Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words
Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words

Victor Davis Hanson: The Hong Kong Blueprint Xi Wants to Force on Taiwan

September 25, 2026

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Victor Davis Hanson opened the Friday news roundup by calling Donald Trump’s UN General Assembly speech one of the best he had ever seen the former president give. Trump did not play the usual diplomatic game, Hanson argued. Instead, he ticked off grievances against specific nations: Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, and Mexico. The Iranian delegation walked out when Trump called Iran the world’s greatest state sponsor of terror. Hanson was especially struck by Trump’s treatment of Mexico, which he described as an enemy of the United States on four counts: exporting illegal aliens whose remittances prop up a corrupt government, allowing China to circumvent tariffs by shipping cheap materials through Mexico, letting Chinese fentanyl precursors be processed by cartels, and broadcasting anti-American boilerplate at the UN. Hanson noted the irony of millions of Mexican nationals coming to the US for freedom and prosperity, then waving Mexican flags at protests. “I’m coming up here and I’m so proud of my Mexican ancestry that I don’t want to go home to it,” he paraphrased.

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  • 1 (00:46) **Trump’s UN Speech & the New World Paradigm** - Victor opens the Friday news roundup by praising Trump’s speech at the UN General Assembly, calling it "one of the best speeches I've ever seen Trump give."
  • 2 (14:55) **Midterm Worries & The 1992 Parallel** - Victor expresses deep concern about the midterms, drawing a direct historical parallel to 1992 when George H.W. Bush had a strong foreign record but lost due to a bad economy and poor messaging.
  • 3 (26:32) **The Left's "Influencer" Disinformation Campaign** - Victor and the host discuss how the Democratic Party is paying social media influencers to lie about the economy, targeting young people who don't understand GDP or inflation rates.
  • 4 (36:35) **Trump Meets Adams at Gracie Mansion** - Victor analyzes Trump's meeting with New York Mayor Eric Adams as a "polite reminder" of federal power over the city.
  • 5 (46:02) **The Greenland Security Deal & China's Decline** - Victor explains the strategic importance of the new US security deal with Greenland, which gives the US veto power over Chinese and Russian investment and two new bases in perpetuity.
  • 6 (51:12) **Xi's Purge & The Hong Kong Blueprint for Taiwan** - Victor discusses Xi Jinping's purge of two top generals for "corruption," which he interprets as a sign of internal dissent over military strategy.
  • 7 (55:18) **Midterm Politics & The Iran War** - Victor addresses the Iran war as the key issue turning swing-state politicians against Trump, noting even Laura Ingram seemed to agree with James Carville that the war was a "mistake."

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Show Notes

Donald Trump takes the stage at the UN General Assembly to confront adversarial regimes and reject globalist posturing.

Republicans risk throwing away an economic boom by failing to counter progressive narratives, argue Victor Davis Hanson and Sammy Winc on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.”

Drawing parallels to the 1992 election, Hanson cautions that solid fundamentals, including low poverty and rising per capita income, will be drowned out by paid social media influencers and midterm jitters over inflation and the ongoing war with Iran unless the GOP hones its message. 

They also dive into Beijing’s strategic dilemmas, analyzing Xi Jinping’s military purges and arguing that modern drone warfare is forcing China to pivot toward suffocating Taiwan through economic coercion rather than an outright assault.


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