This is CBS. I am the world. I'm John Bachelors. Reuters reporting from China on National

Day, the People's Liberation Army's Eastern Theater Command in these last days, which

is known for belligerent videos of exercises around Taiwan, released an animated short

film called Dreams Come True on Fuchun River. Reuters saying this appeals to the shared cultural

roots of people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. The film featured two elves representing

the two pieces of the painting by Yuan Dynasty Master Huang Gong Wang, which was torn apart

in the 17th century by one of its owners. Gordon Chang at Gordon G. Chang, my colleague

and co-host, and we welcome Steve Yates. Steve is at the America First Policy Institute's

China Policy Initiative to help us understand this gesture by a propaganda wing of the PLA,

but at the same time, Steve, two elves? Now, you're familiar with Chinese culture. I understand

that. I am not. But I don't remember elves coming up except in debates about, can you name?

Can you name the elves of and then fill in the fairy tale? What is an elf in China?

Good evening to you, Steve. Oh, good evening, John. I have to confess that the study

of elves somehow escaped my training in classical Chinese language and literature, but there

are a couple of different ironies in this. First and foremost, any scholar of classical

China would know that the Yuan Dynasty was not actually a Chinese dynasty. That was a

Mongol dynasty. And so they've chosen a part of the dynastic cycle that was dominated

by Mongols that came from beyond what would be the great wall to conquer the continental

China, where the riverbeds are. The other irony is that apparently the painting was torn

apart during the Qing Dynasty, which also is not an ethnically Chinese dynasty. It was

banjo. So interesting that the PLA in their political warfare department is choosing to

highlight some animated film that gives the dream of unity of all Chinese people across

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