This is the Friends of Mr. Debating Society. I'm John Bachelorette, Professor H. J. McInder, six capital, six points of view,

Ukraine conflict,

European War,

global North War, world war. We go to Beijing, where the pandemic is out of control. The healthcare in the cities have collapsed.

The peak of the deaths are later in January. We're told,

but the pandemic is now spread to the countryside as factories and workplaces empty for the Chinese New Year. We're told there's no transparency here. There's no conviction of what I'm giving you.

It's just what you can read in the media covering China from the outside.

We're also told that Xi Jinping is made provocative speeches warning people

away from collusion with foreign businesses.

Collusion with private enterprise. What is he talking about is his own language right now?

China is in deep turmoil and

If it were another country, I would say unstable, but because there's no transparency, I can't judge and the surveillance state and the

brutality of the people that suggests that they can strut they can whether this no matter how bad it gets. However,

I add one twist here to the

the the the situation with the

pandemic the economy is

contracting and

the guess of what it will do in 23 and 24 is being lowered all the time at the same time their law layoffs

leading to protests routine protests that are reported by video

by people's handheld video getting out of China. I don't think this is routine. So

Professor Xi Jinping

during the holidays on a video call with Vladimir Putin

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