All right, Alexander. Let's talk about Putin's trip to China and a hug.

Xi Jinping actually hugged Putin, which shows how close this, this relationship has become.

Alliance, I believe. I think either the economist or foreign policy came out with a post,

or maybe political, I don't know, all the same. They came out with a post and they said that this is

an alliance. China and Russia is an alliance, even though they don't call it that. But they also issued

a joint statement,

which talks about the multipolar world,

condemns the United States,

and its hegemon tendencies,

its hegemonic actions.

It talks about building a deeper cooperation,

military, education, information space, finance, trading in local

currencies, a quite an incredible trip by Putin to China. And of course, Putin brought

most of his government with him, at least many of the important top officials, including the

defense minister, and shui-goo was also by his side.

Yeah, I think you summarized it, but, you know, let's just go into a few more of the details.

This has been an extraordinary summit meeting, even by the standards of the Chinese-Russian relationship.

Now, I think it was the Financial Times, but it's likely that it's been said in more than one place.

They're talking about this as an alliance.

The Chinese and the Russians, of course, say it's more than an alliance.

It's better than an alliance.

It's not a formal military alliance, it's better than alliance. It's not, you know, a formal

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