All right, Alexander, let's talk about what is happening in China.

We have the third plenum of the Chinese Communist Party, and it's not getting much coverage,

but this is a big event, and it looks like China is continuing its economic policies that we've seen

them initiating over the past couple of years and they are continuing their support of

bricks, their support of Russia. And I also, from my understanding, they're working with

India as well to try and fix the issues that they have with India. So anyway, what is happening

in China? A big event. You absolutely, you know, this event has attracted almost zero attention from the international media.

There's been one rather sniffy editorial about it in the Financial Times, but mostly people are ignoring it.

And I think this is extremely unwise because China has the world's biggest manufacturing economy.

It by far, according to the World Bank and the

IMF on a purchasing power parity basis, it is now the world's biggest economy, bigger than the

United States. It is becoming a major power. What the Chinese Communist Party, which remains, you know, the governing party in China decides

and how it's going to try to develop and direct China for the future,

well, that ought to be a major news.

I mean, it ought to be at least there with, say, the US

president's state of the union address. But of course, nobody is paying any attention.

And, well, we've had this meeting. Technically, it is the third plenary session of the central committee, the 20th Central Committee

of the Chinese Communist Party, 20th in the sense that it's the 20th time that the Central

Committee has itself been elected. We don't need to go into the enormous details of exactly

which bodies it was that have announced this.

Suffice to say, this is the CPC's economic and political program for the next 10 years, going all the way up to 2035,

and we can see that they're doubling and tripling down on the economic and political

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