All right, Alexander, let's talk about the meeting between Trump and she, which is the first meeting between both leaders of Trump's second term as president.

Your thoughts, Alexander, on the results of the meeting. Just some quick background, an hour

and a half was how long the meeting lasted. No press conference, nothing like that. Trump has

issued some statements about the meeting. And we have had a readout from the Chinese foreign ministry,

which went over some of the things that were agreed on. My quick take on this Alexander is a one

year kicking of the can down the road?

That's the way it looks.

I mean, everything is going to be talked about in a year later.

But still, some significant issues were discussed during this meeting.

One issue was not discussed, which is Taiwan.

I thought that was interesting as well.

And, of course, a lot of people, I don't know if you want to touch on this,

Alexander, a lot of people are talking about the body language. Trump shaking hands with Xi and talking a lot while Xi was very, very stoic, I guess you would say. Also the positioning of Xi on the right side of Trump positions him as the host. So there are a lot

of people that are talking about the dynamics of the two leaders as they met. Trump was actually

standing at the podium waiting for Xi. So it does look as if Xi was the more dominant of the two from a body

language optics protocol standpoint. But anyway, you may want to touch on that as well. Your thoughts.

Well, first of all, I absolutely agree with you. This is kicking the can down the road by another year.

It basically dials us back

to the agreement that was made by the US and China in Madrid at the beginning of September.

That was supposed to have a tariff pause, which was going to be renewed regularly, the anticipation was that there would then

be negotiations, trade negotiations leading to a formal trade deal. Nothing like that happened.

And in fact, as we discussed in a program which we did a couple of about a week ago, two weeks

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