All right, Alexander, we are here with Alex from Reportify.

Alex, how are you doing?

Thank you for joining us.

And before we get started with the video, where can people follow your work?

You can follow me at Reportify Media in most socials on X and also on YouTube.

Those are the main platforms.

I will have those links in the description box and as a pinned comment as well.

So Alex and Alex, let's talk about what is happening with the war in the Middle East, with the markets, with the energy crisis, and also with China's diplomacy, or at least a diplomacy that appears to be starting up.

So Alex and Alexander and Alex, I pass it off to you.

Well, indeed. And who better to discuss these things with than with Alex of Reportify, who knows the markets has a sense of what's going on there

and at the same time is based in China and has a feeling of what's going on there too.

And, well, we did a program with Alex and, by the way, and Cyrus Jansen as well, about two weeks ago, at the start of all of this.

And Alex, in that program, discussed the way the markets would eventually react and the effect on the global economy if this war continued.

And it seems to me that things are going up, going out, playing out pretty much as he said.

And just to remind people, he spoke about enormous stresses in the financial markets,

enormous stresses in the global economy.

And he and Cyrus also told us that China, contrary to what many people assumed, would probably come out all right. Well, Alex, we

aren't now further in. We've had a speech from the President of the United States and addressed

to the American people, which has caused great dismay here in London,

at least. People were expecting more. They were expecting some idea as to how this would end.

The markets appeared to have acted negatively. This after weeks of the president and his officials trying to reassure the markets,

giving them the impression that everything was going to end and end soon. But that didn't seem to be

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