Well, Michael Goodwin, the best columnist in America must reading every Sunday, every Wednesday in the New York Post.

Michael Goodwin. How you doing?

Good morning, Mark. Thank you.

What a column yesterday. You know, Donald Trump was really tough on China, but Joe Biden's been pretty weak for who knows what reason.

And China's starting to become more dominant.

This is a problem, isn't it?

Well, look, I think Biden is just weak, period.

I think that's the problem on the international stage.

And that, look, Mark, that's not a call for war or an aggressive American posture, always sort of, you know, with a chip on the shoulder.

But it is to project strength.

And I think that Biden projects weakness.

I mean, even in Ukraine, the way he continually waits, he's not really leading.

He's reacting. We saw what he did in Afghanistan, of course. And, you know, in the Mideast,

when he basically opened the door to china

by treating

as he said Saudi Arabia as a pariah that was his word

and he kept it

until he needed saturday to pump more oil then he went begging

and saudi arabia said we can't really count on

America anymore. Let's make a new friend. And so you have China, aligning with now with Iran

and Saudi Arabia, which of course is two of the great energy producers on the market, Russia being a third.

So China has secured its energy needs for a long time.

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