Hello America and welcome to a Friday edition of John Solomon Reports. A podcast from

Justin Newswear today. Yes, we made it through a busy, sometimes frustrating week, right?

Those images from Afghanistan still trouble so many of us. And there are so many Americans

still left on the ground. So many Afghan friends, good people who did help the United States

during its 20 year war that are stranded, that our hearts and prayers and thoughts are

with them until every one of them is safe. But we've got a really, really great show for

you today. I'm really excited about it. Dr. Wafing Zhang is joining us. He is an international

expert on China and particularly what he's created as an index. It's very exciting where

he studies all the rhetoric of the communist government officials at every aspect of Chinese

communications and then creates a projection of what might be coming over the horizon for

China. Where are China's next most important move is going to be he uses artificial intelligence.

He gathers this information up. He makes projections and he has some pretty bold projections

about where communist Beijing is going in relationship to Taiwan in relationship to Afghanistan

and all those rare earth minerals we were talking about. Really a fascinating. We're going

to have a great deep dive today on China and why the current posture of Beijing and its

communist government matters to the future security of our great country. So we're going

to have that in a few minutes. Now before we get there, I wanted to point out a couple

of stories today. We continue to find out who and what types of Americans are left behind

in Afghanistan and my good colleague Sophie Mann confirmed that there are nearly 30 Sacramento

area students that weren't evacuated or still trapped there. Very important to keep an eye

on that. Secondly overnight, there was a British commander, the man who oversaw British

forces in Afghanistan for a long time. He had some pretty sharp words, Colonel Richard

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