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On Tuesday’s Wake Up America segment, China hawk Gordon Chang joined Victoria Coates to deliver a blunt message: Beijing’s economy is wobbling and should be hit harder for its hostile posture toward the United States and for enabling bad actors like Iran. The duo argued that now is not the time for complacency; rather, it is the moment to ratchet up economic pressure until adversaries pay a real price for aggression and destabilizing behavior.
Chang made no apologies for crediting President Trump’s tough trade and technology posture with exposing China’s economic vulnerabilities, saying that tariffs, export controls, and tough diplomacy have squeezed Beijing and revealed structural weaknesses. Conservatives should celebrate a strategy that finally pushes back against decades of one-sided trade and technological theft, because a stronger America depends on a weaker status quo that let China prosper at our expense.
Victoria Coates emphasized the Iran angle, warning that discounted Iranian oil and other shadowy bargains can reward regimes hostile to the West, and that China often plays both sides to its own short-term gain. We should not reward regimes that undermine regional stability; instead, America should tighten the screws on nations that trade with our enemies and keep strategic resources out of hostile hands.
Make no mistake: economic pain is a legitimate and necessary tool of statecraft. While left-wing elites wring their hands about “global stability,” patriotic leaders must prioritize American workers, supply-chain resilience, and national security over cheap goods and cheap talk. If that means higher tariffs, stricter export controls for advanced chips, and targeted sanctions on state-backed firms, so be it — our prosperity and safety are worth the fight.
Skeptics will howl about blowback and market disruptions, but the alternative is long-term strategic surrender. The smarter, braver course is to combine discipline at home — rebuilding manufacturing and energy independence — with relentless pressure abroad so that competitors know there is a cost to aggression. This is the policy that actually protects American families, not the hollow diplomacy of those who have preferred appeasement for decades.
Newsmax gave viewers an important service by airing straight talk from Chang and Coates: Washington must stop pretending that balanced growth and soft words will tame tyrants. Hard power plus economic muscle is the conservative answer to a dangerous world, and patriotic Americans should demand policies that make adversaries pay while we rebuild our own strength.
