be, of course, ah, happening in the background, often escalating, ah rivalry between the u. s. and china in this region. when the philippines says it's, it wants to be a friend to or it should mean that the philippines is adopting an independent foreign policy. that is definitely not the case. if you align your, your foreign policy with american imperialists interests while talking all the alliance is on a world scale. in today's modus operandi episode, manila chant talks of saudi arabia and china is growing relations on what that means for america. looking on those for that one off season. mm hm. ah, for generations, people have been coming here to case of odds to get healthy,

taking advantage of the mineral waters and the pressure today head of the innovation center of the russian, the olympic committee, world renowned trainer, i would render crucial. 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 to u. s. foreign policy after beijing dropped

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 occupy, had palestinian territories yet 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 roker de 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 giuliano. 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 bathing had been working on this process? it is not surprising. we saw what happened in the last few days. ashley,

saudi arabia announced that he would. he was applying to a su, yes. so basically it is already iraq, which is part of the su, in order to, to enter, introduce your saudi arabia, had to somehow make peace with the saudi arabia. so i think the, she saw, you know, dos negotiation. they take a long time to, to be to happen. and i, in 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 for, into doing interference in those countries. so i think this piece agreement between saudi arabia in iran is basically the, the result of

a long efforts of china. that nice to have those 2 countries should be in good terms because they are part of the best in 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, and work together because ultimately what china wants to do in the region is to build stability. so be it is going to be a win win for everybody. you build infrastructure p a country start 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 us did in the region is a divide and conquer. basically dividing countries between issues, religion, sunni's against g us china is about is it's much, much more rational. it,

china is an approach over they see so short on st. e. meaning, look for what you like us and set aside the differences in that's the approach that china has used when you come to saudi arabia in iran, it's focused on what you like us, how can we work together? and of course we have products, but we'll solve those problems slowly as we start building a relationship. anyway, why, why was washington surprised when they not paying attention? and u. s. secretary of state anthony blank and tried 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 reason is that 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, they, they were the applied the mom when duck shall they fall from the west. they want the thought that middle east was their thirst 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 under this divided in conquest strategy. and it's a kind of humiliation 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 assault that actually

starting to talk to each other, working together in aligning behind this project of a bricks allying. and so behind this huge project unique project of, of infrastructure which is the best and world initiative. i think we should, that we should really focus when he comes to geopolitics in general. it is about not looking at worse, but look, if actions chinese much to into was, 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, us, you know, i want tangible stuff. you know, are we going to do trade or not? are we going to build infrastructure? you know, 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 daytime? 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, and 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, so you're a jar and iran in the same organization. and i think it's very interesting what the china has achieved. this is a, this is not in reality, the not the 1st time the china united to countries. because, you know, you, 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 slowly, slowly bit by bit. they managed to have, at least you make pakistan and india, which are 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 have 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's government isn't a very fragile state right now. when he comes to his, 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 u. s. i think is where it is actually having a more pragmatic approach. and we've seen that she wrapper, small of israel 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 some with this hub push more maybe 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 juliano. the type, the emma will be right back. i ah

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let it be an arms race group is on offense. very dramatic development. only personally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very political time. time to sit down and talk ah, welcome back to the m o. i'm manila, cham 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 positions china as the 21st century leader has the global pecking order begun to shift? absolutely to he's assigned that we finally have what i call i call adult in who i go way way too. 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. they 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 partnership. 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 string, which is that which is going to damage germans economy and ultimately which, which will lead to the dean. this revision of germany. what this is not how you treat your allies. so you, this is how they treat allies in ends is somehow it's of the, of the tracks. you know, it's about training. it's not about corp 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 whole chinese, the operates 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 in the u. s. and so in europe to is because of democracy, i mean, so called democracy, which, i mean, it is only by what it's, it's not really tv, it's not, it's a, it's the system of divided in control. gives you usually, of the free choice to the people. and it is extremely emotional, it is marketing they. they have done the same as the door with product. they don't you politicians as a petition, 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 who live funds to be not to who likes me . so you see the country extreme, a different approach. one which is very rational. china has a long history. it's solid 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 gave us a choice, an illusion of choice to people that somehow did if we chose did don't, because you put them in front of them people, they were pre selected, but they don't, they're not going to work for them. but they are going to work for the globalist belief. 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 very highly likely we see a lot of interest in the months you have blue countries are just showing the interest in joining bricks. i think when you look at breaks, the long term game here is about the dollarization of the was economy. because and if she will lead to the, the, the collapse of the us. the idea he is not about heading, you know, pushing for the collapse of the us economy. this is not what they want but is somehow just having a fair word. 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. and somehow you have a country like the u. s, which is a trade deficits. and which is boring money. it's showing depth. and is it causing all countries to buy it step? so it's a ponzi scheme that is not meant to be paid. and slowly, countries are understanding why, why saudi arabia in 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, and it's not a debt which is meant to be repaid. it's a ponzi scheme. once you stop financing us trade deficits then the policies can falls apart. and this is why these days you have many countries including us allies that are actually selling the u. s. false, because it's a ponzi scheme,

no breaks the book, this is long term. purpose is to create a currency which will be back by tangible, you know, commodities, gold. and somehow you don't empower those countries not to be enslaved by the u. s . dollar. and especially that the sanctions that can be used because the dollar has been weaponized in any case it but by using sanctions and somehow all those the sanctions to what position of u. s. dollar has backfired because this has accelerated the dealers nation. yeah. in fact, another group that's also expanding is the shanghai cooperation organization or the s e o. it's also anchored by china and russia. it's effectively both a regional security group, as well as an economic one. riyadh has signed a memorandum signaling that they want. what they call to be dialogue partners with the s c o stopping just short a full membership right now. similar to, you know,

russia being a cause i member of opec, the saudis, and the chinese are strengthening ties, while washington is attacking china on tick tock. so when you say to all of that, it seems like a little bit a loser attitude, especially when you look at how the managing with tick tock. china is created a house, i mean tick tock the, it's better. there's so many users there's, there's $150.00 millions of regular uses in the us and now they want to buy tick tock in somehow you for, if you're american, you want to, to bypass, you need to use a v p n. so in reality, they say though, we, you know, in, under the cold war he was the u. s, it's more and more that the collective was, he's isolated itself, even when he comes to social media. another example, you know, you, they, they are not issuing these us easily to russians. russian has not,

is not binding people to visit russia. it's the collective west all alone. 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. would you, could you unstable? you my friend now, but if you could do it, we or something, i'm going to sanction you. that's not friends. you know? 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 u. s. a gemini, and all sorts control over europe over japan, australia, korea, which is a very small proportion 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 of 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 the, the can we gain the sovereignty. you know, once you not actually came to the us dollar, then you can have you, your currency, you, you begin your car, your sovereignty. so here it's about how we can do this transition. this is a theory of

o that the quarter to see that is trap where you had the shifts in was history. you had a 16 times, i think. well, you had to shift where you had in all declining power and yet the raising power and out of 16 times i. ringback 13 times it ended up in a war. so the big question now is to, to see 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 front of you, you have nuclear power countries. so now if you are going to wall, you know, this is mutual and lation. so it's about, are they going to be rational enough? ultimately if they really cherry so much so democracy, why, why don't the, the accept that, you know, they are not alone. and again, maybe the collective was,

he's not exceptional. like we seen 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 this, sir, this world where we have a mutual project of harmony of peace in knots. oh, my gain against you loss a lose lose in or he, it's about billing a, we're 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 hair care? longevity, tangible things in this is what we can achieve. you know, ultimately it's about really having, having peace in the world and, and,

but starting from home, you know, because ultimately, when you look at those geopolitical games are the 1st victims, americans leading the u. s. themself, maybe they, they need to regain no power. you know, it's it because democracy means demo cutoff power to the people. maybe maybe they, they want so much to explore democracy won't use, give back power to your own people. so you're probably at home. and that may be 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 collector was forced. 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 host manila chan. thanks for tuning in. we'll see you again next time to figure out the ammo. ah ah. 9 man boston superior. put 4000000. so you know this it to vehicle car yet know bless this house that was sort of be fish. you do so do you know the pin?

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