The MeidasTouch Podcast - Xi Makes His Move as China and BRICS Reshape the Global Order

Episode Date: September 13, 2026

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Chinese President Xi Jinping making his move as the global order rapidly shifts around Donald Trump. Meiselas connects Xi's previous warnings about the "Thucydides Trap" to China's moves through BRICS, the emergence of an increasingly multipolar global architecture, and escalating tensions over Xi's expected meeting with Trump in Washington. Meiselas breaks down how China's long-term planning is colliding with Trump's approach as the United States faces growing isolation on the world stage. With a limited-time offer, get Huel today with an exclusive offer of 15% off online with the code MEIDAS at https://www.huel.com/meidas. New customers only. Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast Cult Conversations: The Influence Continuum with Dr. Steve Hassan: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show The Ken Harbaugh Show: https://meidasnews.com/tag/the-ken-harbaugh-show Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

China has made its move. President Xi Jinping of China is calling checkmate against Donald Trump and Donald Trump too dense and too much of a malignant narcissist to perhaps even realize what a cornered rat he is and the destruction and devastation cause to the United States. I recall the quote from Napoleon Bonaparte, never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. go back much earlier in history to the day of Confucius.

Remember the Confucius quote, a man who has made a mistake and does not correct it is making another mistake. But when it comes to Donald Trump, it is failure by design. Donald Trump doesn't care about the national interest of the United States. Donald Trump is a walking, talking grift who has pillaged for himself and has destroyed. the national interest of the United States, while China has now asserted itself as the global hegemon in a rapidly changing multilateral global world order with the U.S. security architecture being destroyed. And this happened fast. It's the biggest story that should be covered everywhere

right now, and we are focused on it here at the Midas Touch Network because it ain't being covered in a lot of places, especially in the United States. So at the BRICS summit, that hegemonic status of China was really asserted, but in the context of a multilateral, multipolar world order that China is creating, that China had planned for with the BRICS for some time, but now with Donald Trump's failure by design, the perfect opening for China. So in New Delhi, at the BRICS summit, you had China, you had Xi, you had Prime Minister Modi of India, you had Putin, you had President Poseskina of Iran, and you had the numerous other entities that form the Bricks block. Xi Jinping stressed the following at the New Delhi summit.

He said that Bricks and all nations across the world must stand firmly on the right side of history and strive to be a pioneer of our times. And he said this is especially the case when it comes to the Middle East and the rapidly changing global order that we all see. As it relates to the Middle East, Xi Jinping was talking about resisting

and pushing back against unilateral sanctions and secondary sanctions and wars by the Trump regime and the Netanyahu regime against Iran and against Iran and against us. other countries in the area. Xi Jinping said that bricks should pioneer advancing innovation-driven deployment. Bricks should be a pioneer in upholding peace and stability. Bricks should be a pioneer in facilitating mutual learning between civilizations.

Bricks should be a pioneer in reforming and improving global governance. Now, Xi Jinping saying the things that once upon, a time. We used to hear from secretaries of state in the United States. But where the hell is Marco Rubio other than threatening to invade Cuba or bragging about stealing Venezuelan oil and 65 billion barrels that are never really going to come to fruition? But it's nice for Donald Trump to further defraud the American people. But it ain't working while gas prices and diesel prices continue to surge. But you see here on the home front, as Donald Trump's bravado and bluster has been exposed as empty, I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house down, and nobody

actually takes Donald Trump's word seriously anymore, meaningless empty fraud. China, Xi Jinping just issued a threat to Donald Trump. Hey Donald, we know how desperate you are for a visit by Xi Jinping. come September 24th at the White House. That's what you've been telling everybody. Xi Jinping's presence makes you feel powerful to be in the presence of someone like she. That's what Donald Trump has said before. It's frankly an embarrassing thing that Donald Trump is such a Xi Jinping bootlicker, but that's what he is.

So Xi Jinping just said, here's the reality. Here's the deal. If you do any arms transfers to Taiwan and the U.S. U.S. was expected to do a $14 billion arms transfer. Xi Jinping said, I will immediately cancel my visit to the United States. I want guarantee, Xi Jinping said, that you will not help Taiwan in any way, shape, or form with any military assistance, or I will cancel this trip to the United States. So, Xi Jinping making that threat right there while he was at Bricks.

Also, during a speech at the BRIC summit, Xi Jinping said, this war, this war by the United States and Israel, this war has caused serious losses to people across the region and does not serve a common interest of the international community. He went on to say, China is willing to mediate, and China will step in to try to resolve the Trump, regime chaos and turmoil that's been caused to the global markets. So now China is stepping in in a place where we would once expect the United States to step in, trying to unite the world in a coalition that ultimately is going to change forever the security architecture in the Middle East. Now, all of these events that are happening across the world are not random. They may feel like, how do I keep track of all of these things? But you see, they are all very related. As the United States security umbrella falls in the Middle East, in Asia, in Europe, as Donald

Trump has lost all credibility not just for himself, but sadly for the United States, a new security architecture globally is forming. And we see that being built around China. So on Monday, what's happening in Oman in Muscat, there will be a meeting recognizing Iran's control over the straight of Hormuz, Iran's doing a deal with Oman, Iran's not going to open up the Strait of Hormuz until the United States complies with its obligations under the MOU, but you will have these Arab nations there watching Iran and Oman sign this document and Iran saying, Commerce opens as a lot. As soon as the United States abides by the MOU, the U.S. gets out of the Middle East, the Netanyahu regime in Israel gets out of Lebanon, we can recognize a Palestinian state, the genocide in Gaza ends, and let's have a new security architecture in the Middle East. This also presents folks existential risk to monarchies in the region. I mean the Saudi monarchy, MBS.

MBS is a very Trumpy type of guy and was a perfect mark for Trump. You know, he was the son of the king, has all of this money, very arrogant, never thought that the Saudi monarchy could possibly lose in a proxy war to the Houthis in Yemen. But that's precisely what happened. The Houthis Ansarala conquered all or controlled all of Western Yemen. They're moving east to Aden right now. The Saudi troops are on the run. But the very foundation of the Saudi monarchies. right now has been shattered as their power tied to the Trump regime has been demonstrated to be

a bit of a paper tiger and a bit of the kind of Trump braggadocia without the concomitant power associated with it and that's being seen now in the region but China's stepping in and saying we're going to provide a new security architecture not in a heavy-handed way but we're going to be there, but our main focus right now is going to be unification with Taiwan. We're focused on Asia, but we'll also be here to facilitate a newly defined order that pushes the U.S. out. That was the main message coming out of BRICS. I mean, I could read for you and I won't all 18,000 words of the BRICS joint declaration,

but if I were to summarize it for you, it was a condemnation of Trump and Netanyahu's chaos in the Middle East and a call for resilience and a call for a new structure that stops that from happening in the future, not just puts an end to it in the short term, but stops it long term. So now with the world on the brink, and you know, I obviously don't like Mount Gibson because, but I liked the movie Braveheart. Remember in the movie Braveheart, the scene, and where it was like, wait for it, hold, hold, hold now. And then they go back and watch it. You may have no clue what I'm talking about.

But the point I'm making is China was waiting for this exact moment where the global economy is about to crash, for it to basically step in, solve the issues. and like the, I'll give you just a number of other movie references, usual suspects, Kaiser Sose at the end kind of walks out, oh, you were Kaiser Sose, or at the end of the Sixth Sense, you know, you find out who Bruce Willis was in the movie and why the kid was able to see him. Here's the most ridiculous part of my day. I can spend all morning working,

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But China had previously not been importing lots of crude. China prepared in 2025, bought crude at very low prices, kept it in these tin pot refineries, they had a whole network of them and their strategic reserves, like 1.5 billion, 2 billion gallons or so, or barrels of oil, 2 billion barrels. the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve is like less than half of that. I mean, you know, but China was using its domestic supply and not importing. And because it wasn't importing all of this crude, it allowed the supply not to dwindle. And if it just continued to import at the rates it did in 2025, what would you see happening right away? You would have less supply so the price of crude would go up

very dramatically, but China was not importing. They're importing again now. So with all of these developments, right, the East-West oil terminal destroyed or severely damaged than shut down by Saudi Arabia. The Houthis, Iran, part of Iran's axis of resistance, they control the Bob El-Mandab Strait and the Red Sea. Iran controls the Strait of Ramos, two critical choke points. The Houthis also saying we could go to Suez Canal. Why do you think Xi Jinping was in Egypt recently as well? Why do you think that he was meeting with El Sissy, where he also talked about a new global architecture without the United States and a new kind of China-centric way of looking at the Middle East? But really, he described it more as a Middle East countries asserting their own sovereignty and not being dependent on the unilateral imposition of the petrodollar and, U.S. architecture, right? Why do you think he was also in Egypt? I mean, these are critical trade

choke points right here, right? And so you have all of that taking place. Now, China starts importing again, right? And so what's happening right now? The price goes up, up, up. China holds the bricks meeting right here. Xi Jinping also cleverly says, okay, September's the perfect date for us to do this. because all of these developments are happening. She's now saying, I'm going to withhold showing up unless certain things happen. I will also be willing to mediate what's happening in the Strait of Hormuz. And I will mediate overall the chaos that's been caused by the Trump and Netanyahu regime. China's going to step in.

And that, folks, is how you have a completely new global architecture. And that's what just went down. I mean, look at Xi Jinping and Modi and Putin. They're looking at each other with this sense of we just completely, this is how you take down the hegemon. This is, and by the way, rewind the script of this movie. I've been giving you movie references like Braveheart and usual suspects and Sixth Sense and others. Xi Jinping put it in the script.

He talked about the Thucydides trap. He told it to Donald Trump. face, don't. He told him what we were doing. You know, he basically, you know, imagine it's football. I'm just going to give a lot of examples. We're in football season. Imagine the QB who's like, I'm going to go that way. I'm going to, don't you dare even try to guard my guy. I'm going to throw it to the wide receiver. He's cutting right. And then he cut right. Right. That's what Xi Jinping just did. And it was completely outmaneuvering Donald Trump. And Trump, this is why you need intelligence smart people to counteract these moves that were being made. But this was Xi Jinping, Iran, Russia,

escalating in Ukraine. This was Egypt. I mean, this was, there was a lot of people who were involved in this, a lot of nations that were involved in this. But the essence of it is a new global architecture. And this brick summit is all about that. It's essentially an apotheosis. To that, it's a celebration of that. Look at Iran's foreign minister, Iraqi, with China's foreign minister Wang Yi. I mean, they're talking about new banking systems, moving away from the petro dollar, ending the genocide in Gaza. They're talking about fair supply chains for critical minerals. They're flexing China's control over rare earths right now, okay?

That's what's going down right now. And then while all of this is happening, I mean, what's, what's Trump been saying? What, what's Trump been saying? And by the way, India is critical to this, too. They're hosting the Brick Summit. But as Xi Jinping said, China and India are the two countries with the largest populations in the world and are important members of the global South and play an important role. The two sides will work together to promote high quality cooperation and promote a peaceful

and stable world and provide more positive energy. Okay, think about this. You have that taking place. I'll tell you who gets it, who actually looked a little bit disheveled. Mark Rote, the NATO Secretary General, usually he kind of, I mean, I think he's a little bit of a comical, deranged kind of guy with his Trump bootlicking. I understand why he feels he has to do it. But you see him sweating right now. I've never seen him look like this.

NATO Rutei said, if China were to move against Taiwan, what could we do? Here, watch this. There's also the realization, increasingly, both in Europe and the United States, that if China would move against Taiwan or anything in the first island chain, that Xi Jinping will first call his junior partner and all of this, which is one Vladimir of Vladimir Putin in Moscow, to keep his busy here. And that means that if that would happen, you would have a situation where you would have a serious problem in both theaters.

In other words, the inner Pacific and Europe are more or less, more interconnected. That's... Then Donald Trump, before he went on this Ireland trip, gave this interview with Laura Ingram, and she was asking, she, not Xi Jinping. Laura Ingraham was asking him about China spying on the U.S. and China providing Iran with military intelligence. And here's what Donald Trump said. You can hear for yourself. Let's play it. They're ruining their cities. I know nothing about it.

I know nothing about B-Y-D. I'm the only one that stopped them from coming, and they've destroyed. You know, they're destroying Germany. They're ruining Mercedes. They're ruining BMW. And if you go to Europe, you look at what's going on. It's like an avalanche of Chinese cars.

And I'm not knocking Chinese. I'm not knocking Chinese cars. President Xi's coming over to have a nice state dinner in two weeks. With a lot of CEOs, what does he want? Well, we get along. You know, he and I get along very well. People say, oh, he spies on us. Well, we spy on him, too.

You know, we're very good at all at it also. So we get along. We have a very good relationship. He's coming over in two weeks. It's going to be interesting. You know, the fact that we get along is a good thing. We do very well with China now. We used to do very badly with China, but we do well with China.

You know, when Donald Trump's been giving speeches lately, this is what he says. I want to thank China. I ask China not to get involved in Iran. They listen to me. And it's like, dude, what are you talking about? What world? Like, why do we have the dumbest guy in office here in the United States? and China knows, now is the time, make the move.

It's why they've done all of these things that I've explained to you they've done in the past very short period of time. Here, play this clip. Conference that's in China. I said, I do that. And I want to thank China because, to be honest,

I asked President Xi not to get involved with Iran and they get 50% of their oil from the strait, but I asked them not to get involved And then he said he wouldn't and he didn't. I mean, it's very nice, actually. And there you have it, everybody. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe.

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