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next, and we'll be back at the total the out. mm ah, hello, i'm manila chad. you are tuned into modus operandi old enemies, new friends. that's the theme of today's show after china emerges as the new piece broker in the east announcing a restoration of ties between rivals, saudi arabia and iran. so where does that leave the us on the world stage? and what does that mean for the rest of the world? more commonly referred to as the global south. we'll discuss it next. all right, let's get into the ammo. ah, it was a $12.00 punch, 2 u. s. foreign policy after beijing drops

a bombshell. saudi arabia and iran are normalizing relations after nearly a decade of fractured ties. the 2 muslim states have been at odds officially since 2016 when both governments shuddered their respective embassies after iranian protestors stormed the saudi embassy. so we've seen this dispute play out in various theaters like and occupied palestinian territories in, in syria and smatterings and clashes over the years. but was this beef really against one another? or because of us meddling in the region. enter the dragon, like the film that put bruce lee on the pop culture map. china seemed to emerge out of nowhere with this broker day taught, putting them at the forefront of peace, just weeks after putting forth a peace plan for russia and ukraine. so with uncle sam asleep at the wheel,

it appears the dragon has awoken. joining us to discuss is angelo juliano. he is a financial and political analyst writer and has been living and working in china for nearly 30 years. thanks for being with us, angelo. so in what seemed to be something that arose out of the blue beijing announced it had brokered bilateral restoration of ties between iran and saudi arabia. back in march, it was confirmed that each respective country would re open embassies and normalize relations as a p. firstly, on this matter, was it out of the blue. i mean, this news seemed to catch washington off guard, or even by surprise, how long do you think paging had been working on this process? it is not surprising. we saw what happened in the last few days, actually saudi arabia announced that he would, he was applying to a c,

u, a. so basically this already iran, which is part of the s e o, in order to, to enter into the se, or sorry, the had to somehow make peace with the saudi arabia. so i think this is a, you know, dos negotiation or they take a long time to, to be, to happen. and i think this, sir, this is a, the result of an effort of decades of work that the china has done over the region . how china dos when it comes to establishing relationship. it is about building infrastructure, it's about training. it's not about imposing an order or into fir, into doing interference in those countries. so i think this piece agreement between saudi arabia any ran is basically a, the, the result of

a long effort of china. that nice to have those 2 countries to be in good terms because they are part of the better on initiative. and there are lots of project related to infrastructure in the region. so they need, they need to have those, those 2 countries to get together and work together because ultimately what china wants to do in the region is to bill stability. so bait is went to be a win win for everybody. you been infrastructure, country stock trading in and when you do business business, promote peace and well being rather than than what we saw in the middle east over the next last decades of confrontation and investor. if you look at what the u. s. did in the region is a divide and conquer, basically dividing countries between issues, religion, sunni's against she, us, china is about, is, is much, much more rational in china as an approach over this,

it should short on st. e. meaning, look for what united us and set aside the differences in, that's the approach that china has used when he come to saudi arabia in iran. it's focused on what you notice, how can we work together? and of course we have problems, but we'll solve those problems slowly as we start building a relationship. anyway, why, why was washington surprise, were they not paying attention? and u. s. secretary of state anthony blink. and try to downplay china's role in all of their saying that beijing only facilitated the meeting and didn't really have a real part in brokering the relations. i think it is probably one of the reasons that are washington is a bit outside of the realities and there's a lot of dispersion when it comes to foreign policies. i think it's a saw you mediation. if you think about the middle east,

the middle east has always been for the us. you know, there playground, you know, it was a, you know, there is, there were the applied the mon window, shall they fall from the west. they want the thought that middle east was there, tough and it is a kind of humiliation here you have finally, adults in the room. you know, there was, there were kids like the u. s. like acted like kids, you know, creating chaos in the middle east. now you have the adult coming in a china and say what, what, how can we work together in all those was endless was, is not working. is actually you being used to being used. and that is divided in conquest strategy. and it's a kind of human nation for the us because, and this is, this is a reason they want to don't really, what china did. and this is actually, this is an advanced indicator of what chinese actually doing. you see a lot of the cartridge belonging to the caller to the global salt that are actually

starting to talk to each other, working together and aligning behind this project of the bricks, allying. and so behind this huge project unique project of, of infrastructure which is the best and would initiative, i think we should, that we should really focus when he comes to job critics. in general, it is about not looking at worse, but looking at actions chinese much too into words. it's not into perception. it's about building a tangible results. because you can say whatever you want, you know, but chinese of a, don't you urge, you know, i want tangible stuff. you know, are we going to do trade or not? are we going to build infrastructure? are we going to be the new currency? that's what china is doing. it's not about perception. do you think this is merely . 3 detail, i mean, is that a 1st step or do you think the beijing deal has any real staying power?

i think this is for the long term. i definitely, i think, especially because saudi arabia is actually applied is actually signed a m, o u, a memorandum of understanding to enter into the su. so you will have countries like that, you know, saudi arabia and iran in the same organization. and i think it's very interesting what the china has achieved to see. so this is not in reality, the not the 1st time the china united to countries. because, you know, you know, china is as done as for help or small some heart. you have a pakistan in india under the same organization of su, so they did it already. so you start slowing slow bit by bit. they manage to have at least you make pakistan and india with shock, long time enemies to sit under the same roof. you know, on the same table and those are achievements already that china has done in the,

in the past. iran is a sheer muslim country. the saudis are considered sunni, or hobby muslim. we've seen sectarian fighting between the 2 play out in theaters like yemen. respective embassies had been closed since 2016 if this bilateral relationship sticks. what does this mean for the broader middle east or how about israel given that b. b, netanyahu government isn't a very fragile state right now when he comes to use. well, i think we need to be, the question is, well, is there is, well, and i like of the us, or is it a hostage? i think we need to be really careful just not to see sort too close to the us, i think is where it is actually having a more pragmatic approach. and we've actually wrap or small is well with other rep

countries in the middle east because the sheet that the president of the us, you know, the u. s. might not be there in the long term. we've seen the u. s. escaping. i've gotten this done. they see the u. s. not being stable ally, so they need to, to hedge their bets and somehow i think there's a, there's a whole slowly we might have actually some, some kind of piece in it. maybe with this, how push 1 may be a long term solution of the listing in the issue coming up next bricks has been talking about expansion for many months now. so saudi arabia, normalizing relations with iran. will this basically secure the addition of the dual into the new economic block? we'll discuss it when we return with angelo giuliano, the type the m o will be right back. i

ah. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be an arms race is on, often has very dramatic development. only personally and going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very critical time time to sit down and talk ah, welcome back to the m o. i'm manila chan, bricks b, s, c o c s, t o, all these acronyms of powerful allied nations anchored by china and russia. now that beijing has announced revived bilateral ties between iran and saudi arabia. are these blocks about to grow back with us to continue the conversation is angela

juliano. he's a finance and political analyst with expertise in china. so angel china announcing this deal came on the heels of beijing delivering something of a piece plan for ukraine and russia. these were back to back close to u. s. foreign policies unilateral had gemini on top of all of that. this happens as she's in pain accepts his 3rd go as president. do all these things, add up to be what position china as the 21st century leader has the global pecking order begun to shift? absolutely, de. she's assigned that we finally have what i call i called adult in the room. i don't why, why do i told them about chinese not emotional the way that the chinese leaders, a poor geopolitics. they are not lucky in terms of working for the next election cycles. the are working for the next generations. a china is

a long term view. it's not about when the china does alliance, which actually china doesn't like, aligns the, you know, they like partnerships. but those are long term partnerships. it is not like the u . s. as done all along tweet history. i give you an example of what the u. s. the to jerky nor the us was behind the, the, the call in turkey in 2016. this is not the way that you should treat you allies. the us is behind the sabotage of no stream, which is that which is going to damage germans. economy and ultimately which, which will lead to the deemed us radiation of germany. what this is not how you treat you allies. so you, this is holly treat allies in is somehow it's of the, of the trends. you know, it's about training. it's not about co ration. a trend is

a very different approach. it's about how we can work together, you know, and find stability, harmony. and it is very interesting when you look at just country how chinese they operate. when you live in china, like like i've done the last, almost 3 decades, i see cost a p, a society which is working towards harmony and stability. when i look at the approach, especially the u. s. and so in europe to it because of democracy, i mean, so called democracy, which, i mean, it is only by what it's, it's not really tv not, it's a, it's a system of divided in control. gives you use of the free choice to the people. and it is extremely emotional, it is marketing they. they have done the same as they do with product. they have done to politicians. as a politician, i'm going to tell you what you want to hear. once i'm elected,

i will do whatever i want. i will bait you whoever fun to be, not to who likes me. so you see country extremely different approach. one which is very rational. china has a long history. it's solely in terms of values, you know, human being values, family and so on. and then you have the other side, the collective west, and especially the us way divided in controlling people over issues which are not important identity issues, sexuality, you know, left and right and so on. and if the vide society, any chris chaos, but by doing this kills, that's how you control society. and you give you a choice, an illusion of choice to people that somehow they had a free choice don't because you put them in front of them people, they weren't pre selected. but then what that does not going to work for them, but they are going to work for the global is to lease so bricks, brazil, russia,

india, china, south africa. this economic block is already quite formidable against the g 7. prior to this news, it was said that iran and saudi both were interested in joining to form bricks plus, now that they taught has been achieved, how likely is it that the pair will join? and what will this do in terms of a real economic power? i think long term, it's a highly likely we see a lot of interest or if we, every months you have new countries are just showing the interest in joining bricks . i think when you look at breaks, the long term game here is about the d dollarization of the was economy. because in this i, she will lead to the, the, for the collapse of the us. the idea he is not about having, you know, pushing for the class of the u. s. economy. this is not what they want but is

somehow just are having a fair world. just because because somehow this is neil collagen is on the disguise of a currency. and manipulation of a was economy because the us dollar the will was created was to impose upon the word a currency in, in somehow you have a country like the u. s, which is a trade deficits. and which is boring money. it's showing that n is imposing on countries to buy it's debt. so it's a ponzi scheme that is not meant to be paid. and slowly, countries are understanding why, why saudi arabia and iran would have to use us dollar sell. and somehow i'm going to end up with the us dollar, which is not more than the paper itself. you know, if the promise of exchange, again, insisting in it's not a debt which is meant to be repaid. it's

a ponzi scheme. once you stop financing us trade deficit, then the pulse is king falls apart in this is why these days you have many countries including u. s. allies that are actually selling the u. s. bones because it's a ponzi scheme, no breaks the book is, is long term. purpose is to create a currency which will be back by tangible. you know, commodities go and power. those countries, no keta, hardly managed. we bow under the cold warning these us easily to russians. russian has not is not binding people to visit russia. it's the collective west all along this many examples that use you can see that the collective west is especially the u. s. is isolating itself by using too many sanctions on to many countries in then you end up with no countries. you can credit them anymore because countries don't,

don't want to have long term commitments with you could, you can stable you my friend now. but if you could do, or we or something, i'm going to sanction you, that's not friends. you know? if, if, if friends are like this, why ever enemies angela? your final thoughts on all of this, on china, the saudis, iran and the u. s. i think it's especially interesting to hear the perspective of a european born person having lived in china for nearly 30 years. i mean, what is the end game here? how do you see this all playing out? i think a, clearly this is a shift between going from a uni pull a would the usaa gemini and all sorts control over europe over japan, australia, korea, which is a very small portion of the, was population probably around 15 percent. you have this unit pull a word and it is a shift towards multi paula, what is going to be actually,

when you look at paul geopolitics, it's a going from a dictatorship of the us tours democracy of the rest of the world. so this is going to empower those countries to make their own choices just to make sure that they can regain their sovereignty. you know, once you know, you're not actually tied to the us dollar, then you, you can have you, your currency, you, you begin your car, your sovereignty, associates about how we can do this transition. the theory ovo, that we call the to sit. it is trap where you had the shifts in was history. you had the 16 times, i think where you had the shift where you had the, you know, declining power and you know, the raising power. and out of 16 times, i think a 13 times it ended up in a war. so the big question now is to, to see it, how is the collective, what's going to be rational enough to make this transition peacefully. but here is

a huge difference, is that this is the 1st time we have this transition where you have countries in fall of you, you have nuclear power countries. so now if you are going to war, you know, this is mutual a nation. so it's about, are they going to be rational enough? ultimately, if they really cherry so much democracy, why don't they accept that? you know, they are not alone. and again, may be the collective which is not exceptional. like we see hollywood movies, maybe it's time to be more rational to sit down like a dos. whoever does all over under the table. and can we build these sir, this world where we have a mutual project of harmony of peace in nuts. oh, my gain against you loss a lose lose in or he, it's about billing

a one more them aquatic. and working for mutual prosperity because ultimately averaged. sure. either in rush hour china, the u. s. i'm talking about average joe, not the lease is looking to improving its quality of life. how can i bring indication to my kids? how can i have healthcare longevity, tangible things in this is what we can achieve. you know, ultimately it's about really having, having peace in the work and it, but starting from home, you know, because ultimately, when you look at those geopolitical games or the 1st victims, americans living the u. s. themself. maybe they, they need to regain no power. you know, it's because democracy means demo cutoff power to the people. maybe maybe they, they want so much to explore. democracy won't use deep back power to your own

people. so you're probably at home and then maybe maybe you can work with other countries after. so we need to start from ohio and then expand in in how can we work together rather than 0 sum game that the collect you wish was one was us to go to angela juliano. thank you so much for weighing in on all of this for us . all right, so as you can see under the bite in administration, there pivot to the pacific is not without cause the sharp comments coming from military brass in the us talking about war with china and 2025 is cause for real concern as the u. s. desperately seeks to hang on to had gemini, by trying to tame the dragon that is going to do it for this episode of modus operandi. the show that dig deep into foreign policy and current affairs. i'm your

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