I'm John Batch with my mentor and Frank Gregory Copley, and we're looking at a book

that Gregory published some years ago, sovereignty friend Gregory Copley, and we're looking at a book that Gregory

published some years ago, sovereignty in the 21st century, and the crisis for identity,

cultures, nation, states, and civilizations on the basis of four major authorities here in the

early 21st century, Russia, China, the U.S. and the EU.

China, the People's Republic of China,

the utopian brand applies maybe within 50 feet of Xi Jinping. Otherwise, we're looking at a state

that has doubts about its future, doubts about its past. Does China understand or recognize or yearn for a sense of sovereignty, Gregory? We have a few

minutes. Well, yes, the People's Republic of China, which is basically a subset of the Communist

Party of China, and that, by the way, is not a nation-state, but it does yearn for identity and

legitimacy and recognition as a sovereign state, as though it were ancient China. It belittles and

decries ancient China as being inefficient, unfair, outdated and the like, but it still wants that legitimacy which ancient China traditionally had.

And it wants to defend or conserve its present borders.

And those present borders are not really necessarily what China was or is or will be.

China's borders have changed dramatically over more than 2,000 years

and now include, for example, Tibet, Xinjiang and the like in the Mongolia.

So it's incorporating many, many ethnic and linguistic groups.

And it hasn't really, in recent times,

sought to expand its territory.

It has talked about reclaiming territories

which it thought were historically Chinese,

which are now largely the Russian Far East, including Gladivostok and the

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