Captain Jim Fennell

And he knows that he can't get there if the people under him are corrupt and not following through with pure party loyalty.

Well, that's a great question.

And I would say that the party itself, if it's in this kind of turmoil to the extent that they remove Xi...

You know, it'll be very hard for us to predict exactly who will replace him.

There are speculations that this General Zhang,

vice minister or vice chair of the Central Military Commission, if he's the one that's really moving the chess pieces around and he's a strong proponent of the PLA and all these PLA activities that we've seen ramp up, especially towards Taiwan in the last three years, if he's the degenerator of all this, then we should be standing by for some very serious potential for an invasion of Taiwan.

On the other hand, there's the factions that may say, hey, we've gone too far.

The economy is

is being destroyed and we need to pull back our, you know, pull back a bit in terms of our aggressiveness and let's keep our economy going and let's try to repair the damage that Xi did economically.

So it's kind of two pronged, I would say, those are the two major prongs on where it could go.

Again, I still believe that Xi's in power and that to me suggests that there's a longer continuity between Mao all the way to Xi

That is, they've all had the same agenda, which is to restore, in their minds, China to this global Marxist world power.

The other leaders couldn't do it because they didn't have the economy, they didn't have the military, Hu, Zhang, and Deng didn't have it.

And Mao didn't have it, but he was so, you know, he was kind of a different kind of a person.

So Xi's adopted Mao's kind of aggressiveness, but he now has the tools to do it.

So again, it's really a matter of what will we see in this next week?

I think we'll get a really clear signal.

I mean, if he's not...

if he's not mentioned or talked about, or he has diminished in any way, I don't think the party can, I don't think he, if he, if he's under struggle for power, he's not going to accept some kind of partial agreement.

He's either going to say I'm the leader or I'm not.