It's Wednesday, September 3rd, 2025.

I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Statecraft is often stagecraft.

And you need to keep that in mind today as you look at some of the photographs, some of the

video that will be coming out of the big meeting in China hosted by Xi Jinping. It is an exercise

of state craft, and it's an exercise in trying to reshape world affairs and world alignments.

For that reason, intelligent, conservative Christians need to really have an

interest in this. Because when you look at this kind of stagecraft as state craft, a large message,

a huge message is being sent. And what Xi Jinping, the leader of the Communist Party in China,

this is the leader of China, what signal he wants to send, the stagecraft he wants you to see, is of a new alignment of nations in which you have Russia with President Vladimir Putin.

You have India with Prime Minister Nehendra Modi.

And you have those three leaders, India, 1.3 at least billion people,

China, a billion people, roughly. Russia, of course, major nuclear power. What Xi Jinping

wants to show is a realignment. It's a realignment to and a realignment from, from alignment

with the United States, particularly on the part of India.

That's the key player here, but also a closer relationship he wants to insinuate.

He wants to signal a much stronger relationship between India and Russia.

But by putting India and Russia on the same stage, what the Chinese leader intends to do is to show a massive

global realignment at the expense of the United States of America and to the advantage of

China. This kind of stagecraft is intended to show where the real power lies. And the big signal here

is that power is shifting from the United States

to China. And that means if you want to be a friend of a nation, you want to be the friend of China.

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