I'm John Batchel with Elizabeth Peake, and the meeting in Beijing, the conversation between two world powers.

However, a detail that Liz writes up in her most recent column, guess what? The U.S. is leading an

AI. In fact, an invented AI, it continues to invent AI, so much invention that they're in

courts now arguing about who gets what of what, of the invention of AI, and

the U.S. is leading in energy, we're an energy superpower, and the U.S. as an economy that doesn't

get bothered by the price of gasoline. We just keep racing ahead. Okay, Liz, what did Beijing

have to offer? Well, so my take, everyone has sort of written off the summit between Xi and Trump

as a non-win for anybody. They think it was unproductive. It didn't meet expectations, et cetera,

et cetera. And my take is a little different. Started out, of course, was Xi making bellicose threats

about Taiwan. Don't get near Taiwan.

You know, we're going to, we would take that very much, very seriously. It would disrupt our

relationship, et cetera. I think that was totally a smokescreen. The United States has no

interest in getting involved in Taiwan. And I don't think that China has any interest in

taking over Taiwan. Robert Gates just came out

in the last day or two and said the same thing. China has their hands full. They're dealing with a lot

of issues inside the country. Why would they basically attack their neighbor where that neighbor

is still the source of enormous chips and other products that they want.

So I don't think that. I just think Xi had to talk to Chinese people about the fact that they

are losing geopolitically. If you think about what's happening in Venezuela, where, by the way,

China used to get a lot of its oil, in Cuba, one of its great allies in the Western Hemisphere,

in Iran where, like it or not, the Trump administration has pretty much destroyed their military

capabilities. Even Russia, their final ally is struggling. You know, there are sources now saying

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