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I'm John Batchel with my colleague and friend Gordon Chang at Gordon G. Chang.

And we go to the Highlands of Scotland, pronounced Heelands.

Fraser Howie, the author of Red Capitalism, the co-author of.

However, we're going to update Red Capitalism because of photographs that appeared on the front page of the Financial Times 24 hours hence.

The photograph shows Xi Jinping grinning loudly.

You can hear the grin, surrounded by on day one,

Jack Ma and other billionaires who we thought had been exiled permanently for their

refusal of the shared data with the Chinese Communist Party. Clearly that has been solved.

And the next day, shaking hands with anonymous entrepreneurs,

all associated with the deep-seek success of these last weeks. In other words, China's putting out

the welcome mat to foreign investment, expecting Google to show up momentarily, question mark. Fraser, a very good day to you.

Two days of public relations with the world's investment class. Are they fooled? What do they want

to know, Fraser? Good evening to you. Good evening, John. Look, I think that's the right word.

It is public relations, because we know that for years now, Xi Jinping has been clamping down on the private

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