Hi everyone, Las La Montgomery here, back in Claremont again and let me say wherever you are in the world,

there's no place like home. I do have an overnighter to Minneapolis next week, but other than that, I'm staying put.

Now that all the hubbub is over and all the China experts and analysts, not to mention the people

of China, have weighed in with their two cents.

I thought it wouldn't be a bad idea for us to focus on Shijing Ping

and look at his life and this recent visit from the backdrop of China's recent history and this way we can

way we can gain a historical perspective about the events that have shaped his life.

Well, he came, he saw, and he conquered.

That is to say, everything went according to the script.

And wherever she-chin-Ping went, he was greeted with the usual suspects as far as the main pro-China and anti-China groups go.

But hey, this is all old hat for China and they are expert at working around these problems and everyone in the PRC

your leader did find. Most of the Weibaws I've read have also given

she Jin Ping the thumbs up. These visits by China's leaders are so risky these days.

In this day and age, especially where Mr. Shih was going, the kind of spontaneous moments that could happen these days that can be caught on

camera or video and in an internet instant there could be a hundred thousand

tweets and ten million way bawaws spreading the embarrassing moment around.

But he got out alive and didn't get splattered with any mud that I know of.

He's a handsome guy.

Yeah, I'll call him Shui, a nice presentable leader, and he speaks beautiful Mandarin.

Well, relatively speaking, of course, when I watch those old videos of Deng Xiaoping and Chairman Mao giving speeches, they're not even speaking Mandarin.

Mao is speaking his Shauschan version of the Hunan dialect and Deng spoke in the Suu Kyuan dialect.

Jang so mean, not so easy to understand.

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