Why U.S. Strategy on China Misses the Real Battlefield

Hi, everyone. Welcome. Welcome to Lazeville Talk. All right. Wow. Chris is back as the moderator. Welcome, Chris. All right. Okay. So today's program is inspired by the Winter Olympics. People have asked me about Aileen Gu and Alyssa Liu. I haven't done a program on that, but tonight we will. But the topic is slightly different. We'll talk about the United States' most cost-effective strategy to contain China peacefully. So those of you who have followed me for a while know I have consistently offered two core recommendations. First, break down the CCP's internet firewall and give Chinese people free access to information. Because once people can see the truth for themselves, it becomes much harder for the CCP to keep them trapped in propaganda and brainwashing. Second, bring Chinese-American communities into the strategic equation. Actually, I shouldn't say Chinese-American communities. I should say Chinese communities around the world, not just Chinese. It could be Chinese-Canadian, Chinese-French. Because I live in the United States, I tend to think Chinese-American communities. So bringing the Chinese diaspora communities into the equation or strategic equation is critical because the CCP has systematically weaponized people's nostalgia, cultural ties, and emotional attachment to the quote-unquote homeland, and used them to pull parts of the Chinese diaspora onto its geopolitical war wagon against the West. Even though they live in the U.S., Canada, or other parts of the world, many Chinese are still subject to CCP's brainwashing, harassment, and coercive pressure. And this is precisely part of the CCP's unrestricted warfare. For a long time, Western governments and politicians have largely turned a blind eye to it. I'm glad to say that we're moving closer to both of these goals. We're not there yet, but the direction is clearly changing, and the progress is real. First, I'd like to update you that the U.S. government is now preparing to roll out new programs aimed directly at countering the CCP's censorship program. President Reagan famously said in 1987, he said, Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall. Today, the Trump administration is doing its share to tear down the CCP's firewall. I'll talk about that. And then at the same time, the stories of two Olympians, Aileen Gu and Alyssa Liu, have unexpectedly triggered a global conversation about overseas Chinese identity, loyalty, pressure, and the complex relationship between the diaspora and the CCP. Now, Aileen Gu and Alyssa Liu have been compared side by side by many people, by many media outlets. They both grew up near San Francisco. They both come from single-parent Chinese immigrant families. They're both exceptionally talented athletically. And yes, both are beautiful, but they are very, very different. Aileen knows how to say the right things in front of the camera. She walks a delicate balance, enjoying the privileges and benefits offered by both China and the United States. Her public persona, as well as her image, are polished, almost too perfect to feel genuine. In that sense, Aileen fits the profile of a classic, or I shouldn't say classic, I should say a typical Chinese superstar. Too polished. Alyssa Liu, on the other hand, feels genuine and carefree. She speaks her mind. She acts like a 20-year-old, sometimes impulsive, sometimes rebellious, sometimes honest. She is who she is, and you can't mistake that. Her enthusiasm and love for her sport are what carried her to gold. In that sense, Alyssa feels very American. Who they became didn't happen by accident. Their paths were shaped very deeply by their parents. Aileen Gu's mother and Alyssa Liu's father both came from China, but they represent two very different segments of the Chinese-American community, and this is the part most people in the West don't fully see. The CCP maintains a tight grip on this community, while Western society has largely been blind to the internal pressures, political risks, and survival strategies many Chinese-Americans live with. It wasn't until their daughters became global headlines that this hidden world suddenly entered public view. People say for the first time that they realize how different or how divided this community really is. So today's program is about more than just two athletes. It's about the community behind them. Because if the West does not truly understand this community, if it does not learn how to engage with it intelligently and respectfully, then the chances of winning the long-term contest with Beijing are, frankly speaking, not optimistic in my view. So let me start by telling you about what I call the tearing down of the firewall. I think it's called the Freedom Project. According to Fox News, Reuters, and other major outlets, under the leadership of U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the U.S. government has launched an online platform codenamed Freedom.gov. And this isn't just another tech experiment. This is a core pillar of Trump's second-term foreign policy, aimed straight at global internet censorship and information blockades. So who is this really targeting? China? Iran? Russia? Any country that enforces strict internet control? In the past, tools to break censorship were mostly built by NGOs, activists, or tech companies. This time, Freedom.gov is backed directly by the U.S. government. And this project is being pushed by the Deputy Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy. Her name is Sarah Rogers, who also oversees the State Department's Digital Freedom Office. And she said it very clearly. This is the latest effort by the U.S. government, basic human freedom. Now the platform comes with serious technical muscle behind it. First, it's fully open source, meaning developers around the world can inspect the code, improve it, and distribute it. Second, one-click anonymous access. It uses advanced VPN-style routing, making the user's traffic appear to come from inside the U.S. So you can bypass geo-blocking and censorship filters. Third, no user tracking. They promise not to lock user activity. Privacy is a core design principle. Fourth, multi-platform support. Phones, computers, it's designed to be simple and accessible for ordinary users. Actually, if you go to the website, you see a white horse galloping across the earth. Actually, here we go. And right beneath it, there's a slogan. It says, information is power. Reclaim your human rights to free expression. Get ready. I was told that this message was also translated in Chinese, if you try to open it from Chinese-speaking region. I haven't tested, but that's what I heard. And there are unconfirmed reports suggesting that in the future, this platform may integrate with Elon Musk's Starlink satellite network. So that means it cuts off ground-based internet in an entire country or region. People could still receive real information directly from space through Starlink satellites. In other words, you cannot fully cut people off anymore. So once this platform fully goes live, it could give hundreds of millions of Chinese users a stable, secure channel to the outside world. This will mark a turning point. Like I said before, the fight for internet freedom looked like guerrilla warfare. Small groups of activists and tech volunteers operating in the shadows. Now it's starting to look like state-level, regular army operations. So when the CCP's great firewall is torn down, the impact on China's future is enormous. And I mean enormous. Without censorship, the regime wouldn't last a month. It would collapse under the weight of truth. So in that sense, freedom.gov isn't just a tool. It's a death knell for the CCP's information monopoly, and potentially for the regime itself. So that's great news. Now let's talk about my second recommendation, which is the Chinese diaspora communities. Up to this point, many Americans haven't fully understood how divided and fragile this community really is, and how much pressure and coercion from Beijing it has to live under. I say Alyssa Liu's father and Ai Linggu's mother represent two very different segments of this community. But before we get into their differences, let me start with what they have in common. Like many mainland Chinese who came to the U.S., both are highly intelligent and academically accomplished. Ai Linggu's mother attended Beijing University, one of China's top schools. She came to the U.S. at age 22 on a full scholarship to study biochemistry and molecular biology at Auburn University. I think later she worked at Rockefeller University. And Alyssa Liu's father also attended a top university in China, Zhongshan University in Guangzhou. Do I have a picture of him? There we go. And after coming to the United States, he went to law school in California and later opened his own law practice there. Both parents are extremely driven and competitive individuals. Ai Linggu's mother, Gu Yan, was an athlete in college. She wasn't satisfied with staying in the sciences, so she went on to earn an MBA from Stanford University. Let me go back to her. And she was called one of the earliest Chinese women to work on Wall Street. And then Arthur Liu, on the other hand, arrived in the U.S. with no money. He worked in Chinese restaurants while going to school. He first earned an MBA and then went on to obtain a law degree and eventually opened his practice. He's a single father of five, works seven days a week, and once said in an interview that he never has a moment of leisure, that he always runs instead of walks. So beyond these superficial comparisons, the two parents are radically different. Now, Gu Yan came from—oh, here's Alyssa Liu's father in his 20s. Well, let's talk about this woman. So Gu Yan came from a family with government connections. Some netizens claim her parents worked for the Ministry of Transportation in Beijing. Arthur Liu, by contrast, came from a small village in Sichuan. I'm trying to match the image with the content. So, yeah, he is from a small village in Sichuan. He organized student protests during the 1989 pro-democracy movement and became one of the most wanted fugitives in Guangzhou after the crackdown. He fled to Hong Kong and later made his way to the United States. He was only 25 at the time. And it is what happened after they arrived in the U.S., more specifically, their relationship with China after arriving, that truly sets them apart. So let's start with Gu Yan's path in the U.S. Now, according to a Chinese activist living in the U.S., his name is Wu Jiaming. Aileen Gu's mother began her career on Wall Street, and she allegedly worked at Lehman Brothers. She might have been one of the earliest Wall Street investors. Not only is she one of the earliest women working on Wall Street, she might even have been one of the earliest investors investing in China. And according to a 1998 feature interview in China's Science and Technology Information magazine, there she was. Her company was the first information technology enterprise in China to introduce a U.S. venture capital model. The article also said she helped arrange a $200 million U.S. loan for China, setting a precedent for Wall Street's commercial lending to China, and that she personally managed a $1.3 billion U.S. transaction. In the 1980s and 1990s, there were very few Chinese professionals on Wall Street. Chinese women were even rarer. So Mr. Wu Jiaming said in his post that this gave these Chinese women a natural advantage in the U.S., in the American dating and marriage market. That's his exact words. It sounds brutal, but that's what he said. Ms. Gu Yan navigated the professional world with ease and soon met an older British aristocrat. At the time, China's reform and opening up was surging forward. At Gu Yan's origin, the British aristocrat invested $8 million U.S. dollars in her. In 1990, that was an astronomical amount. Ms. Gu Yan took the $8 million back to Beijing to start a business. She founded a company called Dongfang Weber Information Technology Company and served as the company's chairwoman. Using the company and her position for her personal gain, she allegedly siphoned off most of the $8 million U.S. dollars into her own personal pocket. When the British nobleman eventually found out, he was angry. In an attempt to bring her in, the British nobleman arranged a shareholder's meeting in Las Vegas. Ms. Gu Yan didn't know what she was up against. As soon as she landed, she was sued by American lawyers, and ultimately she was sentenced to five years in prison. After completing her sentence, she disappeared from public view for a long time. Her whereabouts were unknown. Former classmates and old acquaintances lost contact with her almost entirely. Later, some people spotted her in Silicon Valley, and after that, her daughter Aileen Gu was born. So to this day, very few people know who Aileen Gu's biological father is. So Ms. Gu Yan is widely described as a successful investor in Silicon Valley, and she takes her daughter to China every year. Aileen Gu, as a result, speaks fluent Chinese. So in short, Ms. Gu has maintained strong ties to China throughout the decades she has lived in the United States. Okay, so that's her life. Now let's move on to Arthur Liu's life. His life followed a very different path. He continued to openly criticize the CCP's human rights abuses when he was in the US. He often organized protests in front of the Chinese consulate in San Francisco, calling on the CCP to respect human rights. As he put it, he said, Because of this, for many years, the CCP never stopped targeting Arthur Liu with espionage activities. Since the 1990s, agents followed him, gathered intelligence on him, and even tried to befriend him. He later recalled that one of his close friends eventually admitted, many years later, that he had been assigned by the CCP to spy on him. At first, Arthur had no idea. It was only many years later that the friend confessed. And Liu said, he said, Now, fast forward to October 2021, the FBI contacted him and warned him that he was facing an espionage-related fraud risk. At the time, his 16-year-old daughter was preparing for the Beijing Winter Olympics in February 2022. He chose not to tell his daughter about the warning, fearing it would frighten her and distract her. And he said that when Alyssa was about 13, he reposted content on Instagram about the CCP detaining Uyghurs in labor camps in Xinjiang. In another Instagram post, Alyssa wrote that he was proud of what her father had done for his people in 1989. So Arthur believes the CCP knew his daughter was likely to compete at the Beijing Winter Olympics, and the authorities feared that the father and might use that stage to publicly criticize the regime. And that, he said, is why they were placed under surveillance. Now, later, the CCP offered Arthur Liu big sums of money for Alyssa to compete for China. He refused. In fact, Alyssa was the first on Beijing's list of targeted athletes. Not Ailin Gu. Ailin Gu wasn't the first athlete that Beijing wanted. But Arthur made it clear that his daughter wouldn't compete for China. Now, later, Liu told the media that he only agreed to let his daughter compete in Beijing on the condition that the U.S. State Department and the U.S. Olympic Committee guarantee her safety while in China, with at least two people accompanying her at all times. All right. I mean, there are many other stories about Alyssa and her father, but I'm going to skip those parts. You probably have already seen them in other media reports. Now, I want to offer you my view. I have many friends who are like Arthur Liu, people who have the courage to speak up against the CCP. They constantly face harassment, intimidation, and surveillance. And despite all of that, they hold on to their core values and refuse to cave in. I also have many friends who are more like Ailin Gu's mother, people who want the best of both worlds. They travel back and forth between China and the U.S., looking for opportunities to enrich themselves. They never dare to criticize Beijing, but they are outspoken when it comes to criticizing the United States, because they know there will be no consequences if they speak out against the U.S. here. While these people enjoy the freedom and opportunities this free market society offers them, they still quote-unquote miss the privileges they enjoy in China, simply because of who they are. They tend to forget if they weren't Americans, they would have no value to the CCP. They are given the privilege precisely because they are Americans. But these people like to say, I'm Chinese when I'm in China, and American when I'm in the U.S. I have to be honest with you. People like Arthur Liu are the minority. People like Ailin Gu's mother represent the majority within the Chinese community. I don't speak for the large Chinese community. I speak for the mainland Chinese community, people who originally came from China. So for Arthur Liu and his daughter to stick to their values and principles and to have the courage to say no to Beijing is truly rare. Not many people can do that. There are very few people in the Chinese community who dare to speak up. Not a lot of people would admit this, and not a lot of people would tell you about this. Based on what I've seen for the past 20-some years, 20, 30 years, that is the brutal truth. Even fewer would be willing to turn down offers worth tens of millions of dollars. And that's why those who dare to speak out need our support. You may ask me, who are they? Who are those people who dare to speak out? Let me pause and take a sip of water. Do you like my mug? It has a classic Chinese poem printed on it. Anyways, let's talk about who are the people brave enough to speak up in the Chinese community. There are the Chinese dissidents, people who have become persona non grata, and Falun Gong practitioners. Falun Gong is the largest and the most resilient diaspora group that has taken a clear, sustained stance against the CCP for more than two decades. Like Arthur Liu, many of them face harassment, surveillance, and intimidation, even here in the U.S. Just take a look at the number of bomb threats their performing arts group, Shen Yun Performing Arts, has received during its world tours. Even the Kennedy Center in D.C. received a malicious bomb threat on the opening day of Shen Yun's performances, their run last year. And look at more than a dozen hit pieces the New York Times has published targeting Shen Yun. So if you dig deeper, you're going to start to see CCP's fingerprints behind these smear campaigns. If they spend that amount of effort on Arthur Liu, an individual alone, you would imagine how much effort they have on other groups. And because of CCP's long reach inside the U.S. and their tight control of this community, many in the Chinese diaspora end up taking the same position as Aileen Gu and her mother. They avoid human rights issues. They don't want to talk about freedom. They know how to walk the line, how to walk the fine line, and how to work both systems to benefit themselves. In Chinese, there's a term for this. Or in English, they're called the refined egoists. So now let's go back to Aileen Gu. Now when she was just 15, that was in 2019, she formally decided for the first time to stop representing Team USA and instead compete internationally for China. Where did she go? There we go. That decision was strongly pushed and supported by her mother. I mean, a 15-year-old girl who grew up in California would not have the idea of competing for our country. That's so far away. It's clearly influenced by her mother. And even Aileen herself admitted this. She explained that behind the decision were long discussions with her mother. And in reality, as Aileen Gu's legal guardian, Ms. Gu Yan has been the behind-the-scenes decision maker in almost everything from training to competition to media exposure. So under her mother's management, in 2025, Aileen Gu became the fourth highest paid female athlete in the world. According to Forbes global ranking of the highest paid female athletes, her total income last year was about 23 million US dollars, ranking fourth worldwide. But unlike the other three ahead of her, only about $100,000 of Aileen Gu's 23 million income came from competition prize money. And this Winter Olympics, she is the highest earning female athlete. And even top US ice hockey star, Austin Matthews, can't compare. So where does all the money come from, right? Well, according to an official document from the Beijing Municipal Sports Bureau that was accidentally released and then quickly deleted, people saw in the report, over the past three years, the Chinese government gave Aileen Gu and another American, a US-born skater, Chinese-American skater, her name is Beverly Zhu. She competed in the 2022 Beijing Olympics, but we don't see her anymore. But she didn't do well at all. I mean, the Chinese system, I don't think she can do well in that system. But anyways, so in three years, the two of them got 14 million US dollars, not in yuan, in dollars, 14 million US dollars, just for training facilities and preparation. I think Aileen got the bulk of it. And I don't think their training facilities cost that much money. But this is just from Beijing Municipal Sports Bureau. They've paid the two athletes 14 million US dollars in three years. And most recently, Aileen Gu even became a partner at Silicon Valley's top venture capital firm called Benchmark, serving as a senior investment manager. Okay. I don't know if that venture company still wants to keep her. Anyway, so Beijing has been using its international resources to prop up Aileen Gu as a globally sought-after transnational IP brand. That's without a doubt. She was on the cover of Time magazine before the Olympics. I think her PR team definitely used China's national resources to promote her. And when asked about the well-documented genocide against Uyghur Muslims, she responded, she said, I'm not an expert on this. I haven't done the research. I don't think it's my business. I'm not going to make big claims on social media. Now, anyone with clear eyes can see why she said this. Of course, she can't afford to offend the Beijing regime. The vast majority of her wealth comes from China. Now, even though she never says no to the CCP government, she never holds back on criticizing the U.S. government. At the opening of the Olympics, American freestyle skier Hunter Hess publicly condemned the actions of U.S. immigration and custom enforcement. Aileen Gu became one of the few athletes to openly voice, to criticize the U.S. government. Now, if you really think about it, if she had stuck to her previous line, I'm not an expert. I haven't done the research. I don't think it's my business. Many people might have forgiven her because people do not have an issue with her competing for China. People have an issue when she wants to take advantage of both worlds, and that's sneaky. Instead, she kept quiet on China, but then she was very outspoken when it comes to criticizing the U.S. government. She stepped into controversy herself. To be fair, I do not think this was entirely her personal choice. I do not think Aileen Gu has much to say about ICE. I suspect it's her Chinese PR team advising her to comment. After investing so much money in her, the Beijing regime naturally wants to extract every bit of influence they can from her public image. That means whether she likes it or not, she is expected to speak when they want her to speak. Compared to four years ago, the Chinese public enthusiasm for Aileen Gu has clearly cooled, even inside China, because people do not identify her. People do not see her as one of them. It's sad that the Chinese do not see her as one of them, and Americans probably don't accept her as one of them either. One Chinese netizen mocked her this way, saying, A great power in national rejuvenation boasting the most advanced ideas and theories on earth, yet needs an American girl to prop up its image. How absurd. He went on to say, without Aileen Gu, the entire Chinese delegation at the Milan Winter Olympics would collapse. In the end, the stories about Aileen and Alyssa are not just about two athletes. They reflect the worldviews of their parents, and more broadly, they reflect the deep divide within the Chinese diaspora community itself. I even heard Americans say, Alyssa Liu is why we love the Chinese. Aileen Gu is why we don't. That may sound harsh, but it captures a real emotional response in the West. If the US government wants to succeed in its long-term China strategy, it cannot ignore this community. It has to understand it. It has to engage with it seriously. How do we do that? Well, we need to, first of all, support people like Arthur Liu, because they are fighting a lonely fight. They are the minority. I know how lonely they can be. I mean, I'm one of them. I have stories I could tell you, but I don't want to at this point. Anyway, we need to support people like Arthur Liu. We need to support the Uyghurs, Falun Gong, Shen Yun, all of them, because these are the people who stand up to the CCP. Now, there will always be people like Aileen Gu and her mother. That's the reality. You can't eliminate that dynamic. You can't force them to change overnight. They are not just in the US, they're all over the world. But here's the real question. What happens if people like Arthur Liu stop being the minority and become the majority? Because the regimes don't fall when firewalls fall overnight. They fall when people stop helping to hold them up. If that shift ever happens, then the story of this community and the future of China's relationship with the free world may finally begin to change for the better. I think going back to the freedom.gov project, I think it will make a real difference. When the firewall starts to crumble, people like Aileen Gu and her mother will lose their aura almost overnight. Their prestige is propped up by censorship and propaganda. Once Chinese audiences can see how Americans actually respond to ELISA and to Aileen Gu side by side, the halo around Aileen Gu will inevitably fade. So it all ties in together. I actually received an email yesterday. People asked me if Aileen Gu's mother is a spy. I can't say if she is. She's certainly pro-Beijing. But there are many people like her in the US, and they're not necessarily spies. Just because they're pro-Beijing doesn't mean that they're spies. But they're certainly willing to carry out initiatives, projects, and agenda for Beijing. And that's not in the best interest of the United States. So you can't accuse them for being spies. They're not spies. But they will be involuntarily, inadvertently doing things for Beijing. And that's a great risk. And they're not a small minority. So with that, I hope my two recommendations make a lot of sense to you. All right. Well, today's topic is not gaining a lot of audience, a lot of traction. But that's okay. It's an important topic. People thought that I'm talking about Olympics. I'm not really talking about Olympics. Anyways. All right. Questions? Good morning, everyone. Okay. All right. Someone said, Lei, how does CCP monitor Chinese in foreign countries? Oh, that's easy. Have you heard of WeChat? WeChat, the almighty Chinese app that almost every Chinese uses. That's one method. Because if you're on WeChat, and almost all Chinese Americans, almost everyone who still has family members or business in China uses WeChat. We have WeChat on your cell phone. You pretty much give up all your privacy. And then also, some Chinese individuals in the community are planted by the Chinese authorities to keep an eye on the community. Because this Chinese diaspora is organized through various organizations, like hometown associations, alumni associations, even Chinese schools, even religious church, religious organizations. But there will be individuals planted by the CCP to keep an eye on everyone else. But you don't know who they are. So those are the ones that are key. So you have people, you have real bodies on the ground, keeping track of all the activities and everyone. And they also have digital surveillance. And also, they use money and influence to gain your loyalty and cooperation. So it's very difficult to resist them, based on what I have seen. Okay, that's a good question. Someone said, I don't believe Ailing Gu represents the Chinese very well. Her smile, her composure, her lifestyle, her childhood and freedom does not represent the two Chinese people well at all. You're right. Do the Chinese in mainland China see her as their idol? Not necessarily, because she's an American. The smart Chinese will say, why? Why do you come? Those who do not like the CCP will ultimately question her integrity and sense of judgment. It's like, we hate the CCP so much. And why do you come here to work with this awful regime? People are like, why? Why do you do that? And they say, oh, for money. So you lose credibility once you work with the CCP. And people are smart. People are not dumb. People can tell. So she will not have a market in China over the long run. So Frank NA, do you think China gets enough credit for the game of chess? I love your earrings, by the way. Oh, my earring. Get enough credit, from what sense, for the game of chess? Could you elaborate your question? What do you mean for the game of chess? Okay, Stage Prophet, your insights are wonderful. Thank you so much. Artistic Director, the Great American Plate Series. Thank you. Is Gu Yan a citizen? If she isn't, she should not be deported. I think she's American. She's lived here for a long time. Individuals excel at chess. Nobody really cares about nations. I'm not quite sure about that question. If someone can elaborate it a little bit for me. Jennifer HK, I'm an old American veteran, 76 years old. We need more dialogue between the two people. I'm married to a Thai-American lady for 56 years soon. I agree. The people should have a dialogue, but it's impossible to have a real dialogue with the Chinese people because of censorship, because of firewall. They can't engage with us directly. And that's why this freedom.gov project, I think, will fill that void. Yes. Okay, here's Mr. Shiko Exile. Lei, you need to realize that it's the duty of a patriotic American to speak up against a lawless, anti-democratic administration. Your behavior is a relic of survival under the CCP. My what behavior? It's the duty of a patriotic American to speak up against. I am speaking up. I am a patriotic American. I'm speaking up against the lawless, anti-democratic administration. I'm not quite sure if I get it. Sorry. Okay. Chris forwarded a question from Young McIntosh. Lei, now the more rumors say General Zhang is dead. What do you think the Princetons would do and when? I know the rumors. I have long believed that he was not living. Although I couldn't say that for sure because I can't get any confirmation. But now the rumors started to come out. What will the Princeton do? What will they do? Well, that's a million dollar question. Today, I just heard that four major military leaders, retired military leaders, have endorsed the commander of army to challenge Xi Jinping. Again, that's a rumor. I don't know if it's real or not. I also heard today that Xi Jinping is willing to cave in and he's willing to acknowledge that the investigation for Zhang Youxia is over and that Zhang Youxia will come out of this clean. Again, these rumors cannot be verified. If he's dead, then no matter what Xi Jinping says at this point is irrelevant. I'll talk about that on Thursday. George Washington, 1776. Lei, your beautiful red horses next to your YouTube award are behind your digital icon online and are impossible to see. My beautiful red horses next to my YouTube awards are behind my digital icon. Oh, you want me to bring them over? Here. Aren't they very cute? Oh, I love the sad ones better. Anyways, happy new year. Someone asked me who's coordinating the surveillance operation, setting strategy policies in the US? The Chinese consulate. The Chinese consulate manages the spy networks here. All right. Brian Cobb, I wanted to ask you to make a video about Alyssa Liu, and you did. We love her. Yes, I didn't just want to make a video to talk about her in comparison with Aileen Liu. I think I wanted to put their story in context, and I'm glad I did because once I heard about the project, the freedom.gov project, and I think it's the perfect time to talk about this, their story, Aileen Liu and Alyssa Liu with the freedom.gov project because it's under the umbrella of US China strategy, as I've always proposed. I think it's important. We shouldn't just look at Aileen Liu and Alyssa Liu as two very different young women with a different path, with different parents, but they are truly representative of the divided Chinese American community. And by Chinese American community, I don't mean the bigger community that includes American-born Chinese and Chinese from other parts of the world, like the Chinese people from Hong Kong or Taiwan. I mean the mainland Chinese community. Yeah. Thank you. George Washington. Oh, my horse. Okay, here they are. Okay, I think I answered that question. Today's low attendance, is that because of the state of union address? Yeah. Okay. Someone said, lack all 16. You are the best. By the way, you are a patriotic American for exposing the hypocrisy of the left, of which the CCP is an obvious embodiment. All right. Well, thank you. Alyssa's hairstyle is different. I'm enjoying the idea of the year of the fire horse, followed by the year of the fire goat. Okay. I'm just reading comments. Nori Hero. Did CCP fail at its image propaganda this Olympics? It seems they are busy pushing the Chinese robots narrative instead, because there is so little for them to boast about in the Olympics. Yeah, I think people in China are generally dispirited. Can't you tell? And when athletes are not properly trained, and when people are dejected, when the fundings are not there, of course, they're not going to perform. So yeah. All right. Liu comes from Taiwanese parents. No, Liu does not. Her father came from Sichuan, a village in Sichuan. They're both from mainland China. Okay. Lei, you are more informative than the state of the union. Am I? Okay. All right. Well, I couldn't believe that I beat that one. Okay. Well, that puts a smile on my face, as you can tell. I try to be entertaining. Okay. That's all for tonight. Thank you very much for joining me. And now you can go back. You're now allowed to watch the state of the union. Okay. The session is adjourned. Okay. Bye.