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offer ends December 3rd, 2023. Open to UK and N.I. Guardian. I'm John Bachelors with Mary Kistel who was many years in Hong Kong, the free city of Hong Kong before its fall to the Chinese Communist Party and was then a senior

advisor to the Secretary of State during a period of great tension with China.

The payoff right now is does the tension continue because she's an executive vice president

Stevens Incorporated involved in the financial world observing

Shijenping the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, in about in San Francisco to meet, I believe

it's called, on the sidelines bilaterally with President Biden.

The Chinese economy is in tatters. There are no good numbers.

Mary,

She-jin-Bing makes threats when he's at home. Is he going to make threats to President

Biden or is he going to take his hat off and hold it out for a tip?

Well, in some respects, John, he doesn't have to make threats.

He sent the PLA Navy to encircle Taiwan.

He has launched cyber attacks daily on the United States, attacks our satellites daily.

I mean he's making very clear what his intentions are. In many ways he's deterring the Biden administration.

He's doing the very thing that we should be doing to them, which is demonstrating that

you know there will be consequences for activities that we don't like and offering a carrot if they do things that we do like.

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