China's Military Just Tried to Kidnap Xi!

In this explosive episode, we break down what may be the biggest geopolitical story of the decade: a failed military coup attempt against Xi Jinping in January 2026. Top PLA leaders (including key Central Military Commission figures) were purged after an alleged raid on Xi’s hotel residence in Beijing led to a firefight and mass arrests. Xi has gutted the military leadership, leaving only loyalists in place.

We discuss:

* The timeline of purges, assassination attempts, tunnel explosions, and the leaked coup plot

* Why Xi’s consolidation of power is accelerating China’s path to collapse (demographics, food/energy insecurity, real estate bubble)

* The scary logic: Why attacking Taiwan (or elsewhere) might now make “sense” for Xi personally, even if it’s suicidal for China

* Parallels to autocracies throughout history and why centralized power always ends this way

* Why the West (and AI progress) might secretly benefit from chaos in China

* Bonus riffs on US domestic distractions (Minneapolis/ICE protests), organ harvesting rumors, and why nobody seems to care about real global inflection points

This is NOT mainstream coverage — it’s the raw, unfiltered analysis you won’t hear elsewhere. If you’re tired of slop-stream media ignoring the real threats, this is for you.

Sources & further watching: Lei’s Real Talk (summarized transcripts used), Winston & Laowai’s old China motorcycle vlogs for real cultural insights (sort videos by oldest).

Episode Transcript:

Malcolm Collins: Hello Simone. I am excited to be here with you today and I mean, I’m actually excited ‘cause. There is world changing news, like, like way bigger news than the Maduro situation. Way bigger news than anything that’s happened maybe in like the last half decade,

Simone Collins: but you probably haven’t heard about it.

Malcolm Collins: Not that many people are covering it, and I don’t understand why. So,

Simone Collins: because we’re so obsessed with this little city in the United States called Minneapolis.

Malcolm Collins: I, so for clarification, there was essentially a military coup just happened in China.

Simone Collins: In China, like China,

Malcolm Collins: China, like a ma, the second major power,

Simone Collins: Indianapolis or China,

Malcolm Collins: the heads of the military.

And, and so far of the, the CMC, the committee that. Makes up the military. And I’ll put a picture on screen here. Every single [00:01:00] member of it now, this is, this is the entire top of the Chinese government.

Simone Collins: Oh. We’ve gone to all of them. I, I,

Malcolm Collins: every member, but she and the secret police head, like the guy who’s in charge of Okay.

No,

Simone Collins: that’s why I saw, yeah. There was one

Malcolm Collins: left. Is arrested or killed at this point. And the two last one of these guys who hadn’t been, had a group of military members go and try to abduct g from where he lives, which is a hotel. And there was a firefight and a bunch of people died and they locked down parts of Beijing.

Imagine.

Simone Collins: I bet they just didn’t have the LRADs. If only they had our LRADs

Malcolm Collins: in Washington. The head of our military attempted to abduct Trump, and the next day what we were talking about was some dumb piece of nonsense who got shot by law enforcement because he physically attacked them while carrying a gun.

Right? Like that’s

Speaker: an officer approaches your [00:02:00] car, be polite.

Speaker 2: Is there a

Speaker: problem, officer? And stay in your car with your hands on the wheel.

What the f**k do want motherfucker? Unless you wanna ask this,

Malcolm Collins: right? You know that, that, that video people watching, they’re like, well, they had already gotten the gun. Out of his hands before he had it when he attacked them. Right? Like, well, what do you mean? I understand? Yes, you shouldn’t shoot him after you get the gun outta his hand.

But that’s a heightened situation, okay? These are still human beings, right? If you’re in a conflict with somebody and note they have a gun, even if you successfully think you might have just knocked it out of their hands or didn’t see that, somebody just knocked it out of their hands. You’re, you’re taking fire.

I’m

Simone Collins: sorry. Yeah. I mean, the, the way I look at it is it’s, it, it’s obviously illegal to hit someone who’s crossing the [00:03:00] street like in a crosswalk. Well, and at any point, right? Yeah. But before you cross the street, you should probably look both ways, you know, like, don’t just, just walk blindly into the street.

And I think, you know, obviously. One attacking someone in some kind of, you know, federal position. They’re not law enforcement. They’re, they’re law enforcement officers, okay. Attacking a law enforcement officer and doing so well armed. Like those are sort of two things that you shouldn’t have done.

An ice shooting. We got another ice shooting.

Speaker: here. See, nobody cares.

Simone Collins: So yeah, it’s, it’s one of those, like, this shouldn’t have happened, but but the larger scheme of things though, we are talking about why is anybody talking conflict here versus.

China, China, the, the future of the country the end of a regime possibly. And this is really big.

Malcolm Collins: This is, yeah, this is a complete transformation of how the, the government in China functions and is structured. It’s going to completely change the types of actions that they are likely to carry [00:04:00] out in the future.

It completely aligns with all of my China predictions that

Simone Collins: I had. Well, I need, so I’m, I’ve spent probably three hours watching coverage of this and I still can’t really make heads or tails. There’s a tunnel, there’s an explosion, people are disappearing. Families have been arrested. Individuals. So this please break it down for people even who have been aware of this.

‘cause I think it’s actually quite confusing and I’m having trouble

Malcolm Collins: keeping track it. I’ll separate, then we’ll go into more detail. Okay?

Simone Collins: Okay. Yeah.

Malcolm Collins: So the, the, the head of the PLA and then I think the head of the air force. So the two final like heads of the, the all of Chinese armed forces.

Simone Collins: Okay.

Malcolm Collins: Alright.

They have been in a sort of conflict with, xi Xi Jingping for a while at this point. They both really well, wanted to kill each other basically. Now the heads of the army, I do not feel like they started it right. They were maybe against him over consolidating power.

Simone Collins: Mm-hmm.

Malcolm Collins: But obviously they’re, they’re worried about this and they’re backed by the Princeling faction.

These [00:05:00] are the people who are the descendants of the people who worked in Mao’s government and various very wealthy people in China. Right. Ma,

Simone Collins: because I, I heard that some are also, they were loyalists to Hu Genal, but not Xi Jinping. And so they,

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