The President's Daily Brief
December 9th, 2025: China Threatens Japan With Nuclear Annihilation & Mexico’s Police Station Bombing
09 Dec 2025
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Ooh, not to alarm you, but there are 15 more shopping days till Christmas. Welcome to the President's Daily Brief. I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage. All right, let's get briefed. First up, China pushes its most extreme rhetoric yet, posting a video showing nuclear missiles raining down on Japan. And you know what?
I did not have China firing nukes at Japan on my 2025 dance card. No, no, I did not. We'll analyze the threat and what sparked it. Later in the show, a prominent Venezuelan opposition leader dies inside the regime's most notorious prison. Critics say it's another sign of how far Maduro will go to silence dissent.
And did we actually need another example or sign of the Maduro regime's habit of squashing dissent? Again, no, we did not. Plus, a deadly car bomb rocks a police station in Michoacán, Mexico, killing five. Authorities say it's the latest sign of escalating cartel-driven violence in the region. And in today's back of the brief, a troubling update from Ukraine.
The IAEA reports that Chernobyl's protective structure can no longer fully contain radioactive waste after a recent drone strike. Now, look, the PDB doesn't create the news. We just report it. All right. Today's PDB Spotlight.
We're starting things off with a development that we've been following closely here on the President's Daily Brief, and that would be the escalation between China and Japan. And it's now taken a far more explosive turn. What began as heated rhetoric from Beijing is now crossing into territory that edges, well, closer to actual conflict than we've seen in quite some time.
Over the weekend, a video began circulating on X from a Chinese military-linked account. It's not parody or satire. It's a piece of propaganda crafted with a specific message in mind.
The clip shows ballistic missiles arcing through the sky toward the Japanese islands, and then, as they fall, the familiar shape of rising mushroom clouds, city after city, in the video message from China, swallowed in nuclear fire. The video came with a message as if the visuals weren't enough. It read, quote, Japan is reviving militarism.
The Chinese PLA will personally bury this demon beneath the Pacific forever to prevent World War II tragedy from repeating for world peace for the 35 million Chinese killed and wounded by Japanese invasion. At any cost, let the mushroom cloud bloom, end quote. In case the meaning wasn't clear, and I'm not sure how it couldn't be clear, it's an explicit nuclear threat against a U.S. treaty ally.
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Chapter 2: What alarming threat did China issue against Japan?
In both cases, Chinese fighter jets locked their fire control radar onto Japanese Air Self-Defense Force F-15s. Now, radar lock, of course, is the step immediately before a missile launch. These encounters are rare and they are universally treated as hostile acts. Japan's defense ministry called the incidents dangerous and destabilizing. Tokyo lodged an official protest. Well, that should do it.
And the prime minister issued a public promise of a, quote, resolute response. She said the actions by the People's Liberation Army of China were completely unacceptable and risked triggering a serious incident. For their part, China, of course, claims that Japanese aircraft were the ones creating the danger.
According to the Global Times, Chinese officials said that during routine training, Japanese military jets repeatedly harassed the PLA Navy's training operations, interfering with China's normal training activities and posing a severe threat to flight safety.
Now, no matter who's at fault here, we now have two parallel escalations, nuclear threats in China's propaganda channels and aggressive real-world maneuvers in contested airspace. That combination should be deeply troubling for military planners in Tokyo and Washington.
Encounters like this raise the risk of miscalculation, where a split-second decision or misread warning can turn a confrontation into a crisis. And this is happening around Okinawa. That's a region that sits at the center of the U.S.-Japan security architecture. It's home to tens of thousands of American service members and major air and naval assets.
Any miscalculation in that environment carries enormous risk, not just for Japan, but for U.S. forces stationed in the region. Of course, Beijing claims Japan is to blame for the rising tensions. Chinese state outlets accuse Tokyo of seeking confrontation and abandoning their post-war pacifist posture. But Japan's view is obviously starkly different.
Their new prime minister has argued that Beijing has become more aggressive, not less, and that Japan must be prepared to defend itself as China expands its military footprint throughout the Western Pacific. So, none of this, of course, guarantees a crisis, but it does narrow the space between a warning and a mistake.
And with Japan's new leadership still finding its footing, the timing could not be more sensitive. All right, coming up next, a leading Venezuelan opposition figure dies in the regime's most notorious prison, and a deadly car bomb at a police station in Michoacán, Mexico, leaves five dead as cartel violence intensifies. I'll be right back.
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