This is CBS, I on the world. I'm John Bachelor with my good colleague Gregory Coppley, who's at sea on the

on the Queen Mary and we're having this conversation on

Starlink that's how useful it is I'm deep in the countryside of New England

Gregory's mid-Atlantic and we're chatting on a constellation that didn't exist before SpaceX.

Wonderful and we go now to the future. That is the future is conceived not by the

United States nor even by our European allies but by two men, two autocrats,

that's a technical term, one is Vladimir Putin is elected for the fifth term for president of the Russian Federation,

and the other is the general secretary of the Communist Party, she Jin Ping, meeting together in

Beijing and making a 7,000 word statement, one sentence devoted to nuclear

war, there should never be a nuclear war, they said reminding us they have nuclear

arsenals.

At the same time, I look upon this as a stable

Eurasian alliance if that is accurate. Once upon a time Mao Tseitung early in the life of the People's Republic of China, was beckoned to Moscow by Joseph Stalin.

Stalin kept him waiting, waiting, waiting, and a dacha outside of Moscow.

Mao resented enormously Stalin to the rest of his life, bitter.

Stalin, I told Gregory, I don't know whether Stalin had normal feelings or not, but he certainly was cruel to Mao, who could have been or meant to be an ally.

They were both at the time Marxists, committed Marxists. However however all these decades later the student of Mao

she Jen ping is welcoming the junior partner of Vladimir Putin who certainly is aware of the Russian history, having commented about

the loss of the Soviet Empire.

Gregory, what do you make of this alliance that they've announced?

They used to call it no limits. Now they've

issued a statement about their vision using the word democracy. Is this a

...