This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Batson with Professor H.J.

Macinder in National Relations, Seven Capital, Seven Points of View, we go to Beijing, which right now is said to be in distress economically.

At the same time it is expressing its intentions to recover Taiwan.

At the same time, the General Secretary is headed to San Francisco to sit with the president of the United States.

At the same time, we're told the president is going to ask Shijin Ping for his voice to Tehran, for Tehran to tell its agents that would be

Hezbollah, the Houthis, Hamas, the militias of Iraq, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, to tell them to back off.

Professor, Beijing's point of view, and I would say the word delusion is appropriate at this point.

Well, that is certainly the right word.

The question is who is diluted most?

I would say that when we consider the situation in China, which I will do in just a second,

it will be clear that they're diluted, but I think that the pursuit of China by the United States all of these cabinet

secretaries and they're all going to China

uh... yelp mrs yellen has been meeting with, what's his name,

with one of the top Chinese leaders,

their foreign minister was all over the place.

This, we are, we're not even being hoodwinked. We're engaged in a kind of self-deception and

wishful thinking, which is very bad. Now what you said, you said that China is

said to be bankrupt. they're out of money there.

For the first time, the amount of the amount of

capital that was being exported from China this last month was greater than

the amount of incoming investment. Now a few years ago incoming investment was

ten times outgoing investment. That was when China was sort of in business and things seemed to be going well.

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