All right, Alexander, let's talk about what is going on in the world and China's role in everything that is happening from the One Belt One Road Summit to what's going on in the Middle East.

And maybe we also want to talk about Putin meeting with Xi Jinping. And if we have time,

we could even talk about Ukraine. If we have some time and with us to unpack everything that

is happening in the world and China's role in everything that is happening in the world. We have a special guest,

Sophia Midkiff, Sophia. Welcome to our channel. Thank you very much for joining us. And before we get

started and I pass it off to Alexander, are there any social media or video platform channels that you would like to let our audience know about where they can follow you?

I have a simple channel called a SmartTong Voice that I put content there from time to time. I will try to do some, put some more content there. But yeah, that's a place you can find me, yes.

Okay, great. Now we'll have all those links where you can find Sophia in the description box,

as well as a pinned comment down below. Alexander, let's talk about the news and let's talk about

China's role in the news. Indeed, let us indeed talk about the news and let's talk about China's role in the news.

Indeed, let us indeed talk about the news.

And we're very fortunate to have Sophia with us because Sophia obviously is from China.

As I understand it, you live in the West at the moment.

You are very active on Chinese social media.

So you have your finger on the pulse of Chinese opinion, public opinion, what people in China

are saying about things. And contrary to what many people imagine about China,

Chinese social media, from my understanding, is a very active place.

It's a very outspoken place. You get all kinds of very strong opinions and comments expressed there.

It's a very good way of getting a sense of the sort of pulse of feeling and thinking in China.

And at the same time, Sofia is able to guide us through the intricacies of Chinese politics and what's going on in China.

As she's often pointed out, for Westerners, China is not always an easy country to understand,

which is unsurprising. It's the biggest country in the world, I think, just still,

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