All right, Alexander, let's talk about Blinkin's visit to China and the viral moment that is

being shared all over social media is the people that's the person that came to greet

to greet Blinken at the airport. And it is it is fun to see that video. It's gone viral and

it's and everyone's joking about it. But it does show a lot. It does really reveal a lot as to,

as to what to expect in this meeting between Blinken and his Chinese counterparts.

So let's talk about it.

Blinken is the bad cop.

Yellen a couple of weeks ago was the good cop,

and Blinken is coming to deliver an ultimat them to the Chinese. What are your thoughts?

Well, the Chinese are absolutely furious about it. Now, I've been speaking to people like Sophia

Midgift, who of course keeps track of things in China and opinion there. And she says that

Chinese social media has been on fire about this. Chinese media generally has been on fire about this. The Chinese media generally has been on fire

about this. I've seen echoes of this in Global Times and others. The Chinese feel that yet again,

we've had a situation where Xi Jinping was persuaded by the Biden administration to come to

San Francisco. He had that meeting with Biden back in

November. It looked for a time as if things, you know, steps have been taken to steady the ship.

And what's happened instead is that as the weeks have passed, the US has been pressing forward

with its various policies. We've had the TikTok ban. We've had

the arming of Taiwan. People overlook that these are important parts of this package that has

just passed Congress on Saturday. The seizure of the $5 billion of Russian assets in the United States

is also relevant to this, because of course, if the United States can seize Russian assets,

give itself the legal power to do that, then of course you can do

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