Tom Bilyeu
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This is just Xi doing more purging.
Other people are like, whoa, they've arrested thousands of people, including these generals, including their families.
So it's unclear at this time what is actually real.
But these reports frame it as part of Xi's ongoing efforts to consolidate control and root out disloyalty in the People's Liberation Army.
Now, for anybody keeping score in China, you will know that you had Mao, a horrible Chinese
destructive evil figure that killed tens of millions of his own people would make light of it.
I think he killed his son and his wife or sent them to die is probably a more accurate version of this.
Like this was just a very bad dude.
And then you had Deng Xiaoping, who is the like when you really think about China's miracle about using the free markets to pull so many people out of poverty.
It was Deng Xiaoping.
Now you've got Xi Jinping, who is more Maoist in his tendencies.
So he's trying to consolidate power.
He's violating a lot of the norms that Deng Xiaoping had put in place.
And he's going back to more of an iron fisted rule in the way that Mao did.
So
knows where this is going to go but as new details emerge from official chinese statements or even just stuff corroborated by multiple high credibility sources uh we'll keep you guys updated things could shift but right now the violent coup narrative uh is being amplified all over social media but i would read that as speculation rather than actual journalism but they're um what'd you say the keys jingling somebody says something about jingling
It's like, yeah, these are the, was it LeBron?
You've got the noises coming out that tend to be a little bit early and then call it two months from now, six months from now, something like that.
Then we'll start to see like the official impacts of whatever's happening.
However, if he's Mao in nature,