China in Crisis: Xi Cornered

Trump's 155% tariff countdown is underway. The United States and Australia are joining forces with a $2.2 billion plan to build a rare earths alliance, squeezing the CCP's lifeline. The rare earths gambit has backfired. Exports are being choked off. Nine PLA full generals have fallen. And after 12 years of anti-corruption, the more they fight, the more corrupt it becomes. Xi Jinping is trapped in a dead end of total loss of control. This Trump summit isn't just a diplomatic meeting. It's a life and death judgment on the CCP system. Don't miss the next drop. Subscribe and hit the bell. Trump is set to meet Xiinping, but this time it's not handshakes and small talk. It's a showdown at the negotiating table. The US announced the 155% tariff countdown is on. If Beijing doesn't yield, starting in November, all Chinese exports will face blanket tariff hikes. Meanwhile, the US and Australia signed a rare earths deal with 2.2 $2 billion poured into a gallium refinery in Western Australia. Translation: The CCP's last rare earth's bargaining chip is fully diffused. With the rare earths war backfiring, the internal circulation, economy collapsing, foreign trade blocked, and nine full generals purged from the military, she is still shouting, "Highquality development domestically while extending an invitation for Trump to visit China abroad." Even more absurd, after 12 years of anti-corruption, the CCP is more corrupt than ever. From Xang Zmen's legacy of graph to she's oneman power structure, the entire system is rotting itself to death. This Trump summit isn't just a diplomatic meeting. It's a mortal clash between two systems. A 155% tariff, rare earth's blowback, and a military purge. This time, Beijing may not be able to hold on. 155% tariff countdown final battle. At this year's apex summit in South Korea, a Trump X she meeting may take place. US President Trump clearly laid out the issues to discuss with CCP leader Jinping, including rare earths, soybeans, and fentinil. With the Taiwan issue also on the list on October 20th, while meeting Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Trump said the US would reach a trade agreement with Beijing. Trump met the Australian PM at the White House to sign AU. SA Australia Rareears agreement. The latest US move to counter the CCP's Rareears leverage. After the announcement, Australian Rareear mining stocks surged on October 21st. Rare Earth's chip scrapped. Us. Australia alliance strikes back. Right now, China controls about 70% of global rare earth mining and 90% of processing. These materials are widely used in defense equipment, computer chips, and automobiles. The US also announced it would invest in building an advanced gallium refinery in Western Australia with an annual capacity of 100 tons with the US export import bank prepared to provide about $2.2 billion in financing. In recent months, the Trump administration has announced investments in multiple firms, including US Rare Earth Miner MP Materials, Canada's Trilogy Metals, and Lithium Americas, companies with development projects inside the United States. In return, the US side acquired equity stakes in these firms. Australia is a key supplier of critical minerals. Due to environmental risks, refining has largely been done in China, ironically, becoming the CCP's leverage for rare earth blackmail. Beyond the rare earth's deal, Trump said the multi-billion dollar AA submarine cooperation is full speed ahead. Trump added that the most important task is to reach a fair trade deal with Beijing. Over the past few months, the US and China have held talks in London, Geneva, Stockholm, and Madrid, with the most crucial issue being rare earths. Early this month, the CCP suddenly rolled out new rare earth export controls. The Trump administration immediately hit back with a 100% tariff. Beijing stance softened and both sides agreed to launch a new round of trade talks. On October 20th, US Trade Representative Jameson Greer accused Beijing of economic coercion, issuing a warning. Greer said attempts at intimidation won't stop the US from rebuilding its shipyards nor prevent us from responding appropriately to the CCP's practices. Last week, Treasury Secretary Bay told the Financial Times that Beijing, amid its own economic weakness, wants to drag other countries down via rare earth export controls, but the biggest victim will still be the CCP itself. As for Taiwan, Trump said, "I think that will be one of the topics, but I won't talk about it now." on the possibility of a CCP invasion of Taiwan. Trump stressed that US military deterrence far exceeds other countries, not even in the same league, because the US possesses the most powerful military force to date. We have the best of everything. No one will mess with us. I don't believe President Xi will do that on Taiwan and other issues. I think we'll have very good talks. Trump also refuted the claim that the CCP leads the West in military development. He told reporters, "You're reading the wrong papers. We are far ahead of communist, China, and AI. And from the standpoint of advanced weapons, we are far ahead militarily as well." Trump added, "We also have weapons many people have never even heard of, and those programs were ones I launched four years ago. I rebuilt the military four years ago." US author Bob Woodward in his book Rage wrote that Trump revealed the US possesses a secret cuttingedge nuclear capability unknown even to Shi and Putin. According to the Washington Post, Woodward later confirmed with US military officials that such a new secret weapon system exists, though they gave no details. Trump said he had received an invitation to visit Beijing probably early next year. It's basically set. If the CCP continues unfair competition, Trump will trigger tariffs, a powerful tool in the US arsenal. At that point, Beijing will sit down and reach a deal. Trump said tariffs force the CCP to pay huge sums to the US Treasury. Current tariffs stand at 55%, a lot of money. If there's no agreement, starting November 1st, they may have to pay 155%. Beijing will pay hundreds of millions in tariffs each year. Tariffs hit harder than rare earths. Beyond a certain point, Beijing can't do business with the US at all. Esta, China trade is China's economic lifeline. Cut it and China is in big trouble. Beset inside and out. She trapped in a dead end. Xi Jinping is indeed in deep trouble. The BBC reported that after 12 years of tigers and flies anti-corruption, senior CCP officials are more corrupt than ever. Why? It's a chicken and egg loop. Some say she, the accelerator chief, is a king of unfinished projects who started with a strong hand, winning public support via anti-corruption, only to misidentify the most dangerous man in the world, Wong Huning, as his ideologue, veering leftward and squandering that strong hand. Others ask, did she ruin a good hand or was it a mess to begin with? As one nizen put it, it was a mess and he kept playing it into pulp. Still, she could be called a genius of unfinished business. The communist mess just happened to meet the king of unfinished projects. It's hard to see how the CCP could not collapse. British media says she's tigers, flies, and foxes campaign catered to the deeply rooted Chinese reverence for honest officials and hatred of corruption. Leveraging that public sentiment, he did build an initial wave of political prestige. Now on the eve of the 20th CCP 4th pleum the authorities announced in one go that nine PLA full generals fell eight of them central committee members. This suggests that after 12 years of anti-corruption storms China is in the midst of an even larger anti-corruption wave and the total number of central committee members to be removed at this pleina may set a record. One can't help asking why after over a decade of high pressure anti-corruption is grafted even more rampant. Wu Mulan, associate professor at the Lee Kuanu School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, believes CCP anti-corruption bodies lack independence and thus can't solve the problem. Places like Singapore and Hong Kong that curb corruption have truly independent bodies. In China, who gets caught is decided from above, by the very top. Wu said CCP anti-corruption is top down, driven by she's personal will. It's hard to predict what and when he'll act. These corruption cases never really get finished. It's just a question of when they're handled. Moreover, without an independent judiciary and civil society oversight, anti-corruption is handled internally by the party, easily seen as political struggle or purge, even if it isn't. The CCP's corruption is systemic and institutional. As long as the CCP exists, corruption will exist. Thus, in she's 13 years in power, despite endless crackdowns, corruption is worse. China analyst Wong Yoan sees three main reasons. First, the mess left by Jang Zmen untreated. Jangs hallmark was ruling by corruption, turning the party into a vast marketplace for trading power, money, and sex. In the military, polit bureau member and CMC vice chairman Guushong and Su Kaiho were the worst offenders. Under them, corruption flooded the PLA like a damn burst. Air Force General Lu Yaou, then political commasar of the National Defense University, said on July 6th, 2016, "During the decade when Gua and Su controlled the CMC, what did the army become? A giant bazaar. Everything had a price. Under their grip, the army became a swamp. One that trapped not the enemy but ourselves." In short, during Jangs rule and his time as Emperor Emmeritus, he turned the CCP into the most corrupt party in the world. Second, the mess left by Deng Xiaoping untreated. After June 4th, Dengs high-profile reform and opening became a way for princling families to get rich quietly using the power of their fathers and grandfathers, an unstoppable tide of corrupt wealth among all party elites. Third, the mess created by Shione medddling, also untreated. From his second term on, she veered left, harked back to cultural revolution logic, and sought to become Mao 2.0, zero, shifting from centralized to personalist rule. As a result, he offended virtually every faction at the top. Domestic and foreign policy are a mess, and aside from a tiny elite, most Chinese have seen no benefit. On the contrary, voices cursing, opposing, and calling for she's removal grow by the year, now almost one-sided. Overseas, anyone who doesn't criticize, she gets criticized. It's fair to say she has reached a dead end and stands alone. In short, the cancer of CCP corruption cannot be cured by the CCP's own anti-corruption.