[Lude press | Dr. Yan Talks] Trump Announces Countermeasures Against the CCP’s “Economic Hostility”: Soybeans and Rare Earths Turn Into Boomerangs; Madagascar’s Military Defection Topples Pro-CCP Regime, Sending Beijing Into Panic. 10/14/2025

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01｜After Gaza Peace Deal, Phase Two Kicks Off to Take Down Hamas
President Trump posted on Truth Social:

“ALL TWENTY HOSTAGES ARE BACK. THE DEAD HAVE NOT BEEN RETURNED, AS PROMISED! Phase Two begins right NOW!!!”
Hamas has refused to give up its weapons or engage in any talks about power-sharing in Gaza—essentially handing the U.S. and Israel the justification they need to move forward quickly with the second phase of operations.
In an interview, Trump said: “If Hamas doesn’t disarm, we’ll disarm them. They know I’m not playing games.”
Now that the hostages are freed, Hamas has lost all leverage.

Key developments:
The idea of a “Palestinian state without Hamas” has become an international consensus.
Hamas has been legally and publicly branded as a “crime against humanity.”
The CCP-backed United Nations faction that defended Hamas has been sidelined.
With all living hostages rescued, the U.S. and Israel can act without restraint.
The “Gaza Peace Agreement” has already been signed or endorsed by most nations; anyone siding with the CCP over Hamas will be treated as a hostile actor.
Trump now serves as Chairman of the internationally recognized Peace Council, overseeing and enforcing the agreement. This has nothing to do with unilateral U.S. involvement. Any future strikes on Hamas are enforcement of peace terms. When Trump speaks now, it’s not a threat or warning; it’s a formal directive or an executive order.

02｜A New Strategy in Venezuela: Using Nobel Peace Laureate, Female Opposition Leader to Topple Maduro
Trump announced this morning:
“The Department of War has ordered a kinetic strike on a narcotics-trafficking vessel.”
The U.S. continues to tighten the noose around Maduro’s regime—combining naval encirclement with precision strikes on drug boats.
Meanwhile, Nobel Peace Prize winner and opposition leader María Corina Machado publicly offered Maduro safe passage if he steps down peacefully.
Maduro reportedly begged Washington for leniency, but the U.S. ignored him and kept up the pressure. Machado’s move redefined the situation: it’s not U.S. interference, but Venezuela’s own democratic opposition leading the transition, which completely derailed the CCP’s “anti-U.S. intervention” narrative. Now Venezuela can enter a peaceful transition without war.
Machado has also proposed U.S.-Venezuelan energy cooperation and partial privatization of the oil industry to attract American investment, which is Venezuela that is taking the initiative, not U.S. eyeing their oil, but intending to break OPEC’s Middle Eastern monopoly and signaling that the new leadership will not align with Beijing.

03｜Trump Escalates Economic War on China, Declares CCP’s “Economically Hostile Acts”; Soybeans and Rare Earths Boomerang Back
Trump posted on Truth Social:
“I believe that purposefully not buying our soybeans, and causing difficulty for our Soybean Farmers, is an economically hostile act,” he said. “We are considering terminating business with China having to do with Cooking Oil, and other elements of Trade, as retribution.”

U.S. Trade Representative Greer added:
“The United States will not allow China to maintain a veto power over the world’s supply chains.”
(Comment: “Veto power” here echoes the logic of nuclear agreements, where Iran was denied such authority.)

Both soybeans and rare earths—once used as Beijing’s leverage—are now boomeranging back against the CCP. The U.S. can finally hit back with retaliatory measures.
In the past, U.S. tariffs on China were targeted—like responses to fentanyl or trade imbalances. But “economic hostility act” is a broader legal classification under U.S. law, meaning Washington no longer needs one-to-one justification or to limit itself to tariffs.
Trump is telling the American people: Economically, we’re fully decoupling with China and the CCP . This is a national-security call and unavoidable. It’s also a form of war mobilization.
“Economically Hostile Act” is an official term under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and Trading with the Enemy Act to define enemy’s activities.
Washington will allow a short grace period for Xi Jinping to back down. If he doesn’t, the U.S. can legally move to wartime-scale sanctions—asset freezes, import bans, and more.
Trump’s declaration signals both to Americans and the allies: get out of China to avoid risk—invest in the U.S. instead. The era of “hard decoupling” has officially begun.

04｜Why Trump Is Attending APEC in Asia
Two main reasons:
To meet Japan’s new Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi.
To confront South Korea’s defiant President, Lee Jae-myung.

Trump has said whether he meets Xi Jinping or not doesn’t matter—but if he does, under international law such a meeting would be considered a “pre-war high-level contact.”
From Trump’s team’s perspective, the timing is right. A direct meeting with Xi would demonstrate that the U.S. exhausted all peaceful options before taking stronger measures—important for moral, political, and diplomatic legitimacy.

05｜FCC Cracks Down on Chinese E-Commerce Selling “Restricted List” Gear; Major U.S. Online Retailers Pull Millions of CCP-Banned Electronics
Across multiple fronts, the U.S. is moving to completely remove the CCP from its supply chains.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) launched the “Clean Your Cart” campaign, forcing major online platforms to delist millions of products on the “restricted items” list—devices from Huawei, ZTE, Dahua, Hikvision, and others.
Last month, the FCC also revoked certification rights from several Chinese testing labs, meaning Chinese electronics can no longer obtain U.S. compliance certificates or sneak into the American market through indirect routes.

06｜After Nepal and Peru, Madagascar’s Military Mutiny Terrifies Beijing
Madagascar’s army announced it had seized power; President Andry Rajoelina fled and was impeached by parliament.
Protests or elections don’t scare Beijing—but a military defection does. CCP propaganda outlets are in shock. Here’s why:
Madagascar was one of Xi Jinping’s key African Belt and Road partners, and one of the first Belt and Road signatories.
It wasn’t just a coup—it was a successful mid-conflict defection. The Chinese media barely dared to mention the “defection”, saying it was a “military intervention.”.
The mutiny troops were elite units that helped Rajoelina take power in 2009. They turned against him this time.

The CCP has now lost not only Madagascar’s rare earth resources but also a key piece of its “second island chain” strategy. Madagascar’s geography is uniquely strategic: it faces the Mozambique Channel, sits along the main shipping routes of the Indian Ocean, connects northward to East African ports like Tanzania and Kenya, links eastward to India, Sri Lanka, and the Strait of Malacca, and extends southward to routes leading toward Antarctica. Beijing’s presence there was meant to secure control over the Indian Ocean—especially its southern energy and shipping corridors.

07｜Myanmar’s Infamous KK Scam Park (Myawaddy Thai-Myanmar Border) Thrives After Crackdown, Mass-Adopts Musk’s Starlink
Behind Myanmar’s scam factories are the CCP — specifically intelligence operatives tied to the PLA General Staff — and Beijing will not give up these fraud operations. Under the cover of “scam parks,” CCP agents run a range of underground industries, including human trafficking and organ trafficking.

Beijing actually wants more of its people embedded in these operations during any “crackdown,” because that strengthens its foothold. But countries that have already shown their loyalty to the U.S. want those Chinese-run scam networks removed — otherwise those nations and regions risk being devastated.

Ironically, Elon Musk once refused to provide Starlink to Ukraine but Starlink service has turned up in these scam camps. Reports say you can see more than 80 Starlink dishes on a single rooftop. Even though Starlink has no official license in Myanmar, since July it suddenly became the top internet provider there. Now a bipartisan congressional economic committee in the U.S. has opened an investigation into Starlink’s involvement with the scam zones.