All right, Alexander, let's talk about Shoygu's trip to China.

Not much attention is being paid to this trip, obviously, given everything that's happened with Zelensky and Trump and the meeting in London.

On Ukraine, we did have Shoygu traveling to China, and I'm sure that one of the main topics that they have

been discussing does revolve around the negotiations between Russia and the United States,

and it's Russians keeping the Chinese up to date on what is happening with those negotiations.

Absolutely. It's a very important trip, actually, because any Chinese up to date on what is happening with those negotiations.

Absolutely.

It's a very important trip, actually, and you can see that the Chinese attached to great, you have importance to it, because Shuiu went to Beijing.

Remember, he is Putin's national security advisor, but, you know, he's not a senior, he's a very senior person,

but I mean, he's not the head of state or the head of government.

He would normally be expected to hold talks with his opposite number, who happens to be

Wang Yi, who is both China's foreign minister and Xi Jinping's national security advisor.

But along with those talks with Wang Yi, Shuiu was also met by Xi Jinping.

So Xi Jinping had a meeting with Shuiu, and it got lots of attention in the Chinese media.

So what's basically happening is this?

The Russians are now conducting talks with the Americans.

And I think it's, again, important to stress these are only talks at the moment.

There's been some agreements about unblocking embassies, appointing ambassadors, those sort of

things. There's a process towards normalization between the United States and Russia underway.

There's some talk eventually of reopening economic links of the Americans being able

to establish joint efforts in Russia to develop mineral resources.

They're that kind of thing.

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