Mike Adams analyzes China's strategic recalibration against alleged U.S. Navy piracy, arguing that American bullying accelerates petrodollar decline as nations pivot to the yuan. He details China's energy resilience through 30% domestic crude production and massive renewables, contrasting this with U.S. operational failures like non-functional toilets on carriers. The discussion covers China's rapid advancement in two-nanometer lithography and drone warfare, rendering traditional aircraft obsolete while warning against proxy wars in Taiwan. Adams concludes by urging de-dollarization via physical gold and silver investments to survive engineered scarcity and currency collapse. [Automatically generated summary]
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Strait of Malacca Tolls00:14:44
All right, welcome.
This is Mike Adams here with an analysis of China and, well, in the context of the current war, U.S. war with Iran, and what China is doing and why and what it is likely to do coming up.
Now, as background, I just completed an interview with Eric Young, who is a Chinese citizen living in Hong Kong.
And he's a great guy, by the way.
I love his posts on X, and I've heard him in other interviews.
He's an advocate of gold and silver.
He's also very successful.
Business person, retired now, but with a history of a lot of success in manufacturing.
And he travels routinely to cities in China, in mainland China.
So he's back and forth between Hong Kong and I guess maybe Beijing and some other cities.
And also his family, he has relatives from Taiwan, where I lived for a couple of years.
And of course, I'm very fond of Taiwan and the Taiwan people and the Chinese people in general, because I've grown to respect how innovative and productive and disciplined they are.
And so I want to have a quick discussion here about where I think China is going, especially in the context of this war.
Now, I asked Eric Young, and you'll be able to hear that interview at brightvideos.com, I asked him what he thought China would do if the U.S. begins interdicting ships, tankers in particular, that are headed for China.
Because China does need to import some amount of its oil, even though it domestically produces, I think Eric said, about 30% of the oil that it needs.
It produces it domestically, it has its own refineries, etc.
But it still needs to import oil, although China has very large oil storage in place, and China also has a very diverse list of countries from which it imports oil.
But China doesn't want to see tankers interdicted and pirated by the U.S. Navy on the high seas.
China needs to defend its routes and its trade agreements with other countries like Iran.
In fact, I don't know which official said this.
Maybe it was a Chinese foreign minister.
But somebody said recently, some official said that the U.S. should not interfere with China's trade agreements with Iran.
And that seems reasonable.
But Trump is not being reasonable.
He's like, no, we're going to screw with your ships.
So what Eric told me.
Is that in his view, although neither he nor I are, we're not military people, so this is just our best guess, or his best guess, he said he thinks that China will probably end up having naval escorts for the tankers.
And then I asked him a follow up question about, well, could that cause escalation with the US Navy?
And he thought no, he thought that that would probably just send a message to the US Navy that this is hands off.
Like, don't mess with these tankers because we are escorting them.
And yeah, probably he's right.
I hope he's right about that.
And that makes a lot of sense if you're the U.S. Navy.
When your toilets don't even work, you know, and your ships catch on fire spontaneously, you probably don't want to provoke a war with China, especially when I think it was Pete Hegseth himself before he was the Secretary of War.
Was it Pete or was it Rubio?
One of our officials said that China could sink all of our aircraft carriers in, what was it, 30 minutes, you know, because of the hypersonic missiles and ballistic missiles, etc.
Not that China's looking to do that, but.
They could, you know?
So you probably don't want to pick a fight with the largest navy in the world, which China is the largest navy by number of ships.
Not necessarily the most capable ships.
I think U.S. aircraft carriers are more advanced aircraft carriers, but China has a larger number of ships, right?
And not really any aircraft carriers that are battle ready.
But they don't need those.
And.
You know, the war with Iran has kind of proven that the whole aircraft carrier concept is obsolete at this point.
The future of warfare is going to be more like drone carriers, drone carrier ships, and missiles and long-range missiles that can hit, you know, any ship anywhere on the planet.
That's clearly where things are going.
And Iran has proven that the U.S. Navy doesn't have the ability to even get very close to Iran.
That's why the Navy has to back off hundreds of kilometers away.
From the southern coastline of Iran.
That's why the Navy is not in the Strait of Hormuz, because it wouldn't survive being in the Strait of Hormuz.
So China's got a big Navy.
China's got a lot of ships.
China has a lot of technology.
And if they start escorting their tankers, then probably the U.S. will choose to harass somebody else.
And isn't that interesting about what that means for the world?
Because if our world becomes a place where Well, let me back up.
See, for decades, the U.S. Navy sort of secured all the trade routes on the planet.
You know, the Navy was kind of the global police force on the water, you know, the deep blue police.
And they would sail around the world and, you know, intimidate anybody that got out of line.
And the Navy would make sure that the Panama Canal was working and the Suez Canal was working and the Strait of Malacca is working and, of course, the Strait of Hormuz because the entire.
U.S. Navy, Fifth Fleet headquarters right there in the Persian Gulf.
So that was the way it worked for a long time.
The issue, though, is that the U.S. began to really abuse that power, especially under Trump.
The U.S. went from the world's police officers to sort of the world's terrorists, I guess, the world's bullies.
Like, we're going to bomb you if you don't do what we say.
And then we're just going to bomb you anyway because we want to end your civilization.
That's an actual quote from Trump.
So the U.S. Navy is not out there to enforce some kind of freedom of navigation, as they often say, or fair rules for trade and safe passage for everyone.
Those days are over.
And now it's collapsing to an entirely different environment where if you're a country like China or Russia or whoever, and you want ships to be able to have safe passage, or think about the UK too, right?
They need to import gas from the Persian Gulf.
You're going to have to send some of your naval vessels to escort those ships.
And if you go through the Strait of Hormuz, probably you're going to get some rockets fired your way by the Houthis also.
If you're the UK, this changes everything.
And I forgot to even mention that, according to news reports, Indonesia has announced that they're going to impose fees on ships that are traveling through the Strait of Malacca.
So, Indonesia, and by the way, if you don't know where the Strait of Malacca is, look at a map, folks.
You're going to need to know this stuff.
You need to know where all the straits are and all the canals and everything.
Because it's routes and resources, it's geography that determines much of history, especially right now.
So look it up, find the Strait of Malacca, and you'll see that it's adjacent to Indonesia, which has the dominating power over the Strait of Malacca.
Well, Indonesia was looking at Iran and seeing that Iran's going to charge a toll through the Strait of Hormuz as a form of war reparations because they took so much damage from the U.S. bombing that Indonesia is like, well, we're going to charge a toll.
Now, can they do that?
I suppose if they can credibly threaten those who don't pay the toll, which probably isn't very difficult, as we've learned from Iran, is like all you have to do is launch a couple of drones out there, set a couple of ships on fire, and you're like, hey, everybody's going to pay the toll now.
The thing about the Strait of Malacca is you can go around it with a lot lower cost than, let's say, sailing around the southern tip.
Of Africa.
You know, so not being able to use the Suez Canal is a huge deal, whereas not being able to use the Strait of Malacca is not nearly as huge of a deal, but it's still a deal.
You know, it's probably worth.
A few hundred thousand dollars of savings.
I'm just guessing because a lot of these tankers, you know, the rates for these tankers could be a hundred thousand dollars a day or more.
Some of them now are like four hundred thousand dollars a day.
That's yeah, that's expensive.
And so, if you lose a day by having to go around the Strait of Malacca, you know, sailing south around the whole thing, then you know, if you lose a day, then you lose a few hundred thousand dollars.
So, maybe those ships would.
Or the ship owners or whoever, the transport companies would say, yeah, it's worth paying, I don't know, $50,000 to use the Strait of Malacca.
So we'll just pay the toll and save that money on the transit time.
Maybe that's going to happen.
I don't know.
But the U.S. Navy, its days of policing the whole world and all the sea routes and everything, that's done.
That's over, folks.
And also, by the way, the U.S. Navy, I don't remember what fleet it is.
But whatever fleet is sailing around Taiwan all the time and sailing through the Straits of Taiwan, it's very clear that that's not going to be enough to protect Taiwan against China if China ever wanted to do something like to forcefully move on Taiwan.
The U.S. Navy has no capability to defend Taiwan or Japan, for that matter, or South Korea, as is becoming apparent.
I'm not saying that China would.
Use military force to move on Taiwan.
Probably they're going to have a peaceful unification that's diplomatic and economic rather than kinetic.
But if there were a kinetic scenario, I think China would sink every naval vessel within hundreds of kilometers of China's eastern shoreline.
In fact, that's clear.
It's clear now that that's the case.
Now, the U.S. has submarines, obviously, and the U.S. has nukes, but.
Is the U.S. going to just leap to nukes?
Like, oh, you sank one of our ships, we're going to nuke your country?
Well, China has nukes too, you know, so that's not a very wise escalation from the United States if they wanted to do that.
But we're moving into a world where countries are going to have to escort their transport ships.
Yeah.
Now, here's what I'm wondering.
Wouldn't it make sense?
This is going to become like a Mad Max ocean scenario.
But wouldn't it make sense if you're a transport vessel, let's say if you've got containers on your ship, lots of containers, that you reserve the upper containers to be like drone launch containers so that the ships have a means of self defense?
And if you start getting harassed as a transport ship, harassed by anyone, By any naval force, you press a button, you open up the top of the 40 foot containers, and out fly 5,000 drones directed to the targets that are harassing you.
You set their ships on fire.
It seems to me like transport ships are going to have to start having self defense.
This is why I've been even surprised over the years when Somali pirates would use a motorboat and they would drive up alongside a tanker with AK 47s and fire a few shots and take over the tanker.
I'm like, Why don't you mount 50 caliber, you know, full auto machine guns on the corners of the tanker?
Apparently, that's not allowed by some maritime rules or something.
I'm not familiar with the rules.
I stay on land, okay?
I don't sail across oceans.
But there are some kind of rules like you're not supposed to be armed.
I bet you that starts to change.
Because why wouldn't you have 50 caliber guns?
Why wouldn't you have drone launch platforms to protect your ship?
You know?
If ships are going to get attacked, and I'm not talking about just from the U.S. Navy, as the potential of world war escalates, it could be, you know, who knows?
I mean, there are so many alliances that are potentially breaking, and there are, you know, so many different countries involved with different motivations and priorities.
Who knows who could be attacking?
But shouldn't transport ships have a means of self defense?
And drones make that possible.
So you just carry around, you know, a drone load right there on the top.
The top 40 foot container.
But then you might say, well, that would make it a target.
Then the navies would try to shoot the containers, thinking that those might be drones.
Well, so that's when you have other containers that have missiles in them.
You know, like this becomes a game of escalation, but the transport ships are going to have to start thinking about survival here, and especially the tankers.
You're going to have to think about survival.
So, it's a bad day for the world when the U.S. starts committing piracy and boarding ships out in the middle of the Arabian Sea or the Indian Ocean or wherever.
You're just like hunting down ships or even in the Atlantic, ships coming out of Venezuela before the U.S. would just, you know, seize the ships and steal the oil.
U.S. Piracy Risks Rise00:04:32
Trump was bragging about it.
We're going to take the oil.
What are you, a pirate?
You know, Arr, Arr, Arr.
You're just a pirate.
You should dress up as a pirate for Halloween.
You're out there stealing oil and taking ships.
That's not going to work for the world.
You're going to create risk and you're going to heighten transportation costs and you're going to create distrust in the sea lanes where every ship coming close to every other ship is going to be thinking, Do I press the button?
Do I launch the missiles?
Do I launch the drones?
How about torpedoes?
You're going to have tankers that will have like ocean drones, like low cost.
Mini torpedoes, you know, things like that.
That's where this is going.
It's a Mad Max ocean world.
And that's not going to be good for anybody.
It's going to raise transportation costs and risk for everybody.
So, this is all Trump's fault at this point.
It really is for weaponizing the Navy to start pirating ships.
It has led to this whole conversation, this entire scenario.
So, the U.S., though, is clearly losing its ability to project power.
In fact, since February 28th, everything has changed.
In the minds of the leaders of nations like Russia and China and Iran, everybody's thinking, wow, so Iran kept the entire U.S. Navy at bay.
And Iran is not even the largest, most capable military force in the world, right?
But Iran alone kept the U.S. at bay.
What does that mean?
It means the U.S. can no longer.
Incredibly threaten everybody into compliance.
The U.S. can't say, well, you know, do what we tell you to do or we're going to destroy your entire country.
Now, they can do it to small countries, but they tried to destroy the Houthis in Yemen.
That didn't work.
They spent what?
Was it like a week or two weeks bombing the snot out of Yemen?
And then the U.S. was losing too many aircraft.
The F-18 Hornets, they said, oh, they're falling off the edge of the aircraft carrier.
No, they weren't.
They're getting shot down.
The U.S. was losing too many aircraft and taking too many shots, and so they had to vacate the area.
And then, you know, two or three days later, the Houthis come out of their caves and their bunkers and are like, We're back, you punk, you know.
The launch of missiles again.
So you can bomb the snot out of Yemen or Iran, it doesn't defeat them.
And if you get too close, they're going to set your ships on fire.
You see?
They're going to set your ships on fire.
So this changes everything, folks, and that's why it's critical to understand this right now.
This changes everything about world trade, it changes everything about the cost of transportation, it changes the dynamic of power in the world.
We are now clearly moving into a multipolar world.
The U.S. can no longer credibly function as the world's.
Policemen.
It can no longer credibly threaten to destroy a country that doesn't do what it's told.
And this is why the world is also moving away from the petrodollar.
Because if the US can't enforce its will against everybody, then it can't force everybody to use the dollar.
And then the dollar is going to be dumped by more and more countries, you know, because it's weaponized and the sanctions and the inflation, devaluation of the dollar, etc.
Why would you hold dollars?
Why would you use dollars?
You know, no wonder Russia said all the energy we sell to Europe from now on is going to be priced in Chinese yuan.
It's not going to be dollars.
It's not going to be euros even.
It's going to be China's currency.
And think about it.
Out of Iran, when Iran says you have to pay a toll for your ship to sail through the Strait of Hormuz, what do you pay that toll in?
Well, Chinese yuan also, or maybe Bitcoin or gold or something, but not dollars.
Nobody wants dollars anymore.
I mean, nobody outside the influence of Western, you know, the main Five Eyes countries, nobody else wants to use dollars.
They're trying to get rid of them as quickly as possible.
Future Warfare Shifts00:04:05
And what Trump has actually managed to achieve here is a global demonstration of the weakness of the U.S. Navy, which nobody would have believed it six months ago.
Now, they're astonished.
The jaws are dropped on the floor.
Oh my God, the Navy is that weak?
Their toilets don't even work?
Yeah, the Navy's that weak.
So perhaps Trump will triple down on this and he'll go in for one last mad dash of kinetic violence to try to murder some more school children or something and try to prove how powerful we are some kind of big manly dick measuring contest with the military bombs or something.
It's going to go badly.
He's probably going to get a lot of soldiers killed, but more importantly, he's going to show that the U.S. Navy is.
Is weaker than everybody thought.
That's going to change the whole dynamic from here forward.
The whole dynamic.
In other words, what every country is realizing right now is that in order to defeat the U.S. Navy, you don't need a Navy.
In fact, it's better if you don't have one.
What do you need?
You need some speed boats with mines, you need some underwater drones, you need some flying drones, you need some shore based missiles, and that's it.
That's all you need.
You don't need an Air Force.
Trump's always bragging, we destroyed their Air Force.
What Air Force?
Like museum F-4s that you shot up?
Who cares?
We destroyed their Navy.
What Navy?
They didn't have a Navy.
They had shoreline patrol boats.
It's like the Coast Guard of Iran.
You destroyed the Coast Guard.
Who cares?
You didn't destroy their ability to legitimately threaten the U.S. Navy.
That's what has changed now.
So, you can bet China's watching this.
In fact, I was asking Eric about this very point.
He thinks that Chinese military leaders are right now really recalibrating their war plans, or I should say defense plans, but they're focused on drone carriers at this point.
Not aircraft carriers, drone carriers.
And what about underwater drone carriers?
Like the submarine concept.
I've seen this, at least rendered in 3D.
I've seen submarines, not even very big.
Mostly unmanned, and then they can surface, open up, and boom, out pop like a thousand drones.
That seems really effective these days.
That's very effective.
Much more effective than having an aircraft carrier.
Especially when you can launch like 500 drones and then go close the top and go back underwater and disappear in 10 minutes.
You know what I'm saying?
And then whatever drones survive, you surface somewhere else after the mission an hour later or whatever battery life they have, and they can land back on the submarine so you don't lose them all.
Or you can just have them be disposable.
They can all be kamikaze drones or whatever.
Who cares?
You can just stock the whole submarine full of like 5,000 drones.
They don't have to be very big to do a lot of damage or to gather intel.
This is the future of warfare.
It's not about aircraft carriers.
It's about drones and rockets and missiles and also underwater drones as well, which kind of like, think about like cruise missiles in the water.
But slower, you know.
That's the future of warfare.
It's been clear in Ukraine, it's clear with Iran, and China's pivoting quickly.
The U.S. is just doubling down on, like, let's build more of the same old, obsolete stuff that Iran just proved doesn't work.
What are we going to do?
Let's build another aircraft carrier.
Sir, shouldn't we fix the toilets first?
Hell no.
They can crap overboard.
Build another aircraft carrier.
$20 billion this time.
One Nation Myth00:05:18
It'll make everybody happy.
They'll launder the money into our campaign funds.
And we can claim it's all for national defense.
You're building obsolete stuff from the 1980s.
It's not going to win wars in the 2030s and 2040s, is my point.
So, everything changes from here forward.
Wow.
Trump didn't just lose the war with Iran.
He lost the credibility of the U.S. Navy.
That's what Trump did.
And everybody is noticing.
So, I hope, as an American, I love my country.
I hate the current regime that's running it because I think they're all morons.
But I hope and pray that perhaps this will force the U.S. to reconsider its posture and to pursue a posture of peaceful trade.
I've said before, I want America to trade with Iran, trade with Russia, trade with China.
Trade with even trade with North Korea.
You know, I mean, heck, we trade with Saudi Arabia all these years and look at all the human rights abuses of that regime.
You know, we should trade with countries instead of bombing them and threatening them and, you know, committing genocide against them.
If we trade with countries, then we have to step back from this bully position of claiming that we could, you know, we're going to blow you up.
We're going to end your civilization if you don't do what we say.
Forget that.
It's not going to work.
We need to step back.
We need to recalibrate and say, we are one nation among many.
The world has room for more than one nation.
And other nations have stuff that we could buy and trade.
They have things that we need, like rare earths out of China or low-cost energy out of Russia or aluminum mining out of Russia or how about enriched nuclear fuel?
Because we get most of that from Russia to this day.
But we need stuff from India.
We need stuff from Turkey.
We need stuff from Brazil.
On and on and on.
Why can't we just trade and stop being you know, the assholes of the sea, which sounds like a weird canned meat product, like spam or something.
But no, we shouldn't be the assholes of the sea, is all I'm saying.
We should just trade, just trade with everybody.
Sorry about that.
I get a little carried away sometimes.
Just trade with people.
Stop bombing everybody.
That's not how you win friends.
And this is really not how you secure America's future either.
You can't make America great again by just bombing the snot out of everybody else in the world.
You actually have to, at some point, work on abundance, which comes from trade.
And you have to reinvigorate your domestic economy, your education system, your own.
Industry, the know how skills of your youth, etc.
And I don't see much focus on that, really.
It's just a focus of let's bomb everybody into compliance.
Compliance with what?
Compliance to keep using the dollar so we can print more money and go into more debt while our country falls apart because our education system has collapsed, our roads and bridges are collapsing.
It's like living in a third world country in America more and more.
That's not a long term plan of success.
Things have got to change.
The Trump approach is a failure.
Trump needs to go.
We need a whole new approach.
Eventually, it'll happen.
We need a whole new approach to get along with the world and to stop pretending that we are the rulers of the world.
We're not.
We're not the chosen ones to rule the world.
We're just, you know, all of God's children are chosen ones, technically speaking.
Everybody has the same right to exist.
But we need to learn to recognize other nations' rights, which we currently do not.
As a nation.
So that's my take on the situation.
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It's necessary because the dollar will continue to lose value.
There's no question about that, at least as long as, well, it doesn't matter who's president, does it?
You know, they're all going to print.
They're going to print.
And print until the end.
Engineered Global Scarcity00:10:25
They are.
Of course they are.
It's the only, there's no option.
They're just going to keep printing until it's over.
So, there you go.
Thanks for listening.
You can catch more of my videos at brightvideos.com and you can catch my articles at naturalnews.com.
Take care.
You know, you may not be aware of this, but Tehran was almost made uninhabitable by drought, and the drought was engineered in part by U.S. radar systems that were blasting energy to ionize the atmosphere to steer clouds away.
From Iran and to actually cause a drought.
It's just classic geoengineering, multiple ways to achieve this.
But what has happened is that since those large radar installations around the Persian Gulf have been destroyed by Iranian drones, the rains have returned.
And now, in the last week or so, we have really record rains in Tehran and what was almost uninhabitable.
I mean, literally last year, they almost had to think about evacuating large sections of the city, a city of nine or 10 million people.
Now they have plenty of water.
Of course, their infrastructure has been destroyed in part and bombed by the United States because of the kinetic war.
But the geoengineering war was another kind of warfare.
Of course, their infrastructure has suffered an extensive amount of damage due to the kinetic war being waged against Iran by the United States.
But the geoengineering war was just another layer on top of that.
So the reason I want to mention this is because.
The globalist deep state of Western civilization wages war on so many levels.
There's engineered famine, there's engineered energy scarcity, there's pesticides and herbicides to cause cancer and depopulation, there's weaponized, you know, ticks that cause Lyme disease, there's, you know, everything that you can imagine.
There's some kind of weaponized system.
The vaccines were weaponized, you know, the information.
Is weaponized by the regime against the people.
They roll out many of the same weapons against the American people that they're using against enemy nations like Iran.
So, for example, there's weather control that happens in the United States, all on purpose.
You know, storms, hurricanes that can be steered into striking certain locations, floods and droughts that can compromise the food supply domestically.
Remember that the global elite, they need to run on scarcity, and that scarcity has to be engineered.
And reinvigorated really from time to time.
They need scarcity to create control.
Without scarcity, if there were just abundance of everything for everybody, if crops grew easily and there was lots of affordable energy, et cetera, then, you know, people wouldn't be as easily controllable.
So a big part of the effort by the globalists right now is to destroy the things that create abundance.
Remember, it's destroying the things that create abundance in order to control you.
And one of the gifts from God would be rainfall, you know, water falling out of the sky for free to water your crops.
Sunlight, these are free things rain and sun.
And that's why you have states like Oregon that are outlawing rainwater collection on your own property.
They do, they outlaw it on your own property.
A famous court case of a rancher that was building rainwater collection on his own land, and he was actually arrested.
And I believe he was sentenced to jail for doing that, which seems crazy because, you know, it's a classic permaculture philosophy to retain water and help your own land grow more trees and have more habitat for animals and pollinators, et cetera.
Speaking of pollinators, the other part of this war is the neonicotinoids, the organophosphate chemicals, the glyphosate herbicide, et cetera, that's designed to kill pollinators.
Which is doing at a rapid pace.
Colony collapse is happening every year with honeybees.
And then on top of that, it's designed to give people turbo cancer so they die earlier, which is all part of the depopulation agenda.
So, no wonder life is hard for so many people right now.
You're under constant assault from a system that wants you to die, assault from medicine and vaccines to the food supply.
To the air you breathe, to the weather, to engineered famine and food inflation, forcing you to eat cheaper foods that are more processed and devoid of any real nutrition, which accelerates your degenerative disease conditions like diabetes and cancer and heart disease, etc.
This is all by design.
Your government is at war with you, and the globalist governments are at war with you.
And if you want a really good example of this, Look at the governments of Western European countries.
I mean, they are blatantly waging war against their own people.
They've shut down their energy infrastructure.
They have no legal protections for their own people, but they offer absolute legal immunity to illegals and migrants that come in and take their jobs and burn their churches down and things like that.
The European governments are clearly treasonous.
Clearly treasonous.
They want their own nations to fail, they are ashamed.
Of their own heritage for some reason.
It's like the French government is ashamed of being French.
The German government is ashamed of being German.
And the British government is ashamed of being white.
So they just want to destroy all their nations.
And they're doing a damn good job at committing national suicide.
But they also run weather control.
They also run the pesticides.
They run all the other weapons systems that I've talked about here, especially vaccines.
And while disarming their own population, so you have no Second Amendment.
No means of self defense against a chaotic society or rising crime.
And if you dare defend yourself in the UK against a home invader or someone with a knife threatening to stab you, if you dare defend yourself, you go to jail for causing an injury to them as they were trying to kill you.
But you're the bad guy in the UK for some reason.
It's just totally insane, but that's what it is.
And you've seen many examples of this.
So, the bottom line is, I'm calling this the pinch.
The pinch is the global depopulation effort.
And I'm using the word the pinch in a kind of a mocking way because it sounds like something small, but it's actually global.
It's the population pinch.
And they are trying to eliminate billions of people.
The only way to do that is to put everybody, 8 billion plus people, through the most difficult years of our lives, a time where the energy backbone is.
Partially destroyed, where food is scarce, where there's no social cohesion, where the rule of law has been abandoned, where the money supply is cratering and hyperinflation is just over the horizon, etc.
And everybody's getting dumbed down.
There's no more politeness in society.
We no longer have a high trust society.
Crime is getting worse.
The court system is completely broken.
Elections are broken.
The education system is broken.
The media is totally paid off and rigged and retarded on top of that.
It just gets worse and worse and worse.
But this is all by design.
And the point of this is global depopulation, the pinch.
So, as I've said many times, once you understand that, then everything else starts to make sense.
But on a positive note, let me add that I believe you can survive the pinch.
I plan to survive it.
And frankly, it won't be that difficult.
You might think that's.
Crazy to hear me say that after all the things I just said earlier.
But the truth is that the globalists know killing most people isn't that difficult because most people have no survival skills.
They have no supplies.
They don't have any stored food.
They live paycheck to paycheck and meal to meal.
And if you cut off their electricity and their food and their money, they don't live very long, it turns out.
So the vast majority of the population are pretty easy for the globalists to kill off.
And they know that.
And that's who they're going to target first, obviously.
The low hanging fruit.
Of the global culling, let's say.
You, on the other hand, are very hard to kill.
And I've talked about this a lot how to be hard to kill, how to survive all of this.
There are simple ways to achieve this.
I've covered many of them, such as stockpiling food and medicine, et cetera, and getting off grid as much as possible, having your own gold and silver instead of relying on dollars, and basically decentralizing your life.
I have a whole show dedicated to that at decentralize.tv.
You may have seen those episodes.
People love those episodes.
So, actually, decentralizing from this whole system is the survival mechanism, and it is achievable.
Some elements are more difficult than others, such as having your own domestic energy supply.
That's difficult because of the cost of solar installations or generators or things like that, but it is achievable.
Decentralize Your Life00:02:43
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They might kill three quarters of us, but they won't kill all of us.
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All right, welcome to today's interview, everybody.
I'm Mike Adams here with brightvideos.com.
And I've got an incredible guest for you today.
It's Eric Young.
His handle on X is KingKong9888.
That's 9888 if you'd like to follow him there.
And I think it's very wise to follow him there because he has a lot of insights and he's on the side of honesty and truth on almost everything that he posts there.
So, Mr. Young, it's an honor to have you on the show today.
Thanks for joining me.
Well, thank you very much for inviting me to your show, Mike.
It's a pleasure.
I'm really honored to have you here.
I'm a big fan of your work, and I know some of your very successful history of investment.
China Energy Security00:15:24
I believe you live in Hong Kong, correct?
Correct.
Okay, fantastic.
And we have so much to cover here and so little time, but first, let's cover one of the myths that is often propagated by people in America.
They think that Trump waging war against Iran.
Is closing the strait in a way that will hurt China first, that China will suffer the most pain and therefore Trump is victorious.
What is your answer to that common perception?
So I don't think that's exactly accurate, Michael, like the common perception, because China has been working over the last 20 years or even more to ensure that it has energy security.
I mean, I live in Hong Kong, I travel to China a lot, I'm back and forth.
On a weekly basis, essentially.
And I can tell you right now that there are zero signs of energy scarcity in China.
Yeah.
Like zero signs.
You know, if you understand China, let me tell you this.
Let me tell your audience this.
If there's any potential energy squeeze, we would be seeing that right now in China.
Yes.
Amongst like the people and all over social media.
But we're not seeing that.
So that means that tells me that China has the energy situation handled.
And if we look at the actual, you know, China's actual energy composition, I mean, like I'm talking about where China gets its energy from, it's actually pretty, you know, stable in terms of, you know, even let's say if the Middle Eastern energy impulse significantly.
Impacted.
Now, a lot of the audience may not know, but China actually is a crude oil producing and refining juggernaut.
China actually produces 30% of the crude oil that it consumes internally.
So, a lot of people thought or think that China imports all its energy.
That's not true.
So, 30% of that is domestically produced.
And also, people are always shocked when I point out how much solar, wind, and hydro power China has.
And I did a special report last year when I mentioned that the aggregate annual terawatt hours of output of China's power grid is more than double the United States.
And people were quite shocked about that.
Correct.
And it's growing rapidly.
Yes.
Thanks for that.
Much faster.
Yeah.
Exactly.
And thanks to, by the way, thanks to the Western banking cartel, because they have been suppressing the price of silver to ridiculous low prices.
Yes.
So the Chinese import all the silver to China to manufacture solar panels.
Yes.
So, in a way, like, you know, by the bankers in the West protecting their.
You know, price suppression of silver gain, they have been helping China with energy diversification.
That is fascinating.
And comment, if you would, please, on how you mentioned energy security is critical to every nation and especially China, but also the energy abundance that China has developed over decades, while, for example, Western Europe was shutting down coal plants and nuclear plants, et cetera.
This has put China at the forefront of.
AI technology because it doesn't have the power restrictions that even the United States is experiencing.
What are your comments on that?
Well, you're absolutely correct.
China is ramping up on nuclear energy.
A couple of days ago, I heard reports of China starting to build another 17 new nuclear power plants.
And then yesterday, I heard 50.
So, like, the number keeps going up.
Of China building new nuclear power plants.
As a matter of fact, I brought my little daughter to the newest, biggest indoor ski park in Shenzhen, China.
This place just opened the end of last year, around November, December.
Indoor?
Indoor.
And that place, imagine the amount of energy that you need to power that thing.
Because Hong Kong, Shenzhen, we're located at the southern.
Parts of China.
So we have pretty, it's not as hot as Thailand, but we get like 25, 26 degrees right now.
And in the summer, it gets up to 35 degrees.
So it takes a lot of energy to power this thing.
And my understanding is that this place is powered by nuclear energy because there's a big nuclear power plant at Waizhou, which is the suburb of Shenzhen.
And let me tell you something, Mike.
Let me tell you one more thing.
The interesting thing is that when this thing was built in the 1980s, all the, you know, Gordon Chang's, I mean, he didn't, you know, he wasn't a personality back then, but like people who were anti China, they were protesting against it.
For years.
So that, I think, you know, again, is part of the long term planning of the Chinese central government.
They have been planning for decades to ensure that China would have energy independence.
Yes.
Yes.
And it's clear also, so let me pivot, but it's related to I saw that KATL, C A T L, just announced.
Another major breakthrough in vehicle battery technology, I think, using a nickel manganese cobalt addition to the lithium, achieving a very high energy density and lower battery weight than any other battery technology in the world.
And I, as an American, Eric, I'm not allowed to buy these batteries from China.
I'm not allowed to buy a Chinese EV, even though they're better and cheaper than the Teslas that I can buy.
Canada's about to do a deal with China to import a lot of vehicles.
They're going to have the best vehicle technology of all.
And China, by shifting, I think 60% of Chinese vehicles are now EVs instead of combustion engines.
They've been able to shift or reduce reliance on oil and shift to their local domestic energy production for transportation.
That's genius.
You're absolutely correct.
I mean, like for the longest time, people made fun of China.
They were saying, well, China building all these EVs is just some dead end green energy, liberal.
BS idea.
But now we see that it's not that.
Like, the reason why China pushed the electric vehicle industry for all these years is because it's part of the greater energy independence plan to reduce their reliance on crude oil.
And, like, you're right.
Like, last year I checked it was around 50% of all new vehicles being EV.
You're correct that now it's 60%.
And the fact that we have this Middle Eastern situation is actually pushing Chinese citizens and in Hong Kong as well to buy more EVs.
So, remember all that inventory, all that so called overcapacity of electric vehicles that China produced last year?
Well, that inventory is quickly going away, it's quickly being sold.
As a matter of fact, Chinese exports of EV has at least doubled since the Middle Eastern war began at the beginning of March.
So, in a way, I mean, it's not only me saying it, you can say that Donald Trump is actually.
Helping the Chinese EV industry to export all this.
He's an EV salesman now.
Correct.
So I was joking on my ex account.
I said the Chinese EV companies should give Donald Trump a cut, a commission, because, like, I mean, like, how, like, he's the only person who could double Chinese EV sales within two months.
It's a miracle.
True.
It is a miracle.
Interestingly, I've heard also that sales of Korean EVs, which are allowed in The United States from Hyundai, for example, those sales are up 500% also since the war began.
Wow.
Wow.
Yeah.
Wow.
So, Korea, which is sometimes trying to compete with China battery technology, but Korea isn't as advanced, but still, they're still selling a lot of vehicles.
So, at some point, I don't know about you, Eric, but you travel a lot, you speak amazing English.
I, as an American, and I, I lived in Taiwan in years past and I speak some conversational Chinese, but I'm starting to feel like I'm at the disadvantage in America as a consumer who's not allowed to buy the most innovative technology now.
Whereas decades ago when I lived in Taiwan, it was the other way around.
Taiwan was trying to import stuff from America because that was the newest, that was the best.
Now, obviously, it's completely different.
And we in America are more like the third world.
It's bizarre, but that's where we are.
Well, I mean, Mike, I think at the end of the day, this might be a temporary phenomenon because Donald Trump, he's only going to be president for another two more years.
After Donald Trump, there may be some policy change in the US where these tariffs imposed on China may come down a bit, which allow Which would allow Chinese EVs to be imported into America.
Now, I'm not saying that all the tariffs on China's advanced technological industries are going to be lifted by the next US government.
But even if it's partially lifted, I think that would give American companies the competition that it needs to push it to innovate.
To the next level, so that you guys are not like completely behind.
Like the US is not North Korea.
That's my point.
Right, right.
No, I agree with you.
So that's not going to happen.
Yeah.
And there will be some level of protectionism of US industries like Ford, et cetera, and even Tesla.
But I like what you said if some relaxing of certain tariffs could help spur domestic innovation while still allowing domestic industries to do well.
But that brings me to then the rare earths question.
And I know you've covered this in many of your tweets.
But China has restrictions on some, but not all.
Some of the restrictions are temporary.
Some could be made permanent if things get crazy in terms of trade wars between the US and China.
But Trump obviously panicked a little while ago, realizing that we can't build a lot of our military equipment without Chinese rare earths and that extraction technology and that know how and then the infrastructure, right?
So then Trump announced we're going to have domestic rare earths, but you and I know that's going to be a tiny, tiny percentage and it's going to take 10 years, it's not going to cover.
What we need.
So, what's the rare earth factor going to look like in the next couple of years, in your view?
I think China's concern, like you said, is that the US government is going to take some of these Chinese reserves to be used within the military industrial complex to build new cruise missiles, jet fighters, etc.
China obviously doesn't want that.
So there's that component right there, but there's also another component where China imports, like we talked about, China imports a lot of silver from the US.
So there are certain critical minerals that are Chinese that are from the US.
And if you look at the Chinese import of silver in the last couple of months, it just exploded upwards.
As a matter of fact, I believe Bloomberg has compiled a chart showing us.
That the Chinese import of silver went up beyond 300% in March.
So, and if we look at it, we don't have the exact data showing that silver is from the US, but if we look at the flow, we can deduce that a lot of that was probably from the COMEX.
Okay.
So, if that's the case, then I think we're still in a.
Symbiotic relationship like between China and the US.
So, I don't think China can completely cut off the US from its rare earths because China is importing certain critical minerals from the American continent.
Yes.
So, yeah, I don't think that's going to stop completely.
That's my position right now.
I think it's going to drag on, it's going to grind.
Yes.
I like to hear that because, of course, everybody benefits with trade, right?
I mean, we have some stuff that.
You need, you have some stuff that we need.
And if we can just keep the trade going, then we both benefit.
We both have our competitive advantages, and then we avoid war if we trade, right?
But I'm not sure that a lot of high level people in our government right now really understand supply chains that well, or logistics, or manufacturing.
Taiwan Manufacturing Focus00:15:44
Being a real estate expert does not make you an expert in manufacturing.
In fact, wasn't it the CEO of Ford that went to visit a car factory in China and he came back and he said, Something like, you know, we're 20 years behind.
They have dark factories there with full automation, just robots on the floors everywhere.
And he was shocked.
It just shows you the gap that can exist there.
I think, as an American, I love my country, but I feel like we've really fallen behind on a lot of these things.
Well, you're correct, Mike.
I mean, I don't know if you know, but I have been in the contract manufacturing business for over two decades.
So I know a bit about manufacturing in China.
Yes.
I can tell you when I first started in the business, the Chinese made, they didn't have the technology to make the high end stuff.
So they made the low end stuff.
I mean, that's, unfortunately, that's the mindset.
Of a lot of people, they're still stuck in the late 1990s when the Chinese made the low end stuff.
So, back then, when I visited Chinese factories, the machines that they used to make the products weren't even made in China.
So, they imported machines from Japan, Taiwan, South Korea.
And then I remember around 20 years ago, they started.
Manufacturing their own domestic machines.
And those weren't the highest quality machines.
So if you wanted mediocre manufactured products, you use the Chinese domestic machines to make those.
And then around 10 years ago, I started seeing China making machines, okay?
These machines that they use to manufacture other stuff.
China started making machines that were high end.
That were comparable to the Japanese ones and the Taiwan made ones.
And just before I retired, I noticed that almost all machines are domestically made by China.
Like they no longer import very specialized things that they're still catching up on, but mostly they are now using Chinese domestic manufactured machines and, like you just mentioned, robots to manufacture their products.
So China.
You know, there's a lot of hate on China.
People criticize China a lot, but China changes very rapidly.
Yeah.
Well, and one of those areas that you mentioned is UV lithography for microchip fabrication, right?
So that was something where the West thought they could strangle China forever.
And, you know, it worked for a few years, but now China is developing its own lithography.
In fact, I think with like two nanometer technology that will be commercialized, I've read within less than two years or less.
So it's almost like, You know, Chinese people, if you don't mind me saying, because I lived in Taiwan for two years, I have great respect for the innovation, the dedication, the studiousness of Chinese people.
If you say they can't have something, they will figure out how to make it themselves.
And it's exactly what the West has forced China to do when it comes to lithography, isn't it?
Absolutely.
As a matter of fact, it's a story about how China's space program came about.
I read that basically what happened is China used to use the US GPS system for the navigation.
And then a couple of decades ago, they were transporting oil, crude oil.
I guess it was with a sanctioned country, possibly Iran.
And the US saw that and they just shut.
Shut it off for the Chinese vessel.
And that vessel was just stuck in the open ocean for over a month.
So the Chinese government determined at that point that they need to have their own satellite network.
And look at where China is right now with their own satellite network.
If, let's say, China doesn't have that, then they're sitting ducks.
Like modern warfare is totally dependent on a comprehensive satellite network to.
Like, allow you to see what's going on on the grounds.
So, anyway.
100%.
I mean, that would be worse than being cut off from the Swift financial system, would be cutting off from a GPS if that's what you're relying on.
Now, I want to ask you I mentioned I lived in Taiwan, and that was decades ago.
And when I lived there, most of the people I knew at the time were fiercely pro independence, like DPP party type of people.
But what we've seen recently is what's her name?
Deng Liwen.
She visited with.
President Xi of China, and Xi's of course with the Kuomintang, and they had a conversation about unification, peaceful, peaceful.
My question to you, sir, is that Taiwan has realized, in my opinion, that relying on the West for its protection and its energy and its trade was a horrible mistake because Trump tariffed Taiwan, and Taiwan's running out of natural gas, and the naval projection power of the United States in the Taiwan Strait, etc.
In the West Pacific, has been shown by Iran to be, you know, a paper tiger.
So, my question to you, Eric, is I've come to believe that Taiwan will actually be stronger with mainland China.
What is your thought on this?
And I don't mean to make it all political, but, you know, you're there and your opinion matters.
So, what do you think about all this?
I absolutely agree with you, Mike.
I mean, like, my family has a lot of ties with Taiwan.
I have uncles.
My father was a military officer in Taiwan, a medical officer.
And back in the day, when talking about mainland China, they basically, the logic within the officer corps in Taiwan is that if they do not possess a nuclear weapon, there's no way of stopping a mainland Chinese invasion of Taiwan.
And as a matter of fact, in the 1980s, Taiwan had a nuclear weapons program and they almost had a functioning nuclear weapons.
A weapon, sorry.
Wow, I did not know that.
They had that, but the CIA stopped it.
So the CIA found out and they stopped that.
They actually came in and forced the Taiwanese government to dismantle its nuclear weapons program.
Wow.
So that was under.
I believe Reagan and George Bush.
So, like the senior George Bush.
So, basically, whatever hope that Taiwan had for independence, that was it.
It's over when that happened.
And I think there's a huge population in Taiwan who identify themselves as Chinese, okay, not Taiwanese.
I mean, yeah, of course, there are people in Taiwan who identify themselves as Chinese.
Separate entity from the ethnic Chinese, but there's also a huge population in Taiwan who identify themselves as Chinese.
So I think going forward, having a good relationship with mainland China is probably the way to go.
And that path will, I believe, bring, like you said, prosperity and peace to the region.
So I think the KMT is doing the right thing.
That's my conclusion.
Yeah, and the fact that they're pursuing a peaceful dialogue is really, really critical.
Because one of the things that I don't want to see as a fan of the people of Taiwan, I don't want to see the West do to Taiwan what it did to Ukraine, sacrificing a generation of young men as a proxy to try to destroy Russia, right?
But I can see the West trying to do the same thing to weaken China, but it would fail, obviously.
But they would sacrifice.
Taiwan.
I don't want to see that happen.
And you're right.
Most of the people that I knew when I lived there, especially the older generation, they had parents or grandparents still living in mainland China.
They would visit mainland China to visit their relatives frequently back and forth.
Absolutely.
As a matter of fact, a lot of people in Taiwan have ties with Fujian.
They speak the same dialect.
That's right.
The Fujianese, right?
And a lot of people don't know.
Taiwan is not just the main island, it has the main island and a lot of small islands.
And the closest small island that is under Taiwanese jurisdiction is only two or three kilometers away from mainland China.
That's how close they are.
Yes.
Like a lot of Americans don't know that.
They think it was really far away.
It's not.
It's really close to mainland China.
So, yeah, I mean, I see a peaceful reunification of Taiwan and China.
And I believe that's what China wants.
I agree with you.
I actually think that Trump, the last year that he's had in office, has made that reunification much more likely.
Than before on peaceful terms.
I think, I mean, think about it.
Trump punished Taiwan with really harsh tariffs and also then I think used Section 301 trade sanctions against Taiwan, claiming that Taiwan was over manufacturing and thus was unfairly flooding the world with its product output.
Like, who comes up with this stuff?
You know?
But that's what Trump is doing.
It's like you treat your friends like dirt, you know?
Crazy.
I mean, look, Mike, Taiwan is undefendable.
Iran showed us.
With its physical proximity to mainland China, all China needs to do is to swamp Taiwan with a lot of drones and it's game over.
I mean, before the Iran US war, it's a debate, it's an intellectual debate.
Now, Iran showed us that there's no debate.
It's the new reality of modern warfare.
So, how much do you think that?
The people in Beijing are paying attention to what you just said there.
Are they recalibrating their understanding of American naval strength now?
Absolutely, because I see China cranking out more.
Carriers for drones.
Instead, while they're still building naval carriers for traditional aircrafts, but they're also pumping out a lot of naval carriers for drones, which I believe is what they need for the next generation of modern warfare.
Which, like I said, Iran showed us, right?
Like drones are going to rule the air.
The earth and the sea.
That's it.
Yeah, yeah, clearly.
And also, what we're seeing right now is the U.S. Navy is afraid to approach the shoreline of southern Iran within even hundreds of kilometers because of the shore missile batteries that Iran has.
And I'm certain China has more than Iran, undoubtedly.
You know, it's a matter of fact, the recent boarding of the Iranian vessel.
By the US Navy is done from Indocom.
It's not even like they had to do it all the way at the Indian Ocean.
Yeah, right.
So, yeah.
They won't get close.
They're afraid to get close because they're being outranged by the land missiles.
So, let me ask you this what do you suppose China will do if the US begins really boarding and pirating vessels with oil headed for China?
So, yeah, like, I mean, the situation is changing on a daily basis, not even daily, it's like minute by minute.
There are new updates coming out from different media sources.
And I read, like you said, that the U.S. announced that they're going to do global boarding of ships that they deem undesirable, like Iranian oil carriers.
To China or tankers, whatever you call it.
So I think China eventually is going to have to do military escorts, like naval escorts of these ships.
It's just good.
Like, you can't do it globally.
It doesn't make any sense.
If you're doing it in the South China Sea, is China just going to sit there and watch you guys, watch the American Navy confiscate all these oil tankers?
It just doesn't make any sense.
In the Persian Gulf, or near the Persian Gulf, yes, it.
I see China not aggressively getting into the mix.
That kind of makes sense, but globally, I don't know.
Yeah.
So that's very interesting that you say that because if China begins to escort the tankers, then number one, that somewhat increases the cost of energy transport because of that, the additional military cost.
But I'm thinking in a more concerning way that then it entices.
Maybe a haywire US naval vessel to attack a Chinese vessel, and I could see even accidental escalation happening if that were the case.
Do you see that as a risk as well, possibly?
Well, I see the Americans probably backing off in that scenario.
That's just maybe I'm a little bit more optimistic there, but I think the problem, like you're right, I think it's a cost issue.
Dark Fleet Escalation Risk00:02:51
Even with the situation right now, I don't think the US is capturing 100% of the Iranian shadow fleet or the dark fleet, whatever you call it, coming out.
It's probably 10, 20%.
Correct.
But if you're doing business and you lose 20% of your product, I mean, that's a significant hit.
So, in a way, they are sort of effective, right?
Like, I'm not, I mean, I said on my X account that the Arabian Sea is huge and they're not going to be able to intercept every single.
Uh, dark fleet vessel, which, like, I just reiterated, I think that's what's happening, but yeah, like I said, even if they do 10%, it's a big problem, so that's why I guess Iran is complaining or voicing out that the U.S. must stop the blockade.
So that's my logic there, yeah.
Okay, all right, that makes perfect sense now.
Um, let me ask you, I think I've seen you post about the fact that you also have discussions on China based social media, uh, as well, and yes.
I'm curious, can you tell us?
Because, of course, my audience is mostly American, but international people as well who speak English.
But what is the overall kind of consensus conversation from the Chinese people about what Trump is doing and the war on Iran right now?
Okay, so I'll give you like in China, the social media, you have to use your real name and your real phone number to register.
So, like, there are no like.
I mean, there might be burner accounts, but they are very few and fine between.
Like, usually, it's a real person behind the trolling.
The trolling ratio is very low.
That's what you're saying.
Yeah, I'm going to give you like some numbers, right?
Okay.
So, like, my X account, I block on a bad day, I block around 30, 50 people a day.
I mean, a lot of them are just like boss, right?
Okay.
On a bad day.
On a good day, I blocked maybe within 10.
So I blocked in total since 2020 around 3,000 people, like less than that.
But that's still, in terms of X, it's still a low number because there are around 400 million active users on X.
Yes.
Okay, but it's still around 2,000, 3,000.
On Redlux, when I had that account, I had around 60,000 followers.
I blocked five people in total.
Open Source Hardware Push00:04:07
That's it.
Like from since the beginning of my life.
Wow.
Five.
Five.
I mean, so that's like, anyway.
So in China, and these are all real people, right?
90% of the people that I talk to realize what's going on in the Middle East, even though information is very sporadic.
And they don't get the most up to date information a lot of the times.
Like, they understand what's going on a lot more because I think, in a way, China, like with this Middle Eastern war, they're not in it.
So, they're looking, like the Chinese citizens, they're looking at the situation a lot more impartially than, let's say, the mega crowd in America.
Like, those guys are really invested in Donald Trump.
That you tell them that paints Donald Trump in a even slightly negative light, they would jump on your ex post or whatever to troll you.
Yeah.
That's what I think.
Yeah.
That's true.
Yeah.
Okay.
Very interesting.
Good to know.
And I have at least just one more important area to ask you about.
And I want to be respectful of your time.
Are you okay for like five more minutes?
I'm okay.
Yeah.
Okay.
Great.
I'm really enjoying this conversation.
So thank you again for your time.
Let's talk about AI because I'm a big fan of open source AI.
I'm an AI developer.
I've developed numerous platforms that are very popular.
And I love the open source models that come out of China.
DeepSeq is supposed to be releasing version four soon.
Quen from Alibaba is well known.
In fact, I just downloaded Quen 3.6, and they have really great coding models, et cetera.
US AI companies have gone more kind of closed, secretive, like let's do contracts with the government.
And not really like Anthropic is taking away cloud code from most of its customers right now, things like that.
So I see this weird thing happening where China is still open source.
Let's put it out there for free, put it on GitHub, and it's good.
It's good stuff.
It's not like subpar tech.
But then the US AI companies are all, they're not publishing the science papers.
The best science papers are coming out of DeepSeq, like sparse attention papers, manifold constrained hyperconnections, all this kind of stuff.
What's going on, Eric?
Can you make sense of that?
Yeah, absolutely.
I think because the Chinese hardware for AI is a little bit behind the US, as you mentioned, right?
Because China is still trying to develop the machines that enable them to make high end chips or integrated circuits that allow them to make the powerful.
Hardware that allows them to run these powerful AI.
So I think China understands what is lacking and is going a different route compared to its US counterparts by doing this open source so that what it lacks on the hardware side, potentially it might do even better than the Americans on the software side by.
Like again, open source, allowing people who really know what's going on, who can contribute to the ecosystem to improve their software at the same time, allow the software to be used by as many people as possible.
And as we know, technology is all about usability, right?
So the more people use it, the better it gets.
So that's the direction that I think China is going.
In this juncture, because of the, you know, like I said, the hardware situation.
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Well, that makes perfect sense.
And there's a lot of innovation that can take place in software alone and in, you know, pre training and things like that.
So we're all very interested in the DeepSeq version 4 release.
But let me ask you a follow up to that, which is the cultural acceptance of AI.
My understanding, and please correct me if I'm wrong, my understanding is that in China, at least in the cities, in the, you know, the active, younger, working, Entrepreneurs and so on, they embrace AI.
They love it.
They use it.
They integrate it.
In America, what I run into, especially among conservatives and especially Christians, is just fear of AI or rejection of AI or, you know, like it's the devil and stuff like that.
There's a very big cultural difference.
Do you see that as well?
I do.
So, I mean, there's a term called AI slop.
Okay.
Yeah.
And in America, I see the more conservative older crowd always use that term.
I never see it in China.
Never.
Really?
So there you go.
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
I don't even know what that term would be in Chinese, by the way.
They don't have one, exactly.
Oh, yeah.
Okay.
Yeah, they don't have one.
Okay.
Well, that's very interesting.
All right.
Let me give out your handle one more time.
It's KingKong9888, and that's on X. Is there anything else you want to mention here, Eric, before we wrap this up?
Well, I think, Michael, just before I leave, I think.
I want to tell your audience that given the geopolitical situation that we're in, and that the entire world is in the process of.
I don't like to use that term all the time, but I guess I have to: de-dollarization.
Or, like, you know, countries just shifting away from US Treasury bonds because of the enormous debt that the US carries.
This process is just going to accelerate with the situation in the Middle East.
Therefore, I always advise my audience to buy some physical gold and silver.
I know that.
You know, the prices for physical gold and silver may dump a bit if a liquidity squeeze, US dollar liquidity squeeze happens, which is likely.
If, let's say, Donald Trump decides to put boots on the ground in Iran, we can see that because that means that the war is not going to end very quickly and the revenue disruptions for these GCC countries is going to intensify.
Therefore, they might have to sell US Treasury bonds and anything that they have their hands on that is liquid.
And that might affect gold and silver prices.
But even then, I tell my audience to just dollar cost average and buy physical gold and silver to protect themselves in the long run.
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You and I have the same message.
I say the same thing.
It's the best insurance against currency devaluation, which obviously is happening even more rapidly now with the dollar.
I think that's great advice, Eric.
Completely agree with you.
And everybody that stacked gold and silver has been very happy about it, where it is now compared to, you know, even two years ago.
So that's great advice.
Thank you so much.
With that, I'll wrap it up unless you have anything else to add.
Is that it?
I'm all good, Mike.
Thank you again for inviting me to your show.
Thank you so much, Eric.
It's been an honor having you on.
Please do not disconnect because it has to finish uploading your.
Your side, but let me just wrap it up for the audience and I'll stop the recording.
Thank you all for listening.
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And be sure to follow Eric's account if you're on X.
It's King Kong 9888.
And I think you'll enjoy his post there because I certainly do.
Thank you for listening.
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