The President's Daily Brief
May 14th, 2025: Secret Chinese Delegation Spotted At U.S. Treasury & And Trump’s Deal With The Saudis
14 May 2025
In this episode of The President's Daily Brief: We’ll start with some cloak and dagger diplomacy that flew under the radar last month—a secret visit by a Chinese delegation to the U.S. Treasury Department reveals just how far the Chinese Communist Party will go to control the narrative. President Trump kicks off his Middle East swing with two major announcements: a $600 billion Saudi investment pledge and a $142 billion arms deal. Plus, the latest from Israel, where Prime Minister Netanyahu says the fight against Hamas is entering its final phase. And in today’s Back of the Brief—a new era of U.S.-Syrian relations may be on the horizon, as President Trump moves to lift decades-old sanctions on Syria. To listen to the show ad-free, become a premium member of The President’s Daily Brief by visiting PDBPremium.com. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of The President's Daily Brief. YouTube: youtube.com/@presidentsdailybrief Birch Gold: Text PDB to 989898 and get your free info kit on gold TriTails Premium Beef: Visit https://TryBeef.com/PDB for 2 free Flat Iron steaks with your first box over $250 DeleteMe: Get 20% off your DeleteMe plan when you text PDB to 64000. Message and data rates apply Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Full Episode
It's Wednesday, the 14th of May. 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. We'll start things off with some cloak-and-dagger diplomacy that flew under the radar. It was a secret visit by a Chinese delegation to the U.S.
Treasury Department, and it shows just how far the Chinese Communist Party will go to manage perception and try to control the narrative. We'll have those details. Later in the show, President Trump kicks off his Middle East swing with a pair of announcements, a $600 billion Saudi investment pledge, including a $142 billion arms deal. Now that is a lot of fat Saudi stacks.
Plus, the latest from the conflict between Israel and Hamas, Prime Minister Netanyahu says the fight is entering its final phase, vowing to unleash, quote, full force to finish off Hamas once and for all. And in today's back of the brief, a new era of U.S.-Syrian relations may be taking shape as President Trump announces plans to lift decades-old sanctions. But first, today's PDB Spotlight.
I want to start today's show with a story that flew under the radar late last month, but it says a lot about how the Chinese Communist Party, the CCP, operates and how it tries to control the optics. You may recall, ahead of the formal US-China trade negotiations that took place this past weekend in Geneva, President Trump said that trade talks between the U.S.
and China were already underway, and that was a claim that the CCP quickly and aggressively denied. But now, well, it looks like Trump was correct, and the CCP was lying. I know, it's hard to believe that the Chinese Communist Party would stray from the truth. According to a report from one of South Korea's largest newspapers, U.S.
and Chinese officials began behind-the-scenes discussions regarding the tariff war nearly three weeks ago. The paper confirmed that around 7 a.m. on the 24th of April, a high-ranking official from the Chinese Ministry of Finance was seen entering the Treasury Building in Washington, D.C., along with nearly a dozen staffers.
While the paper was unable to confirm the identity of the senior Chinese official, he was reportedly seen wearing an identification required for all G20 finance ministers and central bank governors participating in trade talks that were going on that week in Washington.
Adding to the intrigue, the South Korean paper said the Chinese delegation, quote, strongly blocked the press from taking photos of high-ranking officials entering the U.S. Treasury building.
The senior official, who refused to reveal his identity, reportedly went so far as to demand that the press delete all photos taken of them from their smartphones, saying, quote, we have no authority to block the freedom of the press, but we have the right to refuse to allow our personnel to be photographed, end quote.
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