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

Leaving Europe, we're headed to East Asia.

Shijin Ping was much in the headline for his visit in San Francisco in his bilateral one-on-one with the president of the United States about what

does she need chiefly a lot of money but geopolitics came in about fentanyl, about mill-to-mill conversations.

Not, we're told officially much about Ukraine or the Middle East. We did see within days of the meeting.

Wang Yi, the Wolf Warrior first class, gathered together several Arab foreign ministers in Beijing to talk peace in the Middle

East. An unusual demonstration, China looking to appeal to the global South, good for China. At the same time, China's point of view is self-interest.

The economy is in tatters, the unemployment is very high, especially among the young people,

which is the future of the Chinese Communist

Party if it is to survive. She Jin Bing is not a sophisticated player. He does

however endorse the surveillance state that he's created. It's not now making

the money, nor is it presenting itself as an attractive place for foreign investment to go back in given the record of recent years.

Professor, you are very knowledgeable of Beijing, its pockets are turned out, it's looking for a hand up or a handout or free lunch or some

relief from the battering it's taken of economics.

Is it involved in geopolitics? Is that a genuine interest on

Beijing's part? Thank you. Well, their interest or she's interest is to stay in

power and he's holding on by his fingertips. He's holding on by

his thumbs right now and he is unwilling or unable to recognize that if he needs essentially the rumor

intelligence is he's looking for one and a half trillion dollar bailout from the United States,

which stuns me, but on the other hand, sometimes I think maybe she understands the cravenness and strange thinking of our leaders or of our

China, particularly our China people better than I do, and I'm sure that there will be

are there may well be something forthcoming in foreign affairs but how we should

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