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  Episode #126

  Tiananmen Square 1989: The Communist Party Official's Son Who Stood Against the Party | Orren Wang

  Oct 1, 20261h 5mS3

  Guest: Orren Wang was born in rural China in the early 1960s, just after the famine of 1959 to 1962, to parents who never spent a day in school. His father taught himself to read and was recruited by the Chinese Communist Party as a township-level official; his mother was illiterate all her life and sent her children to a school carved out of the village ancestral hall. Wang taught himself English by radio, took part in the December 1986 student protest in his provincial capital and the nationwide 1989 democracy movement as a graduate student in Chengdu, Sichuan, and came to the United States as a student in 1994. He earned a master's degree in accounting at Western Kentucky University, is a Certified Public Accountant, became a Christian in China, and became a United States citizen fourteen years after he arrived. He has written a memoir about his life in China. This episode is part of The Jenny Beth Show's Surviving Communism series.   Key topics:   • Thirty-three days to Election Day: why The Jenny Beth Show is interviewing survivors of communism, and what the Democratic Socialists of America platform calls for • A famine Wang calls man-made, not natural: farmers who owned nothing and could not feed themselves • The two underpinnings of socialism: no private ownership and central planning • Shortage is the feature: a pound or two of brown sugar per family, once a year • The firecracker craft his neighbors worked at night behind covered windows, and the officials who stormed in and took the tools • The peach orchard the county government uprooted in its prime because peaches were a cash crop • Deng Xiaoping's 1979 reform: one year for the villagers to feed themselves once their hands were untied • A father who taught himself to read outside his cousins' tutoring room and was recruited by the Party • A mother who called herself blind with perfect vision, and the school in the ancestral hall • Ten years with the universities closed: the Cultural Revolution and the professors sent to raise pigs • His son, a UC Berkeley graduate who calls himself a socialist, and why Wang says China's growth proves the opposite • December 1986: a local election with one Party-picked candidate, and the student protest it triggered • Steel quotas, bribery and inflation: the corruption that set up 1989 • Why 1989 was nationwide, not just Beijing, and why the Party almost collapsed • Voice of America, English learned by radio, and the campus bulletin board • May 19, 1989: martial law declared at 11 PM, an all-night march in the rain in Chengdu, two weeks without a voice • June 4, and why a low-profile student was never arrested • TOEFL, the GMAT, and five years to find someone to sign an I-20 • Landing at Los Angeles International Airport with $1,000, and $900 by the time he reached campus • Religious freedom right away: a Friday Bible study that was banned in China • Two years to a job, fourteen years to citizenship, and why he backs President Trump's immigration policy • With God, everything is possible: the billboard on Interstate 65 and the son he kept • His warning to young Americans who want to abolish the police, ICE and the Senate • No doctors in the countryside under socialism • Free markets, antitrust, and why breaking up monopolies is a Republican idea • Calls to action: tell Jenny Beth Martin your survivor story at jenny.beth@teapartypatriots.org, and sign up to get out the vote at iwillsaveamerica.com   Timestamps:   00:00 — Cold open: a Communist Party official's son who stood against the Party 00:30 — Thirty-three days out: why the Surviving Communism series 01:22 — What the Democratic Socialists of America platform calls for 03:00 — Friday panels and one-on-one interviews through Election Day 05:16 — Survivors of communism: tell Jenny Beth Martin your story 07:11 — Ten ways to volunteer at iwillsaveamerica.com 08:20 — Orren Wang joins the show 09:21 — Growing up in rural China after a famine he calls man-made 12:08 — The underpinnings of socialism: no private ownership and central planning 14:06 — Shortage is the feature: sugar rationed once a year 15:40 — The firecracker craft, and the officials who stormed in 18:22 — The peach orchard the county uprooted 19:52 — Deng Xiaoping's reform: one year to feed themselves 21:26 — His father, recruited by the Party as a township official 25:20 — Blind with perfect vision: his mother, and school in the ancestral hall 28:07 — The Cultural Revolution closed the universities for ten years 29:27 — His son, a UC Berkeley socialist, says look at China 30:19 — 1989 was nationwide: December 1986 and the one-candidate election 34:01 — Steel quotas, bribery and inflation: what triggered 1989 36:02 — The Chinese communist government almost collapsed 36:57 — Was he afraid? I actually wasn't in Beijing 38:07 — Voice of America and the campus bulletin board 39:12 — May 19: martial law at 11 PM, an all-night march in the rain in Chengdu 41:18 — June 4 41:56 — Two more years of school, and why he was never arrested 43:31 — TOEFL, GMAT, and five years to find a sponsor 47:11 — Landing at LAX with $1,000 in his pocket 49:50 — The Friday Bible study that was banned in China 50:39 — Two years to a job, fourteen years to citizenship 52:15 — Why he backs President Trump's immigration policy 53:28 — With God, everything is possible 55:43 — The billboard on Interstate 65 57:18 — One last question: his warning to young Americans 59:56 — No doctors in the countryside under socialism 01:01:46 — Break up the monopolies: a Republican idea 01:03:59 — Free markets and less interference: closing thoughts 01:04:40 — Thank you and sign-off   Links mentioned:   jennybethshow.com teapartypatriots.org iwillsaveamerica.com jenny.beth@teapartypatriots.org

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  Episode #125

  Georgia Early Voting in 13 Days & Free Billboards Across America | Bergman, Zawistowski, Biegalski

  Sep 30, 20261h 11mS3

  Guest host: Robert McNeily is Director of Broadcasting and Grassroots Engagement at Tea Party Patriots Action and a former newscaster. He hosts this hour in for Jenny Beth Martin.   Guest: Carmen Bergman is Senior Advisor to Greater Georgia, the voter registration, education and mobilization organization former United States Senator Kelly Loeffler founded in 2021. Greater Georgia launched KnowYourBallotGA.com in September 2026 as a voter guide covering every race and constitutional amendment on Georgia's ballot.   Guest: Tom Zawistowski leads Freedom for All PAC, a federal political action committee, and the We the People Convention, the Ohio organization that grew out of the Portage County Tea Party. Since 2020 his group has produced free billboards for farmers and building owners along high-traffic roads, 103 of them in Ohio in 2024, and it is now offering them nationwide at freedomforallpac.org. He has worked alongside Jenny Beth Martin and Tea Party Patriots since the movement's first bus tour.   Guest: Dr. Kendra Biegalski is Chair of the DeKalb County Republican Party in Georgia. She is a nuclear engineer, a former homeschool mother, and has taught college classes at the undergraduate and graduate level and children with neurodevelopmental disorders.   Key topics:   • 34 days to Election Day: why the host says so goes Georgia, so goes the nation, in a midterm year too • The midterm record: the president's party lost House seats in 28 of 31 midterms from 1902 to 2022, but the Senate flipped in only two of the five modern midterms that flipped the House • 1994 and the Contract with America, 2006, 2010 and the birth of the Tea Party movement, 2018 and 2022 • Does the top of the ticket carry the down-ballot races in Georgia, or the other way around? • About 50,000 Georgia voters stop at the top of the ballot, and what KnowYourBallotGA.com does about it • Early voting opens in Georgia on October 13; Illinois and Virginia are already voting • Greater Georgia's three jobs: registration, education and mobilization • The SAVE America Act, and Georgia's approach to election integrity as never one and done • Reports that Georgia ballots could be matched to the voters who cast them, and the response from the Secretary of State, the Georgia Republican Party and the Republican National Committee • Poll watchers and poll workers from both parties, and the difference between the two • Party voters, single-issue voters, high-information voters and Georgia's split-ticket voters • Persuasion and turnout: you cannot win Georgia without both • Tom Zawistowski's free barn billboard program: why the billboard companies would not sell in 2020, and why 103 billboards survived 2024 • Ohio's Senate race: Sherrod Brown against Jon Husted, and President Trump's Dayton visit for Husted and Vivek Ramaswamy • Why the billboard does not say vote for Republicans, and holding Republicans to the SAVE America Act • Apathy as the biggest political challenge, and defining communism in eight words: Free for them, taken from you • 60 cents per thousand impressions against 65 dollars for television; three million exposures a day in Ohio • Censorship by text carrier, local news nobody trusts, and silos within silos • Reagan's Eleventh Commandment, data centers, fracking, and the grizzly bear and the tiger • A narrow House majority, redistricting, Ohio's Ninth District and the 2030 census • Ohio 2016: 30,000 volunteers, a poll that said Trump by 8, and a win by 8.2 • Running the Republican Party in deep blue DeKalb County: affordability, property taxes up almost 50 percent, schools, public safety • Data centers as a national security issue, from a nuclear engineer who wants communities heard • DeKalb's election board votes 3 to 2 against cleaning the voter rolls; Marc Elias and Democracy Docket • A county 200 police officers short, potholes, and a string of school superintendents • Working with Democrats on nonpartisan issues: education, two school board candidates, poll watchers • The DeKalb candidate slate, meet-and-greets, and a voter registration event at Disability Link • Phone banks, a pizza and postcard party with Tea Party Patriots, and 60,000 Republican votes in DeKalb • This day in American history: the Continental Congress moves to York, the first hydroelectric central station, Wyoming's suffrage constitution, the Hoover Dam, and the first televised World Series • The call to action: IWillSaveAmerica.com, ten things you can do in five minutes, and Georgia's October 5 voter registration deadline at mvp.sos.ga.gov   Timestamps:   00:00 — Cold open: 34 days to the midterms, common sense versus crazy 01:39 — So goes Georgia, so goes the nation: 28 of 31 midterms cost the president's party House seats 03:27 — 1994, 2006, 2010, 2018, 2022: the Senate changed hands only twice 05:17 — Carmen Bergman joins: the top of the ticket and the down-ballot races 06:18 — KnowYourBallotGA.com and the 50,000 voters who stop at the top 06:56 — Early voting opens October 13; Greater Georgia's three goals 08:17 — The SAVE America Act and election integrity in Georgia 09:20 — Reports that ballots could be matched to voters 10:20 — Poll watchers and poll workers; a statewide field organization 11:28 — KnowYourBallotGA.com launch; every constitutional office open 13:28 — Party voters, single-issue voters, split tickets 15:16 — Persuasion and turnout: both sides of the equation 16:11 — IWillSaveAmerica.com: ten things in five minutes 17:02 — Poll worker or poll watcher: the difference 18:27 — Tom Zawistowski joins: freedomforallpac.org 19:54 — 2020: the billboard companies would not sell; barns along the interstates 20:36 — 103 billboards in 2024: Free for them, taken from you 21:50 — Ohio Senate: Sherrod Brown against Jon Husted; President Trump to Dayton 23:16 — Why the billboard does not say vote for Republicans; the SAVE America Act; codifying executive orders 24:56 — The biggest political challenge: apathy 26:10 — No one under 60 knows what a communist is: eight words or less 27:14 — 60 cents per thousand impressions against 65 dollars for TV; 3 million exposures a day 28:35 — Our voice has been muted; billboards in Alaska 29:55 — Local news nobody trusts: 61 million visits down to 41 million; silos within silos 32:36 — Reagan's Eleventh Commandment, data centers and fracking 34:04 — Property taxes, the SAVE America Act and voters saying I am not going to vote 34:28 — The grizzly bear and the tiger 37:04 — Codifying with a narrow majority; Ohio's Ninth District; the 2030 census 38:26 — Josh McKoon on early in-person voting 39:34 — What inspires Tom: Ohio 2016, the NRA, 30,000 volunteers 42:32 — Farewell to Tom; IWillSaveAmerica.com 44:24 — Kendra Biegalski joins: DeKalb County Republicans, small but active 45:31 — Affordability, the gas tax, property taxes up almost 50 percent 46:57 — Data centers as national security, from a nuclear engineer 48:16 — Clean voter rolls voted down 3 to 2; Marc Elias 49:38 — How the county party sets priorities 50:48 — The budget: schools, superintendents, potholes, 200 officers short 52:46 — Growth, data centers and town halls 55:53 — Democrats at the breakfast: education, school board, poll watchers 58:51 — The DeKalb candidate slate 59:57 — Meet-and-greets and Disability Link 01:01:23 — Low-propensity voters: phone bank, pizza and postcards, 60,000 votes 01:03:35 — This day in history: York, Vulcan Street, Wyoming, the Hoover Dam, the first televised World Series 01:06:46 — Braves batting practice, Eddie Perez and Eugenio Suarez 01:08:06 — The call to action: IWillSaveAmerica.com; Georgia registration closes October 5 01:09:49 — Last Tuesday's episode, the communism series, and only American citizens should decide American elections   Links mentioned: jennybethshow.com teapartypatriots.org iwillsaveamerica.com knowyourballotga.com freedomforallpac.org mvp.sos.ga.gov

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  Episode #124

  Nothing Is Free: A Hungarian Refugee's Warning to Young Americans | Agnes Gibboney

  Sep 29, 202655 minS3

  Guest: Agnes Gibboney was born in Budapest, Hungary, about ten years after the communist regime took power, and was two years old when her parents fled with one suitcase in January 1957. Her family spent ten months in a refugee camp in Yugoslavia and thirteen years in Brazil before immigrating legally to the United States. Hungary stripped the family of its citizenship, and she was told at the immigration office in Los Angeles in 1977 that she was stateless. She returned to Budapest that year while the country was still communist, and many times since. She is an angel mom whose son Ronald was killed by an illegal immigrant, a 2020 candidate for Congress, and a public speaker on border security and the reality of life under socialism. This episode is part of The Jenny Beth Show's Surviving Communism series.   Key topics:   • Why every Hungarian conversation her parents had was about the same fear: a neighbor reports you, the police take you, no trial, no hearing, a forced labor camp • Budapest in 1977: gray cars, bullet holes in the buildings, and an uncle who answered a question about communism with "shh" • Stateless: how the Hungarian government took the family's citizenship, and what an immigration officer in Los Angeles told her it meant • The first escape attempt: soldiers surround the family at the border and take the suitcase of cigarettes they meant to sell for food • January 1957: a pharmacist friend's concoction puts a two-year-old to sleep, and her father jumps the border ditch into Yugoslavia with her in his arms • The refugee camp, and the three siblings her parents lost • Why they left: a father who was anti-communist and "speaking up too much" • Thirteen years in Brazil, two lapsed applications, and the knock on the door that opened the American embassy in Rio • The Communist Party moves a stranger into her parents' house: "Do you want me to report you?" • Her mother left Hungary without saying goodbye to her own mother, afraid she would be reported; they never saw each other again • Letters, and an international call arranged at the post office • Life before communism: Margaret Island on Saturdays, lunch and a movie on Sundays • The New York Times, 1950: milk products "disappeared completely" from Budapest, meat "as rare as eggs," and food exported to pay for the five-year plan • One liter of milk a day for three children; one pound of meat a week for a family • Baptism was against the law, so her godparents carried her through the back of the church • Bribing doctors, and waiting years for a replacement • Stalin's statue, radio propaganda that said Americans were starving in the streets, and how the regime took from the rich, then the middle class, then the poor • The Democratic Socialists of America pitch of no rent and no medical bills, and her question for every young person who believes it • What a "free phone" from the government really costs • Cuba today, and why she says socialism and communism are the same thing • The utopia that never arrives: "coming soon" • Her mother, who worshiped the United States and waited thirteen years to get here • Her daughter's fear for her safety, and where Jenny Beth Martin says her courage comes from • The Cal State San Bernardino student who learned communism was good from his professor and never checked • Her charge to Americans born here: get an education, do your own research, stand up for this country   Timestamps:   00:19 — Welcome: Agnes Gibboney and the Surviving Communism series 00:41 — Born in Budapest ten years into communism; afraid to speak even to siblings 01:49 — Hungary in 1977: an uncle who answered "shh" 03:42 — Stateless: "You don't belong anywhere" 04:48 — The first escape attempt: soldiers and a suitcase of cigarettes 06:08 — January 1957: a pharmacist's concoction and a jump over the border ditch 07:34 — The refugee camp in Yugoslavia: a baby brother lost 08:27 — Martha and Clara: a sister's grave she rebuilt and paid for herself 10:21 — Why they left: a father who spoke up too much 11:34 — Thirteen years in Brazil, two lapsed applications, a knock on the door 12:27 — The immigration medical check: "what a concept that is" 13:22 — Childhood memories of Brazil; going back to Hungary 14:29 — Budapest under communism: gray cars, bullet holes in the buildings 15:45 — Before they left: a house of their own, a cabinetmaker's good living 17:08 — The Communist Party moves a stranger into their home: "That's free housing" 18:09 — Leaving family behind without saying goodbye; the wooden box her father made 19:43 — Letters, a call at the post office; she never saw her mother again 20:50 — Her mother lived the return trip through her 21:51 — Her father's silence, and a night in Copacabana 23:24 — Life before communism: Margaret Island Saturdays, Sunday lunch and a movie 24:24 — The New York Times, 1950: food shortages reach the front page 26:06 — One liter of milk a day for three children 26:29 — "All milk products have disappeared completely from Budapest" 28:12 — Jenny Beth Martin: a gallon of milk every day and a half, carrying twins 29:23 — Baptism against the law: through the back of the church in Göd 30:30 — One pound of meat a week; coworkers give up their vouchers 31:19 — Bribing the doctor; waiting years for a replacement 32:24 — Jenny Beth Martin: they have to dehumanize everyone to be that brutal 33:12 — Stalin's statue, and radio propaganda that said Americans were starving 34:23 — First the mansions, then the middle class, then the poor 35:42 — "If Americans would only know how evil it is": the Democratic Socialists of America 37:15 — No rent, no medical bills: "How do you think you're going to get it for free?" 38:16 — The free phone, and constant surveillance 39:17 — Get an education, do your own research, visit a communist country 39:45 — Cuba: six days a week of work to eat 40:30 — Socialism and communism: "the same thing"; the utopia that never arrives 41:23 — Her mother worshiped the United States; thirteen years of waiting 42:33 — "My mother would hug me": I'm proud of you 43:11 — Her daughter's fear; an angel mom's public platform 45:17 — Jenny Beth Martin: the silencing effect, and where courage comes from 46:24 — Not being intimidated; thinking for yourself 47:55 — The Cal State San Bernardino student who never checked his professor 49:53 — Why stand up: "the only country in the world" 51:20 — "I'm a legal immigrant. You were born here. You should be doing what I'm doing" 52:23 — God bless President Trump; vote out the same failures 54:05 — Close: thank you, Agnes Gibboney   Links mentioned: jennybethshow.com teapartypatriots.org

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  Episode #123

  Democratic Socialists of America: Reaction from a Survivor of Mao's China | Lily Tang Williams

  Sep 28, 20261h 4mS3

  Guest: Lily Tang Williams is the Republican nominee for Congress in New Hampshire's Second District, running in a November rematch against Congresswoman Maggie Goodlander after winning the 2026 primary with 65 percent of the vote. Born in Sichuan province, she was two years old when Mao's Cultural Revolution began and grew up in workers' housing on government food rationing. She studied law at Fudan University in Shanghai, taught there as a part-time faculty member, and left China for graduate school in the United States in 1988. She is a speaker for the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, a small-business owner, and a mother of three.   Key topics:   • What the Chinese Communist Party promised before it took power, and what land reform and the people's communes delivered instead • The famine that reached Sichuan, and what starving villagers did to survive • Mao's ten classes, five black and five red, and how families were turned against each other • School under Mao: shut down, reopened six days a week, and a six-year-old kept home a year to babysit her infant brother • The lesson at age seven that taught her never to trust anyone • Banned Taiwanese love songs, red revolutionary songs, and a child who saw Mao's face in the clouds • Mao's death at twelve: "who lied to my generation?" • Three years of study, four boiled eggs a morning, and the national college exam • Choosing law at seventeen to make China a rule-of-law country, and what the law school taught in week two • An American exchange student, a pocket Constitution, and the sentence that changed her life • Religion under communism, and the mother who prayed in secret • Two bosses at a Chinese university: one academic, one political • No blue jeans, no dancing, no hair past the shoulders: college rules in 1981 • Lying to the Communist Party boss for permission to leave; "you don't own yourself" • Landing in America with 100 dollars, meeting her husband the first night, and a surgery she hid from her family • Socialist medicine: infected blood, a decade without a diagnosis, and bribing surgeons for a hospital bed • Why she is running for Congress, and the rematch with Maggie Goodlander • Blacklisted by the Chinese Communist Party, eleven years without seeing her family • The Democratic Socialists of America's promises, set against what she lived • How to help get out the vote before Election Day   Timestamps:   00:00 — Cold open: Lily Tang Williams, a little girl in Mao's Cultural Revolution 00:36 — The Surviving Communism series: what is coming in October 01:50 — Welcome: Lily Tang Williams, candidate for Congress in New Hampshire 03:58 — Two years old when the Cultural Revolution began; twelve when Mao died 04:35 — Eight families, one outdoor restroom, one water faucet 05:32 — "We supposed to be the ruling class": the 5 AM ration line 06:42 — What communism promised: everything free, land for the peasants 07:27 — Land reform and the people's communes: "promise not kept" 08:37 — The famine: 40 to 60 million; Sichuan had never starved before 09:46 — What starving villagers traded to survive 10:24 — Mao's ten classes: five black, five red 11:38 — Her grandmother's year of struggle sessions 13:05 — School under Mao: shut down, reopened six days a week 14:34 — Six years old, kept home a year to babysit her infant brother 16:19 — Too confident for the Young Pioneers: the lesson that ended trust 18:02 — Music, radio and "spiritual pollution": the banned Taiwanese songs 19:59 — "I saw his face behind the clouds": a 100 percent brainwashed child 20:28 — Mao dies: "who lied to my generation?" 21:30 — Three years of study, four boiled eggs, and the national exam 24:07 — Choosing law at seventeen to make China a rule-of-law country 26:00 — Two weeks into law school: law as a tool of the ruling class 27:21 — An American exchange student and a pocket Constitution 29:14 — "Your rights come from God, not from your government" 31:10 — Carry a Constitution: Jenny Beth Martin on why it matters here too 31:49 — Religion shut down; her mother's private prayers 33:30 — Faculty at Fudan, two bosses: academic and political 35:02 — Applying to American graduate schools: TOEFL, GRE, a sponsor 35:34 — No jeans, no dancing, no hair past the shoulders 37:10 — Hu Yaobang, disco and coffee shops: a short liberation 38:46 — "Climb the ladder, retire and die": deciding to leave 39:45 — Lying to the party boss for permission; "you don't own yourself" 40:41 — Landing in America with 100 dollars and a 1,200 dollar debt 41:26 — Meeting her husband the first night; the RA job that kept her here 42:37 — A lump, a surgery, and a secret kept from China 43:57 — Health care in China: infected blood and her mother's dementia 46:21 — Bribing surgeons for a hospital bed 46:49 — Jenny Beth Martin: what "free health care for everyone" looks like 47:33 — "How do you sue the government?" Who should decide your care 49:50 — Why she is running: "I fear the country I love becoming the country I left" 52:05 — 47 percent in 2024, 65 percent in the primary, a rematch with Maggie Goodlander 52:39 — Outspent four to one, no PACs: a happy warrior 54:17 — "Made in America, not a bot": the choice in New Hampshire's Second District 54:49 — How to help from outside New Hampshire 56:28 — 40 trillion dollars in debt; "every vote matters" 56:48 — Blacklisted by the Chinese Communist Party, eleven years without her family 57:13 — "The first one who survived Mao's regime to serve in Congress" 57:47 — Jenny Beth Martin: "You are an inspiration" 59:11 — Next week: the Surviving Communism series launches 01:00:22 — The Democratic Socialists of America's promises, and the reality 01:00:51 — Get out the vote: teapartypatriots.org, helpatthepolls.com, iwillsaveamerica.com 01:03:08 — Tomorrow: an angel mom on border security; close   Links mentioned: jennybethshow.com teapartypatriots.org helpatthepolls.com iwillsaveamerica.com

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  Episode #122

  Xi Jinping in America: Give Him Face, But Do Not Give Him an Inch | Sasha Gong

  Sep 25, 202646 minS3

  Guest: Sasha Gong is a former China director at Voice of America and a former China expert at the AFL-CIO. Born in China, she was sent to the countryside at nine, had three years of schooling before college, and spent a year in a Chinese jail as a young dissident before Xi Jinping's father ordered her group released. She went on to earn a PhD from Harvard, writes for American Greatness, and is now writing books and making films.   Key topics:   • Xi Jinping in the United States this week for talks with President Trump: what Americans should watch • By Scott Bessent's account, China did not get the deal it wanted: a truce to January, not to the end of Trump's term • Why not surrendering to China means keeping American AI and rebuilding the industrial base • AI as the new industrial revolution: something you have to live with, you better own • China's world AI organization in Shanghai, 26 countries, and why America must lead its own table • Give Xi face, do not give an inch: why a presidential greeting at the airport costs nothing • Xi has purged every top leader of China's military: insecurity, not strength • Xi's childhood: a father sixteen years in jail, five in shackles; a boy paraded at 13 while his mother watched, then sent back by her • The illusion of power, and why Trump the businessman is giving it to him • Is China helping Iran? Gong says not much, and Beijing would abandon Tehran when it became useless • China's economy: almost 19 percent youth unemployment, 300 million who need a job, imports to the U.S. down 25 to 30 percent • What the CIA learned from the Soviet archives, and whether Xi Jinping knows • How a reporter who did not like Trump came to back his industrial policy   Timestamps:   00:00 — Welcome and introduction: Sasha Gong on Xi Jinping's visit 01:16 — Who Sasha Gong is: political prisoner, Harvard PhD, AFL-CIO, Voice of America 04:06 — Xi is in America this week: what to pay attention to 04:32 — Bessent: China did not get the deal it wanted; a truce to January 05:51 — Why not to surrender to China: the industrial base and AI 07:17 — Why AI infrastructure has to be American: the new industrial revolution 08:25 — "Something you have to live with, you better own it" 08:56 — China's world AI organization in Shanghai, 26 countries 09:23 — American values in the technology standards 11:30 — Quantum computing and the 1825 railway report 13:30 — What should happen from the visit: give face, not an inch 14:15 — Xi has purged the top of the military: a sign of insecurity 15:28 — Brezhnev and the last Ming emperor: a dictator with no challenger 16:51 — Meeting Xi at the airport: why it costs nothing 17:32 — Xi's history: an insecure man; his father's sixteen years in jail 20:36 — Detained at 13 for a Russian love song 21:40 — His mother sent him back 22:41 — Paraded again, this time welcomed 24:25 — "The elementary school graduate" 25:00 — Pretending to be humble 26:07 — The deep background; when family turns against you 27:33 — Stalin, Mao's purges: "you only have survivors" 29:38 — What Xi wants from America: the illusion of power 31:12 — What Trump wants: a ceasefire in the economic fight 32:15 — Red carpet, not an inch 33:05 — Is China helping Iran? 34:28 — What her contacts in China say; Jimmy Lai 35:19 — China's economy in bad shape: 19 percent youth unemployment 37:48 — Imports from China down 25 to 30 percent; the factories left 39:24 — Ripe to take out the leader? Two million robots 40:19 — The Soviet lesson: does Xi know? 42:08 — What Americans should take from the visit 42:20 — How Trump won over a skeptic 44:36 — "I want something from China"; close   Links mentioned: jennybethshow.com teapartypatriots.org

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