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Carl Zha is a Sichuan-born political commentator, journalist, and podcast host renowned for his insights into China’s history, culture, and politics.

Born in China shortly after Mao Zedong’s death in 1976, he experienced the country’s rapid transformation from poverty to prosperity during his early years.

Zha grew up between China and the United States, later spending time in Southern California before settling in Bali, Indonesia, where he currently resides.

He hosts the popular Silk and Steel Podcast, which challenges Western narratives on China and explores topics from ancient dynasties to modern geopolitics, often drawing on his family’s experiences through events like the Japanese Occupation and the Cultural Revolution.

With a strong online presence, including a YouTube channel and over 100,000 followers on X (formerly Twitter), Zha provides balanced, firsthand perspectives on U.S.-China relations, Xinjiang, and global affairs.

He’s also a frequent guest on international podcasts and runs salsa dancing events in Bali.

He joins us to discuss the Iran war from the Chinese perspective.

Follow Carl: https://x.com/CarlZha

Carls Youtube channel: / @carlzha

Carls podcast: / silknsteel

Follow us on X: https://x.com/propandco

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The video features an interview with Carl Zha, a Chinese American political commentator, discussing the recent conflict between Iran and Israel from a Chinese perspective, and the broader geopolitical implications.

Key Points:

• Netanyahu’s Motivations: The discussion touches on the idea that Netanyahu’s actions are partly motivated by a desire to stay out of jail on corruption charges, but also acknowledges Israel’s long-term strategic interests in the region.
• Iran’s Capabilities: Iran demonstrated its ability to retaliate against Israel with missiles, showcasing a strong offensive capability (“strong spear”). However, its air defenses need improvement (“weaker shield”) to protect missile launchers from Israeli air strikes.
• China’s Role: Iran may seek to purchase air defense systems from China, which has the manufacturing capacity to quickly supply them. China’s relationship with Iran is not a military alliance like NATO, but a relationship between sovereign nations with shared geopolitical interests.
• US Involvement: The US has been supporting Israel, including providing intelligence and refueling capabilities. However, a full-scale US ground invasion of Iran is unlikely due to domestic opposition.
• Oil and Sanctions: China is a major purchaser of Iranian oil, providing a crucial economic lifeline. The US sanctions regime aims to cause economic collapse in Iran, but China’s continued oil purchases help to mitigate this. The Strait of Hormuz is a critical chokepoint for oil exports, and its closure would have global consequences.
• Multipolarity: The discussion emphasizes the concept of multipolarity, where countries maintain their independence and sovereignty, rather than being subservient to a single overlord.
• Rare Earth Elements: China’s control over rare earth element exports gives it significant economic leverage. The US relies on China for processing rare earth elements, creating a vulnerability in its supply chain.

Highlights:

• Carl Zha’s analysis of the Iran-Israel conflict, emphasizing Iran’s strengths and weaknesses.
• The discussion of China’s role in supporting Iran economically and potentially militarily.
• The explanation of the complex network of oil tankers and refineries used to circumvent US sanctions on Iran.
• The insights into China’s foreign policy and its approach to multipolarity.
• The discussion of China’s dominance in rare earth element production and its implications for the US military-industrial complex.

About Channel:

Everything is propaganda. Cut through it here.

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“Trust Nothing. Everything is Propaganda.”

It is the 21st century. Incredible advances have brought humanity farther in 100 years than the previous 10,000 together. Technology, medicine, interconnectivity, human rights, democracy, happiness for all; it’s mankind’s greatest golden age. And the Global West is at the center of it all. The American Dream.

That’s what they’d have you believe.

All those stories warning us of a Dystopian Future of security states monitoring your every move? Of digital eyes and ears in every wall; of industrial slavery and artificial poverty; of killer robots and AI with no emotion.

They were wrong. Because it is not the future we should be worried about.

It is the Dystopian Now.

And it all is made possible by the all-encompassing shadow of those who manufacture media narratives to twist the truth into propaganda. They do this to wage war and kill under manufactured pretenses, leaving millions dead in their wake. To sanitize occupation and exploitation for the gain of a few at the cost of the many. To enable financial crises to strip the people of their future and plunder the wealth of entire countries and their people.

This cabal of greed, these “Elite”, wield the media to craft and propel propaganda meant to subjugate our will and manufacture the consent for our own ruin. They promise a better and even more advanced world. But the technology they develop, the wars they wage, and the information they collect serves them - not us.

After carrying on like this for decades, they have gone rogue with unchecked power. They have conquered and exploited everything. All that remains free from their total control: our minds. But even this we are at risk of losing. And while they inch ever closer to achieving their ultimate goal, they develop artificial minds, artificial intelligence, to make their grip on control all the more stronger.

But we have had enough. Our minds are the citadel that will not fall. The line that will not be breached. The thing we must fight the hardest for. And the weapon we wield in its defense: the truth.

For truth allows us to break free of the attempted control of our minds, of our perception.

It is our duty to seek and know the truth. To bear witness to it, and to testify against the evil and distortions that attempt to subvert it. The truth matters more than anything, even if we have little to no control over the affairs of the world. For the first step to breaking free of this false reality shaped by deceit is to uphold truth.

And so, to combat the propaganda of the evil Elite, we must propagate our own propaganda founded on truth.

In this hi-tech jungle of lies, we propagandists and the company we keep are the outgunned and outnumbered underdogs against the AI Bot and sycophant armies of the Elite. But we bring the truth to bear, and every day more people break free.

We use the same media and technology used against us to fight for the very future these tools were promised to manifest. We resist their narratives, and in doing so we reclaim our birthright to truth.

Propaganda & Co is not a media brand. It’s a declaration of resistance against the forces of deception.

Propagandists for truth and the company they keep will shatter this fabricated reality, where lies masquerade as truth and manufactured narratives reign supreme. It is not a matter of if; only when.

Until then,

Trust Nothing. Everything is Propaganda.

Expose lies & seek truth.

Be relentless.

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