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December 7 to 10, 2022. A state visit by the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist

Party Xi Jinping to Saudi Arabia to sit with the shakes who command the oil deposits and

dominate the Gulf in conversation with Eurasia. That would be Europe stretching to China.

But in this instance, Gregory Coply, editor-in-publisher of Defense and Foreign Affairs, is going

to introduce us to a brave new world where Eurasia is looking to its own future without

the United States of America and what it's represented in the 20th century. Gregory, a

very good evening to you. The state visit by Xi Jinping. It's not enough to say successful

or unsuccessful. What is or was his mission and did he achieve it? Good evening to you.

Good evening, John. Well, yes, in a report which was entitled Xi and Arabia,

Farmo, Consequential and Washington Realizes, we point out that this is actually a pivotal

time, a pivotal visit in which the cracks appeared in the U.S. domination of the global economy,

the global marketplace, the rules-based world order, which has essentially been a U.S.

rules-based world order for so long. We're starting to see cracks in that because the U.S.

had left a significant vacuum which will now have to scramble to fix up on it. The damage

has to a large extent been done and it was exhibited by Xi Jinping on his visit to a state

visit to Saudi Arabia. You remember that it was only in July that President Biden visited

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