The China Thucydides Trap? + Venezuela, 51st State?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Charlie Kirk
4.6 • 65.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2026
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
President Trump is in China, and Chinese leaders are talking about...ancient Greece? Blake explains the "Thucydides Trap" and why China considers it so important in its negotiations with President Trump. Rep. Chip Roy talks about the struggle to arrest the Islamization of Texas. Ryan James Girdusky analyzes Trump's desire to acquire Venezuela as a state and the current House odds as weak state Republicans back off on taking as many seats as they can. Rich Baris stops in.
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Charlie Kirk. |
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| 1:17.1 | Welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show. It is Thursday, May 14th. We are here at the Y Refi Studios in Phoenix, Arizona. Welcome, Blake. |
| 1:26.0 | Hello. How are we doing this morning? Oh, we're doing |
| 1:28.0 | splendid. Wonderful. Well, we've got a lot of things going on internationally today. Of course, |
| 1:33.0 | President Trump is in China on a much celebrated trip to meet with President Xi. He was greeted |
| 1:40.7 | with a red carpet. We talked about it yesterday. More and more pomp, more circumstance, more celebrations, lots of, I would say, shows of welcoming. However, underneath the surface, it appears that the fault lines between these two nations are becoming more and more clear. There was a lot of speculation before this |
| 2:01.1 | trip to China. What would be the central fissures or fractures between the two countries? We understood |
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