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Chapter 1: What challenges is Donald Trump facing before his trip to China?
Furious world leaders are putting the screws into Donald Trump and twisting it before his trip to Beijing at the end of this week where he will be meeting with Xi Jinping on May 14th and May 15th. World leaders want to show just how weak Donald Trump has made the United States in advance of this meeting with Xi Jinping. We've heard from a prince in Saudi Arabia.
We've heard from President Zelensky. We've heard from members of NATO who no longer want to even hold meetings with Donald Trump anymore and push future NATO meetings until the end of Donald Trump's term. We've heard from other world leaders as well. And we've heard from Netanyahu right now who's trying to pressure Donald Trump
to invade Iran yet again and reopen hostilities before Donald Trump takes this trip to China. I want to share with you what's going on right now in this dynamic to show how weak Donald Trump is before he arrives in China. And then, of course, there is the perspective of Beijing neutering Donald Trump before he arrives there at the end of this week.
Of course, we saw Wang Yi, the foreign minister of China, meet with the foreign minister of Iran, Araghchi, last week.
Chapter 2: How are world leaders reacting to Trump's upcoming China visit?
And not only did the chinese greet the iranian foreign minister with a warm welcome frankly they treated iran like a conquering hero and china put out statements strongly condemning the united states and israel for invading iran and china made it clear that it was supporting iran and iran was a close friend the statements from iran where we appreciate china's support
of all of our endeavors politically, socially, economically, and in matters of war and peace. Yet Donald Trump's going to be showing up in China looking so utterly weak and pathetic as Xi Jinping has been helping Iran. So why don't we start with Saudi Arabia? We know previously Saudi Arabia would not let the United States use its airspace and airbase after Trump launched Project Freedom.
And then apparently Donald Trump's like, all right, I'll try to hit Karg Island once and then could we maybe use the airspace and the airbase again? And at least the public narrative is that Iran will let Donald Trump use the airbase there in Riyadh.
But what was just published this past weekend was an op-ed from Prince Turki al-Faisal, who's the son of King Faisal, who ran the Saudi Arabian intelligence agency for over two decades. Other than MBS, you don't get any more senior person than Prince Turki al-Faisal. And he wrote for Arab News an op-ed called, This is How Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Succeeded.
And what it frames this issue as is that the United States and Israel have really been the enemy of Saudi Arabia, not Iran. Sure, Iran retaliated against Saudi Arabia,
But what Prince Turkey al-Faisal says is that what Israel was trying to provoke was for Saudi Arabia to retaliate against Iran and then unleash hell in the entire Middle East, have the war spread so that there was now a war between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
where they would attack each other's desalination facilities and other petroleum facilities and crude facilities and liquefied natural gas facilities, then draw in UAE against Saudi Arabia, and then basically have this massive world war in the Middle East where Israel would try to stand back and let the Arab nations destroy themselves.
And so what Prince Turki al-Faisal says is, you know, yes, we know that Trump and Netanyahu invaded Iran, and sure, Iran then retaliated against its neighbors, which was expected, Saudi Arabia being one. But we didn't respond to Iran because we knew if we did, then it would be mutually assured destruction in the region.
if we escalated and that's when netanyahu and trump were trying to trigger the whole time a destruction of all of the arab nations and so the fact that you have prince turkey al-faisal saying this publicly that the real enemy is the united states and israel i mean it cuts against all of these narratives that actually with the abraham accords and this and that you know israel and saudi arabia will be working strongly together and that there's
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Chapter 3: What is Saudi Arabia's stance on the U.S. under Trump?
But the thing is, now Russia is refusing to return the prisoners and actually do the deal that Trump claims he got. So Zelensky is calling Donald Trump out as a terrible dealmaker. Here's what Zelensky posted. Our contacts with the American side regarding guarantees for the implementation of the arrangements reached recently and announced by the President of the United States are ongoing.
The prisoner exchange, 1,000 for 1,000, is being prepared and must take place. The Americans assume responsibility for these guarantees. Ukraine's coordination headquarters has handed over the list for 1,000 prisoners of war to the Russian side.
There was an American mediation in reaching this arrangement on the exchange, and accordingly, we expect the American side to play an active role in ensuring it's fulfilled. As our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, writes, I'm reading between the lines here that there may be some issues with Trump's big announcement on this. In other words, Donald Trump,
again showing how weak he is he said he did this deal and russia was gonna give one thousand prisoners for one thousand prisoners now putin's not following it and you see how weak donald trump is looking heading to this trip to iran so how is donald trump trying to project as donald trump's trip to china sorry donald trump's trip to china
So how is Donald Trump trying to project strength right now? Well, he has his senior officials leaking to the press about, oh, Donald Trump's going to press Xi Jinping on this. No, he's not. Donald Trump's pathetic. He ain't pressing Xi Jinping. Donald Trump's going to go into the room and go, Xi Jinping. It looks so beautiful. Xi, can we do the photo with the Chinese soldiers standing at it?
Xi, they say you're the king, Xi. So beautiful, so beautiful. You're so powerful, Xi. I mean, what do you think the guy's gonna say? The guy can barely put forward sentences. He's gonna have the makeup all over his hands and his neck. I mean, what do we think the guy's gonna do? The guy can't speak in sentences. But this is what Bloomberg reported.
Trump is expected to confront Xi Jinping this week over China's support for Iran, including oil purchases and possible weapons exports, according to senior U.S. officials. The two leaders will meet Thursday and Friday in Beijing amid tensions over trade, Taiwan artificial intelligence, and the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran.
I would expect the president to apply pressure on China over Iran when he goes to Beijing, a U.S. official told reporters in a briefing. That will not be easy. Trump will, in effect, have to ask Xi for help, which, A, is a sign of weakness, will come at a cost. What will U.S. have to give for that help? And C, what if China says no? Then the Trump summit, will it be another casualty of war?
Yeah, he's going to look absolutely pathetic right now is what's going to happen. So that brings me, by the way, to Netanyahu's propaganda interview with state regime media in the U.S., which calls itself CBS, which used to be a very strong and powerful news network, which is now state regime under Barry Weiss and the whole new regime they have there.
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