Natalie Winters

They are so great.

We should trade with them.

I believe it was Joe Biden who wrote an op-ed for The New York Times in the early 2010s saying that China isn't a threat.

It's a rising tide, lifts all boats.

They're actually our friend.

They're not an enemy.

But now, all of a sudden, the 11th hour, all of these people are realizing what we've been telling you here on the war room for years, what feels like decades, is that the Chinese Communist Party is indeed a very serious and very credible threat.

And you're seeing that on full display right now, the way that Keir Starmer was treated when he went over there, not just the fact that he didn't even get a private tour of

of the Forbidden City that's unheard of.

They also, I think, found the only people above six feet tall in the entirety of China and made him dress up as guards when they were doing the formal procession.

So he was mogged, as the kids would say.

He looked very tiny and he was grabbed by one of the premier CCP officials and yanked over

like this and the only reason that he even was allowed to go on that trip in the first place the operative where they're being allowed is because they granted china rights to basically new much larger i'm sure great for uh for intelligence gathering purposes embassy um in the uk and in exchange he got basically nothing um and mark carney of course got i think what was it about six or so mous but i guess to get that he had to publicly show for the chinese communist party on what seems to be a lot of global stages recently

most notably calling straight out in the open for a new world order.

I believe that was at Davos.

And obviously what you're seeing going on with the Central Military Commission, with Xi Jinping purging generals, further consolidating power, showing that he is as strong as ever, but I think really quite concerning the movements that we're seeing around Taiwan, not just the

escalated intensity of the naval exercises that are going on there, but the types of people that are being installed at the highest levels of China's Central Military Commission, the vice chairman, that's sort of the second in command level, that's where we've seen a lot of the purges.

I think it's upwards of like 80%

It's wild if his generals are gone, but they're basically filling the decks with the younger crowd, which ascribes to what is colloquially known as the wolf warrior diplomacy style, which is much more aggressive.

They think Taiwan is theirs.