All right, Alexander, let's talk about Xi Jinping's trip to Serbia and Hungary.

And maybe we can start with his trip to Serbia.

And interesting speech from Vuchich with a huge crowd in attendance.

And then we can shift to Gis' meeting in Budapest with Victor Orban.

A very interesting statement and speech from Victor Oban.

Interesting way that Vucic and Orban welcomed Xi Jinping when he arrived in their countries.

A very, very big ceremony to welcome Xi Jinping to Serbia and then to Hungary.

I think that says a lot.

And an admission, a recognition that the power in the world today is China and that we are indeed in a multipolar world.

So I think that was that was the big message that we got

not from China, but from Serbia and from Hungary. And all of this follows Blinken's trip and

Yellen, Yellen and Blinken's trip to Beijing where we had warnings and threats and

ultimatums to China.

So what are your thoughts with this trip?

Well, I'm going to go against what I think is the conventional wisdom.

And I'm going to say that I think that the main purpose of Xi Jinping's trip to Europe was actually to visit Serbia and Hungary.

He had to go to a West European country and meet a leading EU leaders because if he'd just gone to Hungary and Serbia, it would have seemed like it was some kind of hostile

move. So that's why he went to Paris. He went to Paris because he knows that Macron is,

you know, a little bit flaky. He's somebody that you can talk to at other times and he'll come along and can agree with you.

So you can have a kind of civil meeting and conversation with him.

Of course, he had his mind of them, Macron, his mind of that in the person of Ursula von

the lion.

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