All right, Alexander, let's talk about Xi Jinping's trip to Europe that he will be taking,

I believe in May, in early May. He is going to go to France, possibly Serbia. He's also going to be

meeting with Putin back in China as well.

And there's talk that Schultz will also, or Schultz is trying to get to Beijing as well.

Maybe even blinkin.

It looks like Xi Jinping is putting together something.

He's working the diplomatic channels to try and maybe get something,

some sort of resolution with regards to the conflict in Ukraine,

maybe with Israel and Gaza.

Who knows?

But everyone is lining up to see Xi Jinping. Not many people

lining up to see Biden. Nobody wants to see Biden. Before we get on to that, I think the thing

to understand is that the Chinese currently are on a role and they know it.

I mean, they are feeling very, very confident about their position.

Yellen, as we know, was just in Beijing, another person who came to Beijing,

though she didn't, by the way, meet Xi Jinping, or at least not that I'm aware.

Apparently, she was coming, making threats about Chinese support for Russia, and also at the same

time demanding that the Chinese, you know, reduced their exports of high-tech things, and

there's all that talk about overcapacity and that they

buy Chinese, American debt. Anyway, it was an acknowledgement, suffice to say, that the Chinese are

in a strong position. That is how the Chinese read it, that the Chinese economy, far from being

stagnant or collapsing or in

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