying things like "developing open source, this matter cannot be blocked"; a while ago they said open source cannot be blocked and we must work together, that this thing must be open-sourced like science, desperately whitewashing the CCP. And now they are pushing this third-party team, fact-checking, internal regulation, and censorship. If we really follow this routine, the idea sounds good, but by the time you build it, won't it just be another WHO helping you review things, followed by internal political correctness? Just like Google: as long as it's something the Chinese government said, in its citations, Google's free, most basic version of AI will tell you all about it in a seemingly logical way just because it's a government, so I accept it. But when it comes to the U.S., it knows to flip back and forth and look at it from all sides because this is a transparent society, a mutually regulated society, where you can say anti-U.S. things, but saying anti-CCP things cannot be touched casually—it's politically incorrect. And just like the COVID origin tracing back then, once internal censorship finishes reviewing it, if they say you aren't allowed to talk about it, you can't talk about it; you can't talk about the dangers of the vaccine, you can't talk about it coming from a lab, and weaponization is simply an unspeakable conspiracy. Just tell me, how are these few rules any different from that? It's just old wine in a new bottle! Once all of this is done, the CCP will be overjoyed; even if it can't catch up to U.S. AI for a moment, sooner or later there is a way to undermine your foundations, and at the very least, it ties America down first.

Therefore, today, during the press conference, the Attorney General directly addressed this issue. Someone asked him about AI, and while the Attorney General's words seemed to be aimed at Sanders' call for a permanent ban, they actually share the exact same essence as what we just discussed. He said: "Every single Democratic senator, after maintaining a strange silence for months, suddenly rushed to the microphones to talk about AI. The timing of this arrangement is entirely designed to influence the midterms. This should not be the driving force behind our decision-making regarding AI. We must never lose the AI race to China." In fact, wise Americans online who have opened their eyes and now possess a strong national security mindset have also seen through this: the ones demanding regulation are precisely the pro-CCP Democrats, enterprises with CCP backgrounds, or these individuals. To use Trump's words, when these enterprises themselves suddenly demand stricter regulation of themselves, there is inherently something fishy about it, isn't there? Including the fact that, of course, the Trump-Xi summit will definitely discuss AI topics, and the media now says it's expected that Xi Jinping will soon come and talk about AI. How could they not talk about it? Anthropic's report stripped away the underpants of China's AI under Xi's leadership, and the examples in there are simply hilarious. No matter what people are doing, they go and ask AI, and then they expose all their details for reverse input into the U.S., as if they're afraid the U.S. doesn't know what you're doing. They will definitely talk about it, and specifically about how your CCP country steals U.S. data, how you distill models, and how you engage in vicious competition—that will definitely be discussed. But you say, just to sit down and talk about how to regulate, and then with such grand benevolence, as long as you, the U.S. and China, Trump and Xi Jinping, sign an agreement promising joint regulation, you can get a Nobel Prize—it's really hard for us to understand how these tech giants can be so naive. You actually believe a promise given to you by Xi? This looks like they haven't caught COVID enough times yet.

Look at what Bessent said, saying there is no need for such large-scale regulation, legislation, or prohibitions; these companies can handle these things themselves. If they really can't, well, today Bessent was at a House hearing and specifically addressed this issue. Bessent said that whenever they want to, they can stop their own progress at any time. Meaning if these AI companies don't want to do it anymore, you just stop, you can stop at any time. You don't need to create some global regulation or internal social legislation here. Doing that is like just discovering and inventing a car, and then realizing that when driving this car in the future, if the brakes fail, or it leaks oil, or a tire blows out, it might cause a car accident, so you'd rather never drive a car again, never use cars again, or immediately make someone watch you while you drive. And who is the person brought in to watch you? Your opponent, your enemy. The moment you start driving—well, good for you—when your enemy is chasing you in a car, the moment you try to drive, your enemy directly gives you a third-party regulation saying no, you can't drive now. That is simply waiting for your enemy to openly and cleanly crash into you and kill you, isn't it just that kind of game?

So Trump came out, especially yesterday when Trump picked a very wise timing—a brilliant tactical move—when Jensen Huang was attending a public event, Trump called his cell phone, grabbed Jensen Huang, and Huang was forced to stand on his side and say: "Oh, AI is not that threatening." That's because Jensen Huang sells chips; if AI stops being developed right now and gets restricted, then his

From his personal perspective, Jensen Huang is also facing a dilemma regarding the export path of Nvidia's chips. Therefore, you can see that at that time, Trump put Jensen Huang to work again, and then directly stated: "You people don't play games with me like this; if you don't develop, China will catch up with you in a year, and then in the second year you won't even have to think about it—once the CCP catches up, the CCP will finish you off first." So it is very obvious here that the CCP is stirring up trouble, but Trump has already seen through it. Moreover, the Trump Administration—from Bessent's to the Attorney General's remarks today—makes it clear that they will not be led around by the nose.

Look, Trump posted a flurry of tweets yesterday talking about this AI regulation issue. Right in the middle of all this, Trump directly stated that a malicious conspiracy targeting AI and AI data centers is underway, and the only one happy about it is the CCP. Let's go through them one by one. Trump posted: "The only control or guardrail AI needs is a strong and extremely smart (high IQ) president, and the United States of America is more than well-equipped in that regard. The Trump administration has stopped bad things, or potential bad things, from being done by AI insiders, like Dario from Anthropic, who is currently acting like a perfect little angel, and we will continue this kind of regulation. We have massive criminal and regulatory authority over these companies. The only one happy about this—there is a malicious conspiracy going on against AI and data centers, and the only one happy about it is China. Whoever wins AI wins the future, and we are leading over China and everyone else, and will maintain that advantage. Conspiracy theorists, traitors, turncoats, and leakers beware." And look at the ending tag again: "Thank you for your attention to this matter." I always say Trump's slogan is sent to the CCP; every time he adds this phrase, the target behind it is the CCP.

Hasn't Trump figured it out by now? He also knows that we talk all day about Xi's low IQ being a fatal flaw. Look at Trump saying that AI doesn't need to follow that rhetoric—he initially said the only control and guardrail needed is the president, a strong, extremely smart, and high-IQ president. Isn't that equivalent to directly rebuffing OpenAI and Musk's so-called talk that China and the U.S. need to sit down together, that the two major powers must be responsible, and that your leaders must sit down and negotiate? Trump's meaning is that you only need a capable and high-IQ president in charge; you don't need to drag the CCP into the pillar industries of your future domestic development under the guise of making America great again, entering the 6G era, and building the infrastructure for the AI era. For over a year, what President Trump has been doing is completely cutting off the CCP from American industries, the higher the tech, the more isolated. Isn't this equivalent to these people desperately dragging the CCP in and giving Xi a seat at the table? That's why Trump said you don't need this, we are more than equipped right now, and what you need is an extremely smart (high IQ) president to manage this. Doesn't that mean, what's the use of picking a pig-head? No capability, cowardly to the core, both evil and sinister, and extremely unintelligent. Trump's statement corresponds to the fact that he is a strong, extremely smart, and high-IQ president, while Xi is that cowardly, spineless, and extremely foolish (low IQ) chairman. The contrast is very neat; can't you understand this?

So I think what we discuss in our program every day can summarize all the reports on what the CCP is secretly doing with AI, pick out typical examples, and make them public, so that the CCP completely loses face. After boasting for so long about their Kami and DeepSeek, it turns out that their Kami and DeepSeek are not only lagging behind, but they also directly steal others' knowledge and have made a habit of it—secretly outsourcing everything and querying American AI, only to be caught red-handed by the U.S. Aren't all those self-promotional propaganda pieces and various videos made by the CCP's big idiots before just a waste of money? Now everyone knows who is actually good at AI. If you were good at AI, shouldn't it be Anthropic secretly querying your AI, asking Doubao "how President Trump should make decisions in Iran," and then asking DeepSeek "how to go to Venezuela to capture Maduro"? Isn't the difference in capability obvious?

So Trump's point is: don't play these games with me. And look at what Trump said: we have massive criminal and regulatory authority over these companies. Once you drag the CCP in, with all those civil-military fusions, various agents, and terrorists that the CCP plays with you—what has the U.S. been doing over the past year and more through various executive orders, legislative cases, and escalating actions? First, because U.S. strategy has changed, in the matter of destroying the CCP, it has already unleashed the potential of its military, even ready to go to war at any moment. Otherwise, why would think tanks like the CSIS already be discussing whether, if we go to war with the CCP using traditional missiles and following traditional combat methods, there would be any surplus left after a month? They are already discussing these things. Not to mention the renaming of the Pacific Command for combat readiness, the renaming of the Department of War, and the continuous tightening on all fronts. First, preventing enemy infiltration; second, catching internal agents; third, steadily moving forward with the sole aim of destroying the CCP. In this process, the U.S. has actually polished and sharpened all its military, judicial, and regulatory weapons. You AI giants—you cannot think that because you hold an AI company, your right to speak now exceeds U.S. national security. You just sit there in Silicon Valley, thinking about investments, thinking about development, thinking about universal love, and then it sounds reasonable: "We truly need global cooperation." And you slip right back into globalization, dragging the CCP back in. You forget any concept of national security, and you even forget the most fundamental premise: "Communism is the greatest existential threat in U.S. history over the past 250 years." You even want to bring Xi Jinping over and give him a Nobel Prize—what on earth are you thinking?

So Trump is saying you guys are really something. I am currently stopping you from doing bad things, or unintentionally doing bad things. As for Dario, Trump is knocking him down a peg right now, which actually shows he found that this guy's mind seems unclear and needs a reminder, rather than Trump labeling Dario as an enemy. So you see, Trump's words are already very harsh, and look at this series of tweets from Trump—what did he say right before that? Let's go backward in chronological order. The so-called claim that AI is going to take over the world is nothing more than a scam, just like the global warming scam (according to that global warming narrative at the time, everyone should have died long ago, glaciers melted, and everyone drowned in the water). And he says or like the Russia Russia Russia, Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine scam, or impeachment one and impeachment two, etc., which are all tricks of the radical left Democrats who never give up but rarely win, hoping voters see the truth. So here it refers to the radical left Democrats, but behind them isn't it the CCP? The CCP is pushing this along with them. Just the radical left alone—how could there be so many geopolitical levers to pull?

And Trump said: "I am the hoax buster, and I'm here to bust yet another hoax—the hoax that AI is going to take over, consume, and destroy the world, and that robots are going to march into our cities and wipe us all out. This is even crazier than the Russia Russia Russia hoax or the global warming hoax. Thank you for your attention to this matter." He then stated: "Those who claim AI is going to destroy the world and that data centers will bring harm to your local community are the exact same people who claimed shortly ago that the world would be destroyed by climate change. That hoax didn't work out for them, so now they're moving on to the next one. These people are revolutionaries." Hearing revolution, isn't that the Communist International? But these revolutionaries are stirring up trouble for evil and bad things—so true. He said: "Soon you will find out that they are working for people who do not have the best interests of the United States at heart." Who cannot see that this is cooked up by the CCP?

Then Trump has another very long post, saying: "Regarding AI, when in commercial history have you ever seen the leader of an industry proactively ask for regulation? And once such regulation is strictly enforced, it will push them toward extinction and bankruptcy." Exactly. While you regulate here, the CCP develops a low-price open-source strategy, seizing your market using the electric vehicle and solar panel model. Therefore, these people cannot be too left-wing; once they get dizzy from being too left, it is basically self-destruction. This is cognitive warfare—subduing the enemy without fighting, the highest level of gameplay. That's why in our program we repeatedly dissect the fatal flaws of the fundamental logic within these cognitive warfare tactics. You must understand it in reverse so that you won't be wrapped around their finger.

And then Trump says, look—things like AI taking over the world are just like the Russia-Ukraine war, the impeachments, and all those other scams and conspiracies that American conspirators and perverts resort to using dirty tricks and illegal actions.

Then Trump specifically stated in this post: "The President of China just announced that China will never do anything to hinder AI and its future development." You see, Trump's regulatory sniper battle regarding AI this time—involving Trump, Bessent, the Attorney General, and the entire core staff—is all aimed at blocking and sniping at this regulation. They are not hiding it at all, nor are they beating around the bush. They directly stated that if you use the name of regulation to restrict the current development of AI, it is equivalent to handing the CCP a huge bargaining chip and paving the way for the CCP to destroy the United States. This statement has completely moved beyond any diplomatic concepts.

Moreover, this is happening right before Xi is about to visit the United States. According to the old saying, "one does not strike a person who is smiling," but Xi has already been "captured" by Trump; despite all his denials, he has no choice but to come to the U.S. Today, they even signed that massive natural gas deal—a 20-year, 30-year contract. Once you see it, you know that Xi has knelt down. Pretending to be sick, pretending to vomit, pretending to be anything—none of it works; he cannot escape it. So, under these circumstances, logically, there is no need for the U.S. to continue to be confrontational with the CCP regime these few days. You could let him come, and even if you embarrass him in public after he arrives, that would be fine. But you see, Trump doesn't indulge him. It is completely clear that while Xi is kneeling and begging, "Okay, okay, I know I must go to the U.S. to see Trump, so I beg you, Trump, to treat me better, please show mercy, I will sign a multi-decade natural gas contract with you, can you ensure I survive these few decades?" This is the calculation Xi wants to make, thinking that he is like someone visiting a house, bringing gifts first, and then arriving himself, hoping that others will be polite to him, or at least give him some face and go through the motions. But it is very obvious that Trump will not go through these motions with you. Your natural gas is one thing, and AI is another. And what kind of fantasies are you talking about? China and the U.S. sitting there talking, and after the talk, they get a Nobel Prize? Does Trump care about your prize, or does Xi Jinping really value your Nobel Prize? If you sign that thing, isn't that equivalent to selling the U.S. directly to the CCP? How is that any different from saying, "China and the U.S. sit together to talk about how to overcome the COVID crisis together"? Wasn't Trump pitted enough in his previous term? That little cold, that little cold that was supposed to end in late April, ended up making Trump—at least twice, with one time almost putting him in the ICU—get infected. Trump doesn't believe your nonsense. Trump said, since China says it won't do anything to hinder the future development of AI, don't ask me to go talk to Xi again; you are not thinking clearly.

Then he said: "Google recently claimed they wanted to build a large factory in Finland, simply because they found the U.S. licensing and approval process too cumbersome. I am very unhappy about this and hope they change their minds." Trump's point is that for a factory like the one Google wants to build now, I have no way to bring it back to the U.S. to increase American jobs, and isn't it all because of these approvals and such that you are doing? It's like California constantly shouting about being green and environmental, but they can't even build a subway or a train, and then they keep pouring money into it, with all parties making a fortune, raising a bunch of parasites, and then taking the money to further protest, further be pro-CCP, and further divide the U.S. Trump said: "AI and data centers will become the greatest economic development engine in history, even grander than oil, gold, diamonds, or even the internet. During Trump's term, he will never be stopped by this group of sophisticated destructive forces." And he added: "The only reason AI and data centers are growing explosively is that the U.S. is far ahead of all other countries; do not kill the goose that lays the golden eggs." This basically covers the series of posts Trump made yesterday, and combined with the statements from Bessent and the Attorney General today, we have summarized it for everyone, and I believe our audience understands it very clearly.

Alright, let's continue. What is the biggest show today? It is the sudden breaking news that the CCP regime has unexpectedly signed a 2.5 million-ton natural gas deal with the U.S. Of course, the audience might say, this CCP regime signing this big deal is just like the soybean agreement; what if they don't fulfill it? Yes, you absolutely have to consider that. But you also have to know that the U.S. has been played by them before, so now, you little rascal, unless you create another COVID-19 pandemic. But you must understand, first, the U.S. cannot give you such an opportunity again, and second, you must first ensure you can survive until then. Today's big deal is for a 20-year period, starting in 2030, supplying 500,000 tons of liquefied natural gas annually, saying the cumulative long-term purchase volume has increased to 2.5 million tons. Regarding this matter, like in Hong Kong, people think this is warming up for Xi Jinping's visit to the U.S. No need to be so polite; it's not about warming up anything. It's just that Xi is being coy, very hesitant and reluctant to come, but he has to come, so he has to lay the groundwork in advance, hoping to make Trump lower his guard, give him a good look, and then be able to use this to exchange for some benefits he urgently needs from the U.S. Again, he is thinking very wishfully.

Speaking of this natural gas issue, it is truly very interesting. This natural gas was originally bought by the CCP from the U.S. When did they stop buying it? Wasn't it because you said yourself last year that Trump was returning, that there would be a trade war, that he would talk to you, and then the CCP itself said, "I won't buy your U.S. natural gas anymore." And the CCP used this as a big bargaining chip last year, repeatedly boasting that if the U.S. adds tariffs to my CCP regime, the CCP will immediately add a 15% tariff to your U.S. natural gas; who is afraid of whom? And at that time, they were bragging crazily. For example, if you just find a piece of propaganda to show everyone, isn't it something like "China suspends natural gas imports from the U.S., turns to give the order to Australia, Rubio's bargaining chip is void." Whether Rubio's bargaining chip is void or not, we can't say, but we know that after you finished bragging, a year later, you have to turn back and kneel again, even if the natural gas tariff is still there, you still have to import natural gas from the U.S. I just want to ask you, why isn't the 15-year long-term supply agreement you signed with Australia, 600,000 tons per year, enough for you? To the point that you now have to run over and sign with the U.S. again? You say "liquefied natural gas should become a trade negotiation chip," you say it's a joke, now the trade war is still going on. You have to remember that it was you, Xi, who ran to Busan last year, was grabbed by the neck by Trump and dragged over, and then knelt there, promising this and that, and the fentanyl crisis dog leash was also put on your own neck, becoming a hanging noose. Then you exchanged it for a one-year period, saying you would cooperate with the U.S. So now this year, until November this year, this still belongs to the U.S.'s observation period for you. You also promised things like soybeans, promised this and that, rare earths, etc. Your so-called Rubio's bargaining chip hasn't become a joke yet, the one-year period hasn't arrived yet, and you have already actively signed it yourself during this middle period of easing, this one-year suspended sentence; who is the joke after all?

Let's just say, at that time, look at what the CCP said, right? The CCP was so powerful, because they imposed a 15% tariff on U.S. liquefied natural gas, it directly led to a significant increase in the cost of U.S. exports to China, and then led to the disappearance of natural gas shipped from the U.S. to China. Saying look, the U.S. energy dilemma is emerging, the Chinese buyers are so powerful, personally directed by Xi, directing the U.S. natural gas to be unsellable, this big game of geopolitics played by China. And even more ridiculous, they were also bragging at the time that besides Australian natural gas, what else was there? There was also Australia replacing the U.S. as the second-largest natural gas supplier. And the first? There was also Russia's pipeline gas, Central Asia's liquefied gas, and the Middle East's spot gas, a three-dimensional supply, making the U.S.'s share in China's total gas imports drop, from 15% down to 5.4%. Hey, this is called not putting all your eggs in one basket. Hey, indeed, eggs shouldn't be put in one basket, this is common sense. But have you ever thought that after you disperse them into various baskets, the baskets might be overturned? You do have several baskets, but look, let's just say, where is Russia's pipeline gas? You, Xi, with this Power of Siberia 2, you originally thought it was fine, I don't buy from the U.S., I can buy from Russia, but as a result, Power of Siberia 2, now because you are playing little tricks again, on one hand wanting to manipulate Russia, on the other hand begging the U.S., and on another hand trying to sow discord between the U.S. and Russia, you have played yourself into a trap, you have overturned the big basket of Russia's backup pipeline gas yourself. Now the Power of Siberia 2 pipeline has been renamed, it's called Baikal Power, has everyone noticed this news? I'll tell everyone about it later. Really, I feel that my logic in explaining things is clear enough, but every time I see this kind of grand diplomatic logic personally directed by Xi, I have a feeling like, I just finished sorting out the yarn for everyone, sorting it into very neat strands, and then Xi, like a mouse sliding off an oil bottle, with oil on its feet, steps on the yarn and messes it up again.

Sliding all over the place, wherever he goes, and then flapping around in a mess. And because he came down from that oil bottle and was frightened, he is there clawing and grabbing wildly, and then the yarn I just sorted out, or the yarn I was about to continue sorting, he suddenly hits it again.

Broken. You have to untangle his logic all over again. I really have this feeling, because when I watch the grand diplomacy personally directed by Xi, and then Xi's diplomatic thought, every time I see it, I have this feeling: Wow, what a bizarre train of thought, truly refreshing. As long as your IQ doesn't drop below that threshold, and your bottom line is just a bit higher, you simply cannot understand what on earth he is playing at.

You can only understand it if you realize that he is always like a frightened mouse sliding on its feet, struggling everywhere in immense terror, and then messing up this ball of yarn. Only when you see this underlying logic clearly can you understand why these balls of yarn have been messed up again, and figure out how you should untangle this ball of yarn for him next. Seriously, regarding Xi's way of playing, we really admire it. Last year, relying on his Russian daddy, plus liquefied gas from Central Asia and spot goods from the Middle East, he completely looked down on the United States. In the blink of an eye, entering into trade negotiations with the United States, he clearly thought to himself that with this move, he had won big in the trade negotiations. And the result? What came out of it was soft stomachs, princesses drinking with people in the middle of the night, drinking with that old pervert Lukashenko on a dark and windy night, being dragged to Busan to kneel personally, kneeling in Zhongnanhai to welcome Trump for an inspection, and having to rush over to the United States with his tail between his legs to see Trump. This trade war where you thought you won big ended up being welcomed right into prison. And it's not over yet. Before this probation ended, before the one-year probation period was over, your Russian daddy gave you a thorough shove straight down to the bottom of the boat, just in case that Russian daddy popped his head up and still had some breath left.

This is already—as we say, this SCO summit, seriously, Xi's ankle-slashing bargaining method—you say after you slashed, Russia turned around and was directly enraged. Putin has been dwelling on the Power of Siberia 2 pipeline, repeatedly emphasizing it, saying at the time that he was confident about talking with Xi at the SCO summit, and that there were some deepened discussions that could continue to be talked about at the Eastern Economic Forum in the Far East in early September. As a result, when Putin went to the Eastern Economic Forum, because of the direct ankle-slashing price cut Xi gave him earlier, Putin made a snap decision on the spot: no more Power of Siberia 2, forget about whatever talks there were, let's just rename it the Power of Baikal. I am telling you, behind this name, the significance is huge.

Think about this matter, let me say a word more to everyone first. Let's re-examine the timeline at that time. Although only half a month has passed, we have simply too many facts, right, so I must explain it well to everyone. Look, the SCO summit, the Power of Siberia 2, the 50 USD ankle-slashing price, compared to the 250 USD Russia wanted. And Russia didn't bother to say much to you, right? Fine, you think you're pretty hot stuff, don't you? Good, Russia completely went to the Far East Forum, changed the name, and renamed the pipeline the Power of Baikal. This implication has to go all the way back to the historical line of the Treaty of Aigun back then and the later Sino-Russian Treaty of Beijing. Everyone remembers I just told you a few days ago that before the Sino-Russian Treaty of Beijing in 1860, it laid down the ceding of that Tumen River area and Vladivostok to Russia, and then it was finalized again in 1860-something—no, 1886. And look, the Tumen River is still playing a big role to this day. In the first week of September, the Far East Economic Forum, that Eastern Economic Forum just ended, and immediately that Tumen River was opened to traffic, putting a second lock on the highway bridge, completely severing your CCP dream of turning that open sea port outside the Tumen River into your own deep-water port for submarines and nuclear submarines to freely access the Arctic shipping route. It's a head-on blow to Xi's Chinese Dream. Obviously, you have completely pissed off Russia over this gas pipeline matter.

But we didn't expect that Xi—with the logic and playstyle of a mouse with oiled feet sliding around—after playing his grand strategy out, today he turned right around and directly signed a huge deal with the United States. Of course, we say it's quite good, because since you signed this deal now, whether the CCP survives to 2030 is another matter, at least it's equivalent to Venezuela signing the contract with the US in advance four days before the end. When D-Day arrives later, there's no need to look for Rodriguez; the US can directly take it and say do you recognize this, just let us execute it like this, right? Many things have already been paved in advance, and personally paved by him. On the fourth day after the fall of the CCP, the US having long-term interests on this land is a good thing for the US, and it doesn't matter to us; anyway, you just watch how Xi tosses and turns. But for Russia, this is a resounding slap in the face. If you originally told Russia at the SCO that you wouldn't sign that Power of Siberia 2 pipeline, Russia would still respect you as a man; at least you dared to confront Russia to its face, not making people think you are cowardly, not making people think you are like a eunuch, smiling with honeyed words on the surface while being honey-mouthed and sword-hearted behind the scenes, doing shady things. Well, you didn't dare to do a single thing, and then turned around and actually signed the China-US natural gas contract right now. You even forgot that you were previously using your Russian daddy to shield yourself from the United States; now you only care about that immediate mess right in front of you. Truly, calling it short-sighted is an understatement—you can't see beyond a single inch.

Right now, anyway, because there are too many chains hanging from his neck and they are too tight, as long as he can catch a breath, he doesn't care about the long term; he has to gasp for that breath first. For instance, the most important thing right now is for Xi to guard against the US—how to minimize the probability of Xi making a fool of himself in the US and being publicly humiliated by Trump, and how to suck up to the US as much as possible, he does whatever it takes, see? Just like that, he completely disregarded his boasting last year about his three-dimensional gas network, disregarded his chips with Rubio becoming void, and immediately started kneeling and signing a new natural gas agreement. Speaking of which, what you boasted about last year—not only is your Russian daddy no longer your daddy, but your Russian daddy is now that living daddy with a wide-open mouth ready to swallow you at any moment. Where is your spot gas from the Middle East? We really have to ask. When Xi was boasting here last year about his Middle Eastern spot gas, he probably didn't expect that a few months later Iran would flip the table, start losing its ears, and after boasting for less than a year, old Khamenei didn't get the natural gas transported to the CCP before he himself vaporized, right? Along with this little cardboard box shell, what's going on with it down to now, nobody can explain clearly; it's simply a Schrödinger's cardboard box shell. Over here at the Strait of Hormuz, one-fifth of the world's natural gas itself has to pass through here, and now it basically belongs to nothing to count on. Originally, relying on Qatar, the UAE, and Oman, we thought they could vent some gas for you, but your good brother Iran tossing around to death didn't buy itself any extended lifespan, but it dragged down Xi's good friends plenty, especially Qatar, which directly halved about 60% of its exports. Not long after the war broke out, Qatar actually really thought about helping Iran extend its life; before it figured out what was going on, its own gas field was directly hit, wasn't it announced at the time that it was going in for repairs and would take a long time, at least two years, especially the natural gas exported to the CCP—is it failing to supply goods now, right? We've explained all this to everyone before. And the CCP regime has actually spent this past year and more—last March it raised tariffs by 15% on US natural gas, with a very stiff neck saying I don't want your US natural gas, I have plenty of markets—no, I have plenty of sellers, and my market is so big that sellers are begging me—that arrogant attitude has now completely become a thing of the past.

Alright, then let's look back again at the CCP regime signing this natural gas deal. How much is the actual price set in this natural gas deal? That is a good question. Because the specific transaction price is not published here, everyone should know this stuff: you can roughly calculate a baseline price. Let me calculate it for you, and once you calculate it, you'll know. When Xi turns back to sign this with the US, he thinks he is meddling in US-Russia relations, that he is utilizing the US and Russia competing to sign contracts with him, and that he is holding the dominant position in the home court. In reality, he doesn't know that what the US wants is precisely this gameplay of yours. The US knows you are out of it, knows you have no logic, and knows you are thoroughly confused. Therefore, on one hand, the US gains benefits, on the other hand, it holds leverage over Russia, and it utilizes the hatred planted between you, Xi, and Russia. I said you're making enemies, right? This hatred is so deep, plus the fact that previously you pushed Russia to act as your shield regarding pandemic origins tracing, rushing to the front lines to start the Russia-Ukraine war, unable to advance or retreat, almost driving Putin to death. And during the Wagner mutiny, you, Xi, hid in the background, calculating that Putin could just die, and if Wagner could actually win, you would cozy up to Wagner instead. I tell you, these hatreds far exceed national interests; they have been deeply embedded in the heart of Putin, that dictator. Do you, Xi, have the strong, extremely clever, and high-IQ capability to arm-wrestle with Putin? As they say in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, it's exciting sometimes, mainly when the forces are evenly matched. But if in a three-way standoff, one side is the bald eagle, one side is the double-headed eagle, and they are staring at you—a wild boar that has gone crazy and lacks intelligence—this whole thing actually doesn't have such a big predicament. Its progress mainly depends on when the two eagles really want to use their chopsticks and put you on the dinner table; they have their own rhythm.

Come on, let's calculate for everyone: after the CCP regime turned around and signed this contract with the US, this

What is the cost price? Generally speaking, how is the purchase price calculated when buying liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the United States? The US has the Henry Hub, and its benchmark price is usually multiplied by 115%, plus a fixed liquefaction fee. These are calculated together to convert it into the price per thousand cubic meters. Look at the disclosed news after the SCO summit where Xi and Putin talked about the Power of Siberia 2 pipeline: Putin wanted $250 per thousand cubic meters, while Xi's ankle-slashing price was $50 per thousand cubic meters. So, we might say that Russia's asking price seems quite high, right? Well, purely from a pricing perspective, once this batch of US LNG arrives in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), how much does the CCP actually have to pay? In short, you are unlikely to get it for $250 unless the cost of LNG drops drastically in the future. Moreover, your CCP will have to swallow back the 15% LNG tariff you already slapped on yourself—meaning the bargaining chip you used to hit Rubio and Trump is something you have to choke down yourself, and you have to kneel before the US with a smile and swallow it willingly. Even then, it is hard to calculate it below $250; at the very least, my current calculation puts it somewhere between $300 and $400 per thousand cubic meters. This is over $100 higher than what Russia asked for, let alone 6 to 8 times the price your CCP offered to Russia.

First of all, regarding the LNG contract signed with the US, it is impossible to build a pipeline to transport it. How is it shipped? It relies on maritime shipping. For instance, the contract was signed with Venture Global, which is responsible for producing the LNG and loading these goods onto LNG carriers at US terminals, primarily in Louisiana. Once loaded, it is essentially FOB (free on board) for the US side, and all remaining costs must be paid by your CCP. What does this include? China Gas has to charter ships; they load the cargo for you, but you rent the ship, pay the shipping freight, pay insurance, and face various risks along the shipping route. Then, upon arriving at the port and unloading, since this is liquefied natural gas, you are responsible for regasifying it, right? Afterward, didn't you add a 15% tariff yourself? You added it to yourself, understand? As long as you don't revoke it, you have to digest this money yourself. Tell me, how brain-damaged is that? Then, of course, the CCP says, 'Fine, after I buy it, I can also turn around and sell it to others to make a price difference.' Yes, that is one thing, but the problem is that once you buy this gas from the US, the cost itself is already high. If you resell it to others, doesn't that drive the price up another notch? The entire profit margin for you to make money is also shrinking. Based on the current US FOB price, plus shipping, insurance, regasification, unloading, storage, etc., it works out to at least over $300 by the time it reaches the hands of the CCP. Now, at current prices, assuming delivery only starts in 2030, any increase in natural gas prices by then means this cost will continue to rise. There is no way they will keep supplying you for the next 20 years at today's prices. Then add subsequent regasification, or your own tariffs, etc., and it will surge to at least $400 per thousand cubic meters.

So when you look back, wasn't Xi actually thinking about this when he went to the SCO summit to talk with Putin? We cannot say you were 100% determined to sign this with the US, because you always thought, 'If I can avoid going to the US, I won't sign with you either; if I can play Trump to death first, I won't sign with you either.' But at least Xi was pondering in his heart that he wouldn't sign with Putin because he was still stringing the US along, while not completely burning bridges with Putin and openly discarding him. He thought his strategy was very clever; actually, what he was waiting for was that if he eventually signed with the US, the US would force your Russia to back down. He wants US gas and tells the US, 'I can't keep buying from Russia anymore,' so the US and Russia start competing for my CCP, leaving you with no way to unite with Russia to destroy the CCP. Then, when you Putin still dare to beg me, I don't need my Xi to personally say out loud that I won't do this Power of Siberia 2; I will make you Putin either slash the price for me and willingly give me this ankle-slashing price, or blow the whole thing up yourself. Xi is thinking, 'Look at my grand diplomatic strategy, my leadership, how I can make both of you suffer mutual destruction without mobilizing a single soldier.' That was the calculation he was making. Why else do I say his mind is not clear? He is prone to miscalculating, especially when the thousand-day deadline is approaching, right? So you see, back at the SCO summit, he gave people such an extreme ankle-slashing rock-bottom price, and even before Putin arrived, the CCP definitely—I said at the time because the CCP is playing both sides, and because it always does every good deed on the surface while committing every heinous crime behind closed doors—the message it leaked to Putin before the SCO summit must have been, 'Oh, we won't sign with the US; we are only on good terms with your Russian father, begging Russian father not to be cozy with the US and to stand on our side. And as for Siberia, that's easy to handle; once we meet at the SCO summit, we'll sign it with you right then and there.' That is why Putin boldly released this information, and also ultimately out of mistrust, as a way to put pressure on you. As a result, look at the move Xi pulled on people: seemingly clever, but actually extremely childish. It completely failed to negotiate anything while making an enemy. Of course, looking at the Power of Siberia 2 pipeline entering the CCP, we certainly don't want to see it either. Years ago, our expert told us that once that big pipe is inserted, whenever Russia wants to grab a piece of land and the US looks away for a second, Russia will desperately snatch away the CCP's interests. That is also very upsetting. But I tell you, seeing Xi humiliate his Russian father like this, we are truly, from the bottom of our hearts, full of admiration. We are genuinely saying that on the path of the US uniting with Russia to destroy the CCP, Xi has personally tied that knot securely for the US, and it is equivalent to pointing at himself and telling them, 'None of you show me any mercy; the moment you show me any mercy, I will pull a Master Dongguo on you, a Farmer and the Snake on you, and pierce my wild boar tusks into your bodies. So if you want to hold a pig-slaughtering feast, you must band together and come at me, and absolutely do not spare any mercy for me.' That is the kind of play here.

Look at this side: everyone has already laughed at Putin's joke at the SCO summit, and then said, 'Look, look, Putin wanted $250, but China only offered $50.' The CCP's propaganda followed right along, claiming that Putin had no bargaining power whatsoever in front of China, that he returned empty-handed with zero strength, and that Xi was just too formidable. And now, they are immediately signing another long-term massive deal with the US, where a flick of the finger allows one to roughly estimate that the cost will far exceed $250. You tell me, for Russia, this is a mix of old grudges and new hatreds; this pig is afraid of living too long. In my view, Xi's grand diplomacy basically belongs to the category of being tired of living—this grand diplomacy of 'all of you come at me.' So do you think people can't see through it? This bargaining chip was sent over precisely to kneel before Trump, trying to buy some time for a breakthrough ahead of the upcoming Trump-Xi meeting and subsequent maneuvering. Look, there is another point here: deliveries officially start only in 2030. Just look at the CCP's soybean agreement: it signed the soybean agreement with you in January 2020, and right on the heels of that, it unleashed the virus upon the US, then refused to fulfill the contract on the grounds of force majeure, and still hasn't finished fulfilling that contract to this day. Last year, Bessent and Trump grabbed the back of the CCP's neck, forcing it to reluctantly sign a renewed contract to fulfill obligations, and then it frantically bought soybeans. Bessent is meeting with He Lifeng this weekend—what are they talking about? Bessent must have stated long ago: before Xi comes to meet Trump, you must first fulfill your contracts for us. Rare earths, soybeans—whatever needs to be bought must be bought, and whatever needs to be loosened must be loosened. As we were discussing yesterday, Xi's rare earth card has become the trump card again. What trump card? When He Lifeng comes over this weekend, that trump card might just get torn up and thrown aside directly, believe it or not.

And look, the CCP is also quite cunning: I will sign with you US, but I will sign for 2030. On the one hand, US production capacity is currently operating almost at full capacity. If you expect the US to export LNG to you right now, it indeed lacks the capability because the US is currently expanding the construction of these new projects. For example, the new giant LNG export project in Louisiana that the CCP signed with Venture Global this time—called CP2—isn't built yet. Because the US is currently unable to supply enough goods due to the Middle East situation, everyone is coming to the US to buy, meaning supply currently exceeds demand in the US. It has no pre-signed contracts that allow it to carve up someone else's goods for you; it simply has no surplus room to spare. Therefore, the CCP signed for 2030, by which time the CP2 project will basically be completed and can supply you. US LNG exports are projected to double by 2030.

And generally speaking, when signing a 20-year contract like this, it takes some time—you know, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has to charter ships or whatever—and it takes about three to five years from then to the first delivery. Of course, these are all objective reasons, but why was the CCP willing to kneel and sign this in the first place? More importantly, Xi was also plotting his own little scheme. "I'll sign this with you, and after 2030, if I don't buy it anymore, Trump won't even be in office by then, right? If I manage to live past 2030 and buy your U.S. natural gas, by that time maybe I, Xi, will have turned the tables, split up the United States, and turned it into my colony. Under my Belt and Road initiative, under my bondage, 'Under the vast heaven, there is no land that is not the king's land,' and by then the natural gas throughout the land will all be in my, Xi's, pocket. Do I still need to pay you money?" See? He was calculating this kind of counter-move. That is why I say that Xi calculates everything to the extreme, only to ruin his own life in the end. Of course, this is not just Xi's sole effort; this is the effect produced by Xi's far-sighted vision and ultimate authority, leading a bunch of pig-headed and dog-headed military strategists. All these guys think they are extremely smart in their calculations, but in reality, after the calculations are done, the United States doesn't care. 2030 is 2030; who can't see through your petty tricks? What Xi has in mind for 2030 is that Trump won't be in office and you won't honor the contract, while what Trump has in mind is that you, the Xi regime, are already open up, and by that time the U.S. will be in your CCP territory by day four—this is an agreement with roots planted in advance, right? Furthermore, it squeezes out Russia's Siberia Power 2 pipeline. Great, the U.S. occupies the nest, and you, the CCP, carry the burden. Russia is in no position to come and settle accounts with the U.S. right now anyway; Russia also begs the U.S., and Russia can't wait to team up with the U.S. right now to tear your pig head apart, right? For the U.S., no matter how you calculate this account, it is totally profitable. And for Russia, with new and old hatreds added together, you'll see if it doesn't clean you up. So let's be real: when Xi plays Three Kingdoms at the end, he doesn't even realize that given his actual strength, after offending both sides, he isn't one of the three kingdoms at all. He is the role where the two main parties are sitting at the table discussing how to cook this pig in multiple ways and put it on the menu.

Well, as we talk about this, let me tell you, the CCP still has a bunch of hate-mongering propaganda, which is hilarious. Look at September 2, when Putin went to the Eastern Economic Forum and directly had the energy minister announce that this would be renamed, personally finalized and formatted as the "Baikal Power," directly renaming the natural gas of the Siberia Power 2 pipeline. And he emphasized that this belongs to China, Mongolia, and Russia, entering China via Mongolia, and said this was a change made after multiple rounds of consultations. Wow, let me tell you, the CCP's petty-minded arrogance when they think they've won is vividly displayed in Xi's grand diplomacy and their propaganda. Look at their so-called "grand view of major powers and national discourse"; at first glance, it's that so-called think-tank flag, right, this semi-official game. Oh, they say Putin changing this name to "Baikal Power" means what? Oh, this reflects that after Russia's long-term cross-border energy stranded situation, it has to pivot its narrative, while the Chinese side has always been clear and pragmatic. This China-Mongolia-Russia cross-border natural gas pipeline means that you, Moscow, have needs from us, and we are in control of the entire trend. They say no matter how you change the name, right, without the Chinese side, you simply cannot realize it, you yourself cannot digest so much surplus natural gas, and you have international conflicts; what qualifications do you have to negotiate prices with me, the CCP? Their attitude is: after humiliating them by giving them this $50 price, and then seeing Putin change the name—knowing full well that Putin's anger at you is at least reflected in this name change—they still insist on packaging this whole thing as, "Right now I am pressing your head down, and if you fail to take me out within 24 hours, I've won a landslide victory." Isn't that like the way Guo Wengui used to act before he went to prison, thinking he had won completely? Just like Guo Wengui, who is already inside doing 30 years under RICO, while his little underlings are still jumping around down there; as long as the U.S. doesn't arrest them for a single day, they still feel for a single day that they've won completely. They are still holding on to those videos Guo Wengui made after we exposed his true face as Xi's white glove, back when Guo Wengui released so many so-called videos about how he was going to deal with me and Luther, doing so many live broadcasts—as if catching the two of us, killing us, and dragging us back to the CCP was as easy as pie for him, something that could be done overnight. Wang Yanping bragged the exact same way back then. Now look at who is inside? Who is inside being caught by the U.S., still trying to raise money for the U.S., and who is inside being directly thrown away by the CCP as an abandoned pawn, right? Just look at the CCP's current propaganda; as I said, if you understand Guo Wengui, you can understand Xi's gameplay. It's a mirror reflecting their shared essence.

So look, the CCP pissed Russia off here, right? We are not standing on Russia's standpoint or anything here; we don't need to stand on Russia's standpoint. The one who treated Russia as a dad back then was the CCP; no one ever asked us whether we were willing to recognize such a Russian dad, and we do not recognize it, right? And after bringing the Russian dad over, at this critical moment, you were the ones who sold out the Russian dad—the very thing the Soviet Union sold out back then. Having finally gotten close to the United States back then, you didn't take the opportunity to turn over a new leaf, and instead played both sides to eat from both plates. After playing that game, now the U.S. and Russia are beginning to join forces. Before this U.S.-Russia alliance, you were the one who pushed Russia out to the Russia-Ukraine battlefield to act as the world's number one war criminal mired in the quagmire, just to serve as your "ice sculpture company." Now that you can't handle it and realize that this U.S.-Russia alliance has mended the physical isolation you painstakingly created, right? You hurriedly jump back over to play this game, submitting a so-called big gift package of natural gas to the Trump administration, right? This can't even be called a pledge of allegiance; this is an illusory big gift package. Oh, feeling that they were originally hanging with the Democrats, hanging with the pro-communist left, and wanting to take down Trump, the Republicans, and the conservatives—well, this is what the CCP has been busy doing during the Russia-Ukraine war and in the middle of trying to take down Trump in the 2020 election. Now that they find they can't handle it, they start throwing Russia out again, ignoring the "no limits" partnership, ignoring cooperation, and boom, over here is a big gift package—signing yet another flashy natural gas contract with Trump. And as for the Russian side, lose whatever face you have left, and then on top of that, add this pile of propaganda.

First of all, the CCP has to maintain social stability internally, because although the human mines and leeks domestically have generally been brainwashed and made a bit too preoccupied to care about these things through its obscurantism tactics, people are not stupid either. Overall, as long as one's IQ hasn't dropped to Xi's level, looking at this kind of flip-flopping back and forth between Russia and the U.S. in such a short time makes it really hard for anyone to say with a clear conscience that you are wise. When the domestic basic populace also figures this out, can your persona even hold up domestically? Although we say that persona has already collapsed, right, so he has to spin this back. Look: our not signing the Siberia 2 pipeline with Russia is our country's strategic ease at the negotiating table, security structure, adherence to commercial rationality, and global parity principles. This created an unbridgeable gap with the Russian side's expectation of maintaining its past exorbitant super-profits, and we still have natural gas from Qatar, Australia, and global spot markets. Oh my god, and then including all sorts of things, look at the random piles coming out from here. And then for example, on September 12, the one I picked for you from NetEase: something like "Not constrained by Russian natural gas, the Chinese side's tough price-pressing; the reason turns out to be that the Chinese side has a greater energy trump card," right? What greater energy trump card? Isn't it just pondering in their hearts that by September 12 they had already gone to India, and seeing that going to India didn't bring any good treatment either, the next stop is likely coming to the U.S., right? This is pretty much inescapable, so the "greater energy trump card" means Xi has already prepared and is ready to sign this contract with the U.S. And then today, having signed the contract, they are at it again: "Oh, Putin has changed his tune, Putin strongly pushes Russian gas into China via Mongolia; why is the Chinese side never in a hurry?" Just listen to this: if you only listen to this, wow, then from ancient times to the present, continuing the past and forging into the future, Xi is heaven-sent sovereign number one! If Xi is truly so resourceful and strategic, how could he end up bravely sitting as the vanguard of the era, having to take the field in person himself? I remember when She Taijun of the Generals of the Yang Family went out on an expedition, wasn't that when the male members of the Yang family were almost all dead? In Chinese history, when someone who is supposed to calmly hold down the overall situation has no choice but to step out personally, that is basically a tragic story.

Because his initial intention that remains unchanged through the ages, his ultimate authority, is fixed right there—he wishes he could end up fixed in that Forbidden City, ideally with a few screws stuck in his buttocks to lock him onto that dragon throne, right? You cannot personally go and do anything. His persona—how can Xi change such a persona? It's not a matter of whether his persona changes or not; it's that even if he wants to change, his system—especially now that he has placed himself within the CCP...

The internal purges are all carried out according to his own will. Today, if he is unhappy with Hu Jintao, he has him dragged out; tomorrow, if he is unhappy with the 'nine dragons ruling the water' (the collective leadership model), he removes them all; the day after, if he thinks the Central Military Commission is unreliable or a liability, he has it dissolved and scattered so everyone can do other things. This is to prevent all the secrets surrounding Xi from leaking out all at once. You think you have a firm grip on things, and you keep emphasizing internal security and how to guard against external forces day in and day out. But the entire foundational system you have built, combined with the land of China itself, lacks true civilization and enlightenment; it has always been a soil of ignorance, autocracy, and authoritarianism. The foundation that supports you in becoming the 'sole leader' (yizun) cannot keep up with your changing persona. Isn't this what I said? You think that by suddenly switching your persona now, acting as the vanguard of the era and charging to the front—what you call 'personally leading the expedition,' 'taking personal charge,' and 'personally commanding'—you can become as charismatic on the stage as Trump, Putin, Modi, or Erdogan. Regardless of what one says, in the eyes of many, Putin has some charisma; Erdogan hasn't been in power in Turkey for so many years for nothing; and to put it bluntly, even Kim Jong Un looks more relaxed in his facial muscles when he smiles than Xi does, and he even looks quite cute, very cartoonish. This pivot of Xi's is the kind of pivot that directly cracks his own internal structure. Even if he turns around and starts trying to be the vanguard of the era, the foundation behind him simply cannot keep up.

For many years, the system Putin built has been one where Putin is always at the forefront. If one day Putin steps down, whoever comes up next will still have to be at the forefront, because in the Russian culture, the Slavic people respect the strong. Zelenskyy is the same; when the Russia-Ukraine war was at its most intense, Zelenskyy had to run to the front lines himself, running around everywhere, risking his life at any moment. But at least when he does that, his entire system is capable of supporting him. As for Trump and other democratic societies, that goes without saying. Well, after you, Xi, finish playing this game and think you have made a gorgeous turn, you start building another persona and begin to align with the international community. Let me tell you, you must at least first understand who you have provoked. You have provoked the United States, from the COVID-19 pandemic to your election interference and manipulating the election for others, to your subsequent goal of completely splitting, destroying, and communizing the United States. Your feud with the U.S. is such that Trump says you are the greatest existential threat in history. In other words, you are the greatest enemy in U.S. history that they are determined to destroy, understand? And as for your relationship with Russia, let's say, you see Russia renaming it 'Baikal Power' and you are still bragging? You really have the nerve to brag. I don't believe there isn't anyone among your 'dog-headed strategists' (cynical advisors) who doesn't understand history, but I dare say that even if there were, they wouldn't dare tell Xi. Because Xi has already acted as the vanguard of the era, personally forcing Russia to rename it 'Baikal Power.' Who would dare tell you that this is a taboo, or even that this omen is extremely ominous? Who would dare?

Let's look at Putin changing this name. Is it just as you say, that Putin is merely changing a name, reflecting a shift in narrative, while the Chinese side still controls the whole situation? Otherwise, why would I say that you have personally sealed the fate of the U.S. uniting with Russia to destroy the CCP? The name 'Baikal Power' was not chosen casually. First of all, let's say, it was initially called 'Power of Siberia 2,' right? Excluding Russia's desire to penetrate deep into China and gain a foothold early on, at least on the surface, this name made you feel that because there is a '1,' there is a '2.' Oh, this shows that Russia-China relations are good. And then, you see, '1' is something the CCP-led China really needs, and '2' is also something we mutually need. We both have this discourse power; it is equivalent to a parallel project just like '1.' But now that the name has been changed to 'Baikal Power,' what does that amount to? It's like the CCP-led China naming something 'Long March 7' or 'Long March 2'; this kind of name sounds like it has much more sovereignty and national sentiment. You know that in Russian culture, Lake Baikal is the 'Sacred Sea'; it is Russia's oldest and deepest lake, and it is also a symbol of Russia's conquest and control of Siberia. So, as the most famous Russian folk song sings, 'Glorious Sea, Sacred Baikal.' Therefore, calling it 'Power of Siberia 2' could still be a geographical term without such strong national significance. But once it is called 'Baikal,' the meaning is: originally, we could have discussed things regarding 'Power of Siberia 2,' but now that you are hitting me with this 'floor price' and making me lose face repeatedly, there is nothing left to discuss. From now on, I will be the one calling the shots. The CCP-led China keeps saying it is 'very pragmatic,' and this is a cross-border natural gas pipeline between China, Russia, and Mongolia. If you have the ability, make it only for Russia and Mongolia; if you have the ability, make sure it doesn't enter the CCP-led China. Now that Russia has changed the name for you, what is the use of being pragmatic? This is Russia telling you that since you didn't appreciate the favor regarding this pipeline, from now on, I will be the one calling the shots, and it will be a matter of me sticking a tube into your chest, understand? I tell you, if you had read these Russian books when you were a child and understood Russian culture, you would not be able to ignore the 'Baikal Power.' Listen to this name—it was previously 'Power of Siberia,' and now it is 'Baikal Power.' It is exerting force, it is being ruthless, and it is in a state where it doesn't need to talk to you, Xi, anymore. Can't you feel it?

After the name change, while the Tumen River highway was still open to traffic, Putin spoke up and told Trump directly that when we go to APEC, we must have a face-to-face talk with Xi. Think about Putin meeting Xi at the BRICS summit; that forced, insincere smile, was it that simple? And you know what, regarding this Baikal matter, let me show you a local report. This is a report from 2019, and what was it about? The CCP probably didn't report much on this. In 2019, China planned to use a company based in Daqing to package a plan to bottle water from Lake Baikal and export it to China, transporting the clean water of Lake Baikal to China. This matter triggered strong protests in the local area of Lake Baikal at the time. There aren't many local people, but tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people signed a petition collectively, to the point that the matter was directly stalled and didn't proceed, you know? Because the local people were very disgusted at the time, saying why should Chinese capital take our Russian strategic resources? Our Lake Baikal is a sacred lake, and this water resource is very important, so they boycotted it, and the matter eventually fizzled out. So, look at Lake Baikal; whether it's from the name or its essence, its status among the Russian ethnic group is different. And think about it, with the CCP-led China now having humiliated Russia and released this series of propaganda, it's not just NetEase adding fuel to the fire; it's the Publicity Department and the 'dog-headed strategists' who have to flatter Xi. Even if they know this is adding fuel to the fire and are scared in their hearts, the decision was made by Xi personally. It was Xi who went to negotiate the 'ankle-level' price, it was Xi who forced Russia to change the name and then open the Tumen River Bridge, and it was Xi who personally made the final decision to turn around and meet Trump to sign the China-U.S. liquefied gas contract. NetEase has no choice but to praise it online; Zhihu and other think tanks have no choice but to praise it; that's how it is.

Just like those 'doubao' (buns) and DeepSeek in the CCP-led China, even if they know this is wrong, they have to praise it; after all, Xi is the 'Kimura Takuya' (the idol), and they are also 'Kimura Takuya.' Xi signs a China-U.S. treaty here just to make things easier for himself in the U.S. for the time being, and the other flattering experts and 'dog-headed strategists,' for the sake of their monthly salaries, cannot sing a different tune than Xi. That is why I say that Xi's persona, the persona of the 'sole leader' supported by the entire system, cannot be transformed; once it transforms, the persona collapses.

Now I want to tell everyone what the deepest metaphor is. The name 'Baikal' is actually related to the 1869 Treaty of Nerchinsk, signed after Russia lost the war in Yaksa on the Heilongjiang border against the Qing government. Tracing back to the Treaty of Nerchinsk, that was when Russia and the Qing Dynasty were repeatedly fighting for territory. Because the Kangxi Emperor sent troops to surround Yaksa, the Russian side, which was fighting for territory, had to retreat and sign the Treaty of Nerchinsk. The Treaty of Nerchinsk confirmed the Qing Dynasty's sovereignty over Yaksa, but at the same time, because they gave up Yaksa, Russia temporarily gave up its expansion on the Heilongjiang side, but it kept the area from Lake Baikal to Transbaikalia. This is something our history books don't talk about. In the eyes of Russia, that was a temporary historical shame, but to hold onto Lake Baikal, they would rather give up Yaksa.

However, Russia didn't just retreat and leave it at that, unlike the CCP in the 1990s, which stamped and nailed down the gift of territory to the Russian side. After signing this treaty in 1869, Russia kept waiting for the Qing Dynasty to weaken, waiting until 1858. During this period, Russia fought the Crimean War against Britain, France, and Europe, and realized even more the importance of having an outlet to the sea in the Far East, and thus realized even more that it needed a deep-water port like Vladivostok and an outlet to the sea like the Tumen River. It wasn't until 1858 that Russia signed the Treaty of Aigun with the Qing Dynasty, by which time the Qing Dynasty had already begun to weaken, so Yaksa was again...

ceded back to Russia. Two years later, the Treaty of Beijing between China and Russia further confirmed that the sovereignty of Albazin was ceded to Russia, and it has been Russia's ever since. In 1886, it was further nailed down that the Tumen River estuary belongs to Russia. Until now, Xi Jinping wanted to get it back, but his calculations came to nothing, and Russia directly blocked it off by building a second Tumen River highway bridge.

Therefore, due to the gap between Eastern and Western thinking, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) country remains complacent, close-minded, and has failed to establish genuine logic. It mixes Confucian culture with communism; as soon as someone has too much logic, they easily become "counter-revolutionary," so to this day you cannot outplay Russia. In the past decade or more, Xi Jinping not only failed to strive for progress or take the opportunity of cooperating with the United States to truly integrate into Western civilization—just like Japan did back then when it "escaped Asia and entered Europe"—but Xi also failed to understand it. These so-called leaders of the CCP, on the one hand, cooperated with the United States, and on the other hand, engaged in unrestricted warfare. Zhu Rongji was touted as an economic genius, but didn't he also sign various agreements with the US first, fooled everyone to join the WTO, and then just didn't comply? Whenever you harbor this kind of mindset, you are not an organization that truly understands Western civilization or seeks evolution; therefore, the so-called geniuses, experts, and leaders within your ranks are nothing more than that.

Meanwhile, Russia, spanning across East and West for so many years, has both experience and coordination. The CCP country has been suppressed by them throughout this process while still thinking itself clever. In the long run, from the signing of the Treaty of Beijing between China and Russia to the present, Russia is still advancing according to this pace. The only reason is that the United States has prevented Russia from expanding like this here; otherwise, the land of the CCP country would have been swallowed up by them long ago. Even so, it still fancies itself playing Russia against the US one moment and the US against Russia the next, thinking it is playing grand diplomacy, befriending distant states while attacking nearby ones, using Sun Tzu's Art of War and Mao Zedong's guerrilla tactics.

Russia is now watching the project being renamed "Power of Lake Baikal," with Mongolia in between. For Russia and Mongolia to team up against the CCP is just like Russia and North Korea teaming up against the CCP; there are no substantive obstacles whatsoever.

What is even more laughable is that the CCP country has not yet quickly removed the photo of Modi holding Putin's hand with one hand and Xi Jinping's hand with the other. It is humiliated without even realizing it, and still thinks Xi Jinping looks cute and has the demeanor of a great power in that photo. Have you not looked at which hand Modi used to hold Xi Jinping's hand? Modi held Xi Jinping's hand with his left hand, holding Xi with his left hand and Putin with his right hand. Modi's body leaned toward Putin, leaning close to Putin while keeping further away from Xi Jinping. In Indian culture, the right hand is considered clean and auspicious, and handing things to elders with the left hand is called offensive; in diplomatic occasions, use the right hand whenever possible and avoid the left hand. When Modi meets others one-on-one, he always has them stand on his right side. In a situation like this where a simultaneous two-handed handshake was unnecessary, he insisted on doing it, leaving his left hand for Xi Jinping while maintaining distance. This is a very subtle humiliation of Xi Jinping.

Today I saw a video clip: why did Xi Jinping walk such a long way without an interpreter? Because after getting off the plane, he went straight by car to the venue, and his little interpreter, just like during the BRICS summit in South Africa, was blocked outside the venue. So Xi Jinping only found out at the last minute that he had to walk in by himself, biting the bullet and walking in an extremely unnatural manner. India has actually been giving Xi Jinping all kinds of humiliations, yet people are still bragging about a "China-India thaw"—they even have the nerve to brag about it.