Hedge-Fund Manager Kyle Bass on Winning the Economic and Ideological Battle with Communist China

04/20/20 • 40 min

Kyle Bass (@Jkylebass) is the Chief Investment Officer of Hayman Capital Management, and arguably the most outspoken China hawk on Wall Street.

I had Bass on the podcast to discuss his views on the U.S.-China economic competition, what a U.S. grand strategy with respect to China might look like, and much more.

What We Discussed

Why Bass believes China is a paper tiger
China's ignored Achilles' heel
The Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) effort to set up a competing global reserve currency
How the CCP has ensured a predominant pro-Beijing narrative in the U.S., through developing relationships with our political class, titans of financial services and other powerful sectors of the economy, and Hollywood--to our great detriment
How America can use capital market reforms to end the CCP's unfair trade practices
What Bass would do if he was advising the Trump administration on trade vis-à-vis China
Whether America can decouple from China, and what the consequences would be
The economic viability of China's Belt and Road Initiative
The stakes of the competition with Huawei in 5G telecommunications technology
Making China pay for its culpability in the coronavirus crisis
China's biggest Achilles heel
Bass's three major recommendations for a U.S. grand strategy with respect to China

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Kyle Bass (@Jkylebass) is the Chief Investment Officer of Hayman Capital Management, and arguably the most outspoken China hawk on Wall Street.

I had Bass on the podcast to discuss his views on the U.S.-China economic competition, what a U.S. grand strategy with respect to China might look like, and much more.

What We Discussed

Why Bass believes China is a paper tiger
China's ignored Achilles' heel
The Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) effort to set up a competing global reserve currency
How the CCP has ensured a predominant pro-Beijing narrative in the U.S., through developing relationships with our political class, titans of financial services and other powerful sectors of the economy, and Hollywood--to our great detriment
How America can use capital market reforms to end the CCP's unfair trade practices
What Bass would do if he was advising the Trump administration on trade vis-à-vis China
Whether America can decouple from China, and what the consequences would be
The economic viability of China's Belt and Road Initiative
The stakes of the competition with Huawei in 5G telecommunications technology
Making China pay for its culpability in the coronavirus crisis
China's biggest Achilles heel
Bass's three major recommendations for a U.S. grand strategy with respect to China

Thanks for Listening!

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The Democrat-Deep State-Media Cover-Up that Protected the Russiagate Narrative -- Revisiting Awangate with Luke Rosiak

Luke Rosiak (@lukerosiak) is an investigative reporter for the Daily Caller News Foundation where he broke arguably one of the biggest scandals in the history of the federal government -- one the media refused to cover and the prosecutors refused to prosecute.

This is the story of Awangate, which proved no match for Russiagate -- but should have on its merits.

It is the subject of Rosiak's Obstruction of Justice: How the Deep State Risked National Security to Protect the Democrats, a book that has taken on new significance as the treasonous Russian collusion narrative collapses.

I had Luke Rosiak on the podcast to reflect on the story of the Awans, and its far broader significance for our nation.

What We Discussed

How the Awans amassed so much power on Capitol Hill
The breathtaking litany of criminality of the Awan conspiracy
Why and how House Democrats and the Department of Justice covered up Awangate – and House Republicans enabled it
Why Rosiak is confident members of Congress were blackmailed and are still susceptible to blackmail by the Awans, how deep the blackmail threat runs and why Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz’s behavior proves it
How politicians and bureaucrats put self-interest above national security
The inextricably intertwined relationship between Russiagate and Awangate, and what both “investigations” say about the Deep State
The Democrat-Media-Deep State collusion over Awangate
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her underlings’ role in rigging the Awan case for the Democrats’ benefit
The government’s failure to do anything to prevent future Awans from infiltrating Congress

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Next Episode

Rep Brad Wenstrup on the New Cold War with Communist China and Deep State Corruption

Rep. Brad Wenstrup (@RepBradWenstrup) (R-OH) is a doctor, Army Reserve officer, and Iraq War veteran who sits on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

I had Rep. Wenstrup on the podcast to discuss his views on what he describes as an emerging new cold war with Communist China, and the weaponization and hyper-politicization of our national security and intelligence apparatus.

What We Discussed

The CCP’s tightening of the noose on Hong Kong
Whether America should ditch the One-China Policy and recognize Taiwan
Long-term fiscal dangers as a consequence of the coronavirus
The railroading of General Flynn and Russiagate/Spygate
Weaponization and hyper-politicization of the national security and intelligence apparatus, and whether it should be reformed
The state of the FISA court and FBI

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