The 130-year arc just closed in Beijing

Edition 8, 18 May 2026

Trump's state visit to Xi Jinping was not the first American move to free China from the City of London. It was the third.

The China pivot: 130 years closed

EM Burlingame told us of the first American move: a treaty between China and the US. In 1867 his ancestor Anson Burlingame, Lincoln's ambassador to the Qing court, signed the Burlingame-Seward Treaty. This granted China Westphalian nation status and the right to sign treaties as a nation amongst nations.

The British response to this was the Opium War and the destruction of the Qing dynasty.

The second American move towards China was Nixon's visit in 1972. Burlingame asserts that the intention was to his was to lift China out of British-aligned communism control. Nixon paid dearly for this, with Watergate which was a sting by the CIA.

They tried to do me like Jack.

Richard Nixon (quoted by EM Burlingame)

The third move is being made now. Andrew Bridgen and Brigadier General Blaine Holt said that Trump was ending 337 years of City of London machinations against China. Joaquin Flores added the texture missing from most coverage. The cooperation has been working in the open since Trump's first term, hidden inside the appearance of rivalry, because plans of this scale only work when the analyst class believes the principals are enemies.

Agreements and coordination, cooperation are best hidden within the rubric of apparent conflict.

Joaquin Flores

Firm evidence of this was considered by Tom Luongo and Alex Krainer. 200 Boeing jumbo jets to be built in the US for China. The CIA is briefing against the deal in the British and American press. In contrast when Keir Starmer turned up in Beijing earlier this year, all he got from China was a promise to buy more Scottish whisky and a translator to show him the tourist sites. Trump got a full state visit and welcome.

The Sanctions Empire Dies

The sanctions architecture is the City of London's primary global weapon. The United States has stopped enforcing it.

Vivify Mariposa traced the mechanism. When Trump and Putin met in Alaska, Russia began storing oil on tankers offshore. Russia has plenty of onshore capacity, so the move was strategic. The moment the Iran war began, Trump dropped the sanctions that stopped Russia selling its oil and the offshore tankers started unloading.

Ace, of the Ace Fire channel, discussed how Trump had robbed Iran of its biggest customer. China had been buying roughly 90% of Iran's exported oil at sanctioned prices. Trump's pitch to Xi in Beijing resulted in China agreeing to buy more US oil. America is now the biggest net exporter, shipping more crude than the next two exporting countries combined, with too much oil and not enough refineries. China can buy American at scale and stop relying on discount barrels routed through Hormuz that suffer from price volatility.

If the deal closes, Iran's largest customer disappears in a quarter and the City loses one of the last commodity flows it could still pressure.

Britain At The End Of Itself

Domestic British politics is little more than theatre played out over a collapsing balance sheet.

Andrew Bridgen, the former MP, explained the process of replacing Starmer as Labour Party leader now that more than 90 Labour MPs have publicly called on Keir Starmer to resign after Labour lost roughly 1,500 council seats. Labour's bureaucratic rules guarantee a four-to-seven-week leadership challenge. Starmer's name goes on the ballot automatically. Any challenger needs 81 signatures to join him. At least four cabinet members have privately told him to go.

Keir Starmer is in between the dog and the fire hydrant. His overlords at the City of London are cashiering him right now.

Brigadier General Blaine Holt

Holt and Bridgen discussed the succession plan. Nigel Farage is being positioned as the post-Starmer figure who will finish what Starmer started. That is why Reform's polling surge has not provoked the panic from the establishment that a genuine outsider would.

EM Burlingame spelled out what is more important than Westminster: banking, finance and economics. The rest is theatre. British gilts are the worst-performing sovereign bond in the G20, the canary in the financial coal mine. What the markets are pricing is the liquidation of the British Empire from the inside.

Burlingame called the current moment phase seven of unconventional warfare transition. Phase six is civil war. The financialist class is betting it can step across phase six because the British public has been demographically diluted, economically diminished and culturally disconnected enough that they will not rise. EM is not sure that is how it will play out.

Mark Attwood offered an alternative perspective: Starmer is "our Joe Biden", deliberately absurd, he is a catalyst for a Great Awakening. Seeing Starmer's stumblings is waking more and more people up, Attwood argued.

Why the Democrats are panicking

Tom Luongo recorded on Friday and laid out the midterm map. Supreme Court-ordered redistricting in Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Florida and Texas has shifted the House map to between +9 and +12 seats in favour of the Republicans.

That morning, Tennessee's eight-term Democrat in the one blue district in the state announced he is not running again. The district is now red.

James Carville, the old Clinton hatchet man, is on Instagram posting degrading things about Donald Trump's anatomy. Luongo reads that as the clearest signal yet that the Democrats know they are losing. Republicans are raising way more money than the Democrats at roughly 10 to 1. The NGO laundering pipelines that ran on US taxpayer money have been cut off by the Trump administration. The Dems can no longer siphon funds off them.

Normal people are not on Twitter. The United States is not a 50-50 country. It is a 65-35 country.

Tom Luongo

Disclosure and the long unwinding

The week's most overlooked story was the UFO release. According to Joaquin Flores, yhe point is not the contents of the files. The point is that Trump's first administration tried to declassify them and was blocked. The second administration has not been blocked and is releasing the files.

The US Government's position is to offer the files to the American people thus: here is the verified material, civil society and the scientific community work it out among yourselves. That is what a responsible government does. It allows people to decide for themselves. This can only happen if the deep state has been penetrated, redefined and weakened. The deep state has not been abolished. Yet.

Watch this week's eleven interviews on the channel. They are the source for everything above.

Seeing through the fog

The week's stories are surface ripples on a single liquidation that has been deferred since 1867. The City of London is the banking system that has run the Anglosphere as a private asset since the 1600s. The bond markets are pricing its end. The politicians do not matter. The civil servants do not matter. What matters is who owns the financial plumbing, and the plumbing is being repossessed by countries the City no longer controls.

The Crown of England is not the enemy. The Crown is captive. The work in front of British subjects is the work of separating the institution from its captors. The lawful and peaceful route is Trust law. Notaxforwar.com sets out the mechanism. . Withholding tax from a regime conducting unlawful war is not rebellion. It is necessary lawful, legal peaceful resistance.

All the best.