Steve Pieczenik - OPUS 213 This is War! Trump Wins!
Aired: 2020-04-08
Duration: 05:20

[00:00:02]  Hi, this is Dr.
[00:00:03]  Bachini.
[00:00:03]  Today I want to try to explain what I think is going on both in the United States and around the world.
[00:00:09]  For the most part, I think this coronavirus epidemic or pandemic has been started by China and is part of what I would consider a biological warfare or psychological warfare that's been going on with China for the past couple of years.
[00:00:23]  But I'll get into that in a few seconds.
[00:00:25]  The first thing that's important to realize is that Trump has done an amazing job.
[00:00:30]  He's tried to calm all the governors.
[00:00:32]  He's provided all the finances required for our states and individual businesses.
[00:00:38]  He understands that the small businesses, 30 million of them, need cash.
[00:00:43]  And he brought in Mnuchin, who's done an excellent job, and several other people in his community, as well as Mike Pence, who's really taken over and showed his mettle.
[00:00:53]  The most important part of this is really the war with China.
[00:00:57]  And why do I bring it up?
[00:00:59]  The tip-off to me was the presence of a young woman who was ostensibly working for Pluto newspapers or some front for the Chinese Communist Party that he picked up right away.
[00:01:11]  Trump said, you're part of mainland China.
[00:01:13]  She lied, and part of China is lying all the time.
[00:01:17]  And what is the issue that's really coming up with China?
[00:01:20]  When I first wrote about war with China, that was 30 years ago, and it was in a book called Blood Heat and Pax Pacifica.
[00:01:28]  But 10 years ago, there was a far more serious problem.
[00:01:32]  In 2013, President Xi came to power.
[00:01:36]  He came in as a communist.
[00:01:37]  He eliminated any capability to vote for a new president or a new committee.
[00:01:42]  He in turn brought in all of his cronies.
[00:01:45]  But what happened in the meantime is he created an economic engine that was destroyed by Trump.
[00:01:51]  What do I mean?
[00:01:52]  The growth rate in China was 6%, or at least he claimed it was 6%.
[00:01:57]  In turn, he created all the manufacturing supply systems for the United States and the world.
[00:02:03]  So he had what was called one belt, one road.
[00:02:06]  It included about 120 countries that would be beholden to China.
[00:02:11]  But what happened was Trump interfered with that economic plan.
[00:02:17]  He basically said to Xi, look, either you work with me or you work against me.
[00:02:23]  And he said it to the reporter yesterday.
[00:02:25]  He said, either you're going to have an agreement with me or not.
[00:02:28]  That was a warning to Xi because he knows Xi is very weak.
[00:02:31]  For the past year and a half, I've been saying on this show that I think Xi has been taken over or he is about to lose his position as the chief of the Communist Party and the head of China.
[00:02:44]  And the reason I say that is several fold.
[00:02:46]  Number one, he never had a strong hold on China.
[00:02:50]  Number two, all of his cronies came out of a specific group.
[00:02:54]  Number three, the Uyghurs who are basically Muslim Chinese are in the military and the police and they have no loyalty to the Communist Party.
[00:03:04]  Number four, the Deng Xiaoping family, including the boy who was in the wheelchair, is far more powerful and they're looking to take over the power from Xi.
[00:03:14]  In turn, Xi allowed...
[00:03:16]  The virus to come in either from Italy or allowed it to come from Wuhan to Italy.
[00:03:22]  The point of fact is that there were over 300 to 500 Chinese laborers in Italy that controlled both the factories and the banks.
[00:03:31]  In turn, they came back to China in January for their holiday in the new year.
[00:03:36]  I in turn got sick from a Chinese student who was sent over here Unintentionally, and I got the coronavirus pneumonia.
[00:03:45]  I said that in January.
[00:03:46]  In turn, what happened is that more and more Chinese had come in here as students, as visitors, and they used the organization called the Confucius Society to permeate the communist ideology.
[00:04:00]  Then what happened is Trump, within a month or two months, began to realize that, in fact, We had to stop the Chinese aggression because there are two elements that make the Chinese aggression powerful.
[00:04:12]  First, it's the Middle Kingdom complex, which means that for centuries China has felt, irrespective of its ideology, that it's entitled to be a world power.
[00:04:22]  The second imperative is called Thucydides' ideology, Thucydides' trap.
[00:04:29]  Now, Thucydides was an Athenian historian who said 5,000 years ago the following, that in order for a superpower to be taken over, a rising power has to basically threaten that superpower.
[00:04:43]  That's called the Thucydides' trap.
[00:04:46]  It's a very big tongue twister, but it's in fact very accurate.
[00:04:50]  China was a rising power and it had to compete with America.
[00:04:54]  In that process, China has been losing.
[00:04:58]  Mao Zedong once said that power comes out from the guns.
[00:05:03]  Trump has said that power really rises from economy, psychology, and the will to be great.
[00:05:11]  On that note, I leave you good luck and good night.
[00:05:19]  I forgot the book.