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Hello everyone, it's Wednesday, March 8th, 2023, and if you hear Billy Joel at the start of the hour, you know who's guest hosting.

I'm Julie Hartman, I am the co-host of the Dennis and Julie podcast with our friend, Dennis Prager, and I am also the host of my own three times weekly show called Timeless with Julie Hartman.

Just a quick word about Dennis and Julie, we just celebrated our one-year anniversary episode number 52, just launched, though now that I'm thinking about it.

Actually, episode 53 would mark one year, so maybe I'm a bit premature here with the bragging about the one-year mark, but hey, on Monday, it will be our one-year mark of Dennis and Julie.

It is one of the greatest honors of my life to do that show with Dennis, and it is a great honor to be guest hosting for you today.

Dennis is in Palm Beach at a Prager U Gala, and he is heading to Tampa Bay, Florida today.

So he's crossing the state over to the east side to meet with some members of the Tampa Bay radio station there.

So if you're in the area, be sure to listen in or even go in and see our dear friend, Dennis.

There's a lot of news today that I'm going to cover, certainly these January six tapes that Tucker Carlson has released is big news, also the kidnapping of four Americans in Mexico on Friday, two of whom tragically have been found dead.

But to start off this show, I'd like to talk to you about arguably the most consequential topic of our time, and that is our relations with China.

Which in the past few months, and in the past few days, as I'm about to tell you, have become increasingly hostile.

On Monday, President Xi Jinping of China bluntly rebuked the United States in an address to fellow government members.

He said, quote, western countries led by the United States have implemented all round containment encirclement and suppression against us, bringing unprecedented severe challenges to our country's development.

Again, this was on Monday, and this marks a pretty blunt harsh rebuke of the United States.

It's a secret that our relations with China have been hostile, but this is sort of kicking it up a step.

And then on Tuesday, Xi Jinping's foreign minister, King Geng, excuse me, said that unless the United States changes course with its policy towards China, quote, there will surely be conflict and confrontation.

Given that just last month, the Pentagon said that China officially has more intercontinental ballistic missile launchers than the United States, also given that China is developing killer satellites in outer space, which have the capability to shoot down other satellites, of course, including ours, and also given the fact that by 2035 people don't know this, but it's true.

China and Russia are planning to administer a joint Chinese Russian permanently manned moon base.

These comments by Xi Jinping have a lot of relevance to us now, and we need to take them seriously, especially because it appears that China is trying to see how we react to their words and actions, to see that if we are indeed strong enough to react appropriately.

I suspect that that is what the balloon incident of last month was about. If you think about it, it's a pretty absurd thing for China to send a blimp, even though it wasn't a blimp, it was sort of like a blimp, but certainly looked like one over the United States for quote unquote surveillance, even though they have satellites, which have the even stronger capabilities than a balloon would have as far as surveillance.

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