China's Taking Hostages and Wall Street's Still Doing Business
The regime just admitted it’s holding a U.S. banker in the country. Still think this is just “competition”?
Good Morning, it’s Wednesday, July 23rd, 2025.
While most of D.C. obsesses over stadium names and polling averages, China just confirmed it’s detaining an American executive as leverage. This isn’t diplomacy—it’s economic warfare with real human casualties. And the same corporate elites who lecture us about “global values” are still cashing checks from Beijing. The Wells Fargo banker being held hostage is just the beginning.
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China Confirms Exit Ban on Wells Fargo Banker
China isn’t just playing hardball—they’re taking hostages. This week, Beijing confirmed that a U.S.-based Wells Fargo executive is under an “exit ban” and can’t leave the country. They’re calling it a legal matter. Let’s be real—this is state-backed financial kidnapping, and it marks a dangerous new front in the economic war between the U.S. and the CCP.
Under President Trump’s second term, America’s stance toward China has shifted from compromise to confrontation. As tariffs tighten and Chinese markets wobble, Beijing is turning to intimidation tactics. First, it was trade blackmail. Now, they’re using American citizens as leverage. If you’re a U.S. executive operating in China right now, you’ve got a target on your back—and your government badge won’t save you.
The corporate media will call this a “diplomatic incident.” It’s not. It’s hostage-taking by a hostile regime. And every suit in Silicon Valley and Wall Street who thought they could cozy up to the CCP for profit? This is your wake-up call. Trump’s crackdown isn’t just about policy—it’s about protecting Americans who’ve been sold out by globalist greed.
We’ll see if the CEOs still think “cheap labor” is worth it when they’re negotiating with hostage-takers instead of trade reps.
Trump Threatens Stadium Deal Over Redskins Name Change
Trump just drew a hard cultural line in the turf—no new stadium for the Washington Commanders unless they bring back the Redskins name. This isn’t about football. It’s about holding woke corporations accountable for caving to mob pressure and erasing decades of American sports heritage to please a handful of Twitter activists.
The Commanders ditched their iconic brand to virtue signal, tanked their merch sales, alienated their fan base, and now want taxpayers to foot the bill for a shiny new stadium? Trump’s response: not on my watch. If you’re going to sell out your legacy for woke brownie points, don’t come begging the public for help when it backfires.
This is the beginning of a new kind of political leverage—one where politicians start playing hardball with the companies that bowed to cancel culture. Corporations used to assume conservatives would complain and move on. Trump is flipping the script. You want government funding? Stop pretending the past never happened.
Harvard Battles Trump Over $2 Billion in Deep State Funding
Trump’s war on the establishment just hit the Ivy League. Harvard is in court trying to claw back over $2 billion in federal research grants after Trump’s administration pulled the plug. Why? Because the universities that groom the nation’s ruling class aren’t neutral—they’re political weapons, and Trump’s finally cutting off their ammo.
This isn’t about education. It’s about Harvard functioning as a talent farm for the deep state. These aren’t just professors and students—they’re future FBI agents, DOJ lawyers, CIA analysts, and bureaucrats who’ve spent years working to undermine Trump from inside the system. For decades, elite universities have funneled taxpayer cash into research that props up the very narratives used to discredit populist movements and preserve globalist power.
Trump’s move isn’t just financial—it’s surgical. By starving institutions like Harvard of federal dollars, he’s defunding the intellectual infrastructure of the opposition. No more hiding behind “academic freedom” while using your ivory tower to train the next generation of regime enforcers.
This is what it looks like when you hit the machine where it hurts. The swamp doesn’t just live in Washington—it has campuses, endowments, and tenure. And for the first time in decades, someone in power is treating it like the political cartel it is.
Democrats Blink First on Shutdown Bluff
Democrats just hit the brakes on their favorite stunt: the government shutdown threat. With a 10-week funding cliff staring them down, they’re suddenly talking “moderation” and “cooperation.” Don’t fall for the rebrand—this isn’t a strategic pivot, it’s a panic move.
These are the same people who weaponized shutdowns for four years straight, betting the media would blame Trump and they’d walk away as defenders of democracy. But now that Trump’s back in the spotlight and controlling the narrative again, the calculus has changed. If a shutdown happens this time, they take the hit—and they know it.
So they’re dressing up retreat as reason. They’re not backing off because it’s the right thing to do—they’re backing off because Trump has the microphone again and he’ll hang the consequences around their necks. They used shutdowns as political theater, and now they’re terrified the script flipped.
This is what fear of accountability looks like: sudden humility from a party that never had any when the headlines were on their side. They’re not moderating—they’re ducking for cover.
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“The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants.”
— Albert Camus
Thanks for reading and staying sharp. We’ll keep peeling back the polite lies and showing you what’s really going on. The façade of diplomacy is cracking—and behind it is a world where our enemies don’t play by the rules we’re told to follow.
If you think this is just about one banker, you’re already behind.
~ Scott 🇺🇸
P.S.
Let me say it plain: If Trump held a Chinese banker in Texas, the media would call it war. But when Beijing does it? “Diplomatic complexity.” What do you think—should U.S. companies still be doing business over there at all? Let me know.
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When China or Russia senses it's losing it's leverage… they take hostages as negotiating collateral. Trump won't tolerate this. He'll do what's necessary.