All right, Alexander, let's talk about the situation that is developing between Japan and China

and Xi Jinping's call to Trump, which was a very significant, significant development.

Xi Jinping actually calling the U.S. president.

It looks like Trump, at least at first, did not understand the significance of Xi Jinping actually

reaching out to him, calling him.

But it seems like now there is an understanding of the significance of this phone call.

And Japan and China over Taiwan, that's an interesting development.

What are your thoughts?

Well, it is.

I mean, what has happened is that Japan has had one of its regular changes of prime minister.

And the new prime minister, who is a woman, is somebody who is very

much on the nationalist wing of Japanese politics. And in Japan, when one talks about a nationalist

wing of politics, that often translates into an anti-China or hostile to China

or suspicious of China position.

And she has made certain comments about Japan defending Taiwan and supporting Taiwan in its

cause of protecting itself from reconquest by mainland China.

Now for the Chinese, this is absolutely unacceptable language. As far as their concern,

Taiwan is part of their country. There is no such conception of Taiwan as an

independent state. The reason Taiwan initially was separated from the Chinese motherland,

as they would say, in the first place, was because in the 19th century,

as a result of a war between China and Japan, Japan conquered it. And here is the Prime Minister

of Japan, a country which waged a massively aggressive series of wars against China in the 1890s,

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