Cyrus Janssen on trade with developing countries

Just last year, China announced it would have zero tariffs for all developing countries around the world, cementing its position as the trading leader for the Global South.  Meanwhile, the United States currently has sanctions on one-third of the global economy, including 60% of all poor countries.  If I'm a developing country looking who to trade with, it's a no-brainer: China is the clear partner.

~ Cyrus Janssen, "Harvard Economist Reveals Shocking Secret About Trade War with China," Cyrus Janssen, 3:15 mark, February 9, 2025

Cyrus Janssen on the real China vs. conception of most Americans

This summer we went back to China, we traveled two months throughout China.  We were sharing videos on Instagram with our friends back in America and no one could believe.

This is China?  This is what China looks like?  The roads are this clean?  The cities this good?  The malls are this well?  The meals are this great?  The food is this fresh?  The people are this friendly?

This is the sad thing.  I think for most Americans their conception of China is still stuck in 1970.  It's still Chairman Mao suits, bicycles, poor country, underdeveloped, communism, no freedom, totalitarian society.  This is what the stereotypes about China are.  I lived in China for 10 years.  There's not really many freedoms that I didn't have.  There's not really a huge difference between the United States and China.

~ Cyrus Janssen, "Shocking Truth About China Told by an American," Max Chernov, 1:05 mark, October 14, 2024

Cyrus Janssen: "I don't believe that China is the biggest threat to the United States"

One fundamental belief that has really guided me a lot is be the change you want to see in the world.  It's very simple...  So I want to see a change between the U.S. and China.  Maybe I'm too small.  Maybe I'm just one person.  Maybe I can't really influence this, but I'm going to go try.  I'm going to try to be that change that I want to see in the world.

I don't believe that China is the biggest threat to the United States.  That is something that I'm going to die on.  It's a fundamental belief of mine that's something that I'm going to continue to preach on.  So when I talk to people, when I speak in conferences around the world, when I speak to anybody, from the side of the street to...  I went to a local pharmacy and there were two guys talking about China.  "Oh, China's taking all our jobs, there's no manufacturing anymore in America because of China.  China's the problem!"  And I thought, "What's interesting is that, what phone do you have?"  

"Oh, I have an iPhone."  

"Okay, well, if we bring that factory back to America, we're going to have to hire Americans for about $50 to $60 an hour because they won't work for less than that in a factory.  They don't want to do that job.  So are you willing to pay $5,000 to $6,000 for an iPhone?"  

"$5,000 to $6,000?  That's insane."

"Exactly, that's why we need China, because there's also a fundamental reason why Apple's gone to China, is because they're able to produce the best quality phones, at the best prices and they do so because it's China...  And as a result, Apple's become one of the most valuable companies in the world.  So if anything, just go buy some Apple stock and enjoy the tangible benefits that come from dealing with China,"

~ Cyrus Janssen, "Shocking Truth About China Told by an American," Max Chernov, 38:15 mark, October 14, 2024

Cyrus Janssen on the possibility of a hot war between the US and China

Many people don't realize how important China is to the United States economy and just to how Americans live their average life.  Without China we couldn't function.  And so the trade still goes on, though the tensions have ramped up significantly since [2008].

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As for tensions, unfortunately, if I had to make a prediction, I think that they're going to increase.  I think that we're going to see more tensions between the United States and China, but we're going to see this increase because there is a fundamental problem happening in the United States where we are experiencing a very difficult time politically...  The U.S. democracy has never been weaker than at this moment right now.  So our government has a tremendous amount of internal problems.  And the problem right now is that we're distracted by other countries.  For example, you often hear many U.S. politicians say, "the greatest threat to the future of the United States is China."  But in reality, it has nothing to do with China.  Everything is by looking in the mirror.  The biggest threat to the United States is the United States itself...  How do we fix our own house?

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So I think that what you're going to see between the United States and China is China continuing its influence around the world, for example when we look at Africa, we look at other countries in Asia, many of them are shifting towards China.  I think that the United States is going to continue wanting to sanction China, wanting to impose trade tariffs, wanting to limit Chinese technology.  And we're going to see this continuous battle for the next few years.

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I'm an optimist, I'm always an optimist, so I will always say that I'm positive about the future of the world.  And I always say this, I don't believe that the United States and China will get involved in a confrontation.  I don't believe that they will go to war because I don't think many people understand this, is that if the United States and China get involved in a hot war, that is the end of the economy.  That is the end of the world.  That literally will wreck every stock market, all of the industries.  We're talking absolute chaos for the entire globe.  No country will be unscathed from that wrath if the United States and China get into a hot war.  I do think that both sides understand that...  I do believe in humanity.  I do believe that at the end of the day that cooler heads will prevail and that peace will happen.

~ Cyrus Janssen, "Shocking Truth About China Told by an American," Max Chernov, 18:00 mark, October 14, 2024

Colonel Douglas Macgregor on Chuck Schumer's speech on the Gaza invasion

Cyrus Janssen: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, he did come out a couple of weeks ago and say Netanyahu is the biggest obstacle to peace in the Middle East.  He had a very powerful speech that obviously not supported by the Netanyahu regime.  He was very upset about that, immediately came out blasting him.  Of course you have some people within our Senate and our Congress who had pushed back against Schumer.  Do you think that was really the Democrats trying to somehow save some face here?  Because at one point we just passed a bill for an additional $3.8 billion to Israel and at the same standpoint we are blocking now foreign aid to the UNRWA, which is the only relief agency which actually provides humanitarian assistance to the people in Gaza...

Colonel Douglas Macgregor: Well, first of all I don't think Chuck Schumer was terribly serious about any of it.  That was sort of a smokescreen designed to give, as you say, the Democrats and President Biden some cover.  It wasn't taken seriously in Israel because they know he's not serious.  You heard him speak: "I've supported Israel all my life.  There's no one more supportive of Israel than I am.."  Effectively declaring himself an Israeli.  

~ Colonel Douglas Macgregor, interview with Cyrus Janssen, 12:20 mark, April 3, 2024

Elena Mayers Taylor on how Olympic athletes rely on corporate sponsorships

My husband and I and hundreds of others wear "Team USA" uniforms, so people assume that the U.S. government funds us.  Not so.  Most American Olympians work full time or part time in addition to their Olympic training.  And we all depend on companies to pay for training, equipment and competition fees.  

For my family and many others, sponsor support isn't a bonus or nice-to-have - it's a need-to-have.  One example: In 2020, sponsor support enabled me to take time to have a child.  If you're a competitive athlete, not competing means not earning prize money - there's no "paid parental leave" on the bobsled circuit.  Because we saved some of our sponsor funds from the last Olympics, I was able to give birth to my son and take time to recover.

~ Elena Mayers Taylor, American bobsledder and winner of two Olympic medals in Beijing, "Is Eileen Gu a Traitor to America? | American Expat Shares the Truth," Cyrus Janssen video, 2:30 mark, February 10, 2022

Cyrus Janssen how the U.S. benefits from trade with China

It is true, when Richard Nixon went to China almost 50 years ago and began this relationship between the United States and China, and the 1980s, when China started to embrace these capitalistic measures, there certainly was some elements from Western culture that helped revitalized the Chinese economy.  However, I would actually say it's America that is really biting the hand that has really helped it.  You see, America has benefitted tremendously and we can't pretent that only China has gotten rich.  America has gotten tremendously rich from their relationship with China as well.  It's a two-way street.  And America benefitted in two ways: The first way is they were able to manufacture their goods for a fraction of the price because of the cheap labor in China.  In addition to that, as the Chinese economy grew, American companies then were able to take their products and send them back into China and then also have a very viable market.  And that is why some of these major companies, like a Disney, like Starbucks, like Apple, like Tesla, why they've really been able to grow phenomenally over the last 10 years specifically and that is directly because of the Chinese consumers.  So with that being said, who's biting who's hand now?

~ Cyrus Janssen, "The Truth About Michael Pompeo and China," YouTube, 9:00 mark, August 8, 2020

YouTube comment on how Bruce Lee paved the way for Eileen Gu

This feels like a Bruce Lee breakout moment, where he was once asked in an interview in 1971, are you going to stay in Hong Kong or go to the US to be famous, he replies “I am going to do both because you see I’ve already made up my mind that in the United States I think something about the oriental – I mean the true oriental – should be shown… It is a false choice to be forced to choose between cultures or heritages if by birth or immigration status, you can be of both worlds and embrace both and identity as both and create something entirely new from this dual/multi-heritage interaction, Bruce Lee already showed the way, we just need to soak up his wisdom and follow.

~ YouTube comment, alias "Norrin Jonzz," "Is Eileen Gu a Traitor to America? | American Expat Shares the Truth," Cyrus Janssen YouTube video, February 10, 2022