Captain Jim Fennell

It doesn't seem to have any fear of the United States, maybe that they had.

when Deng was in power.

And so now you see red tourism.

It's big in China.

People going to see the places where the Chinese Communist Party in their history of the establishment of the PRC.

That's a big item.

He's pushing it across all fronts.

And it seems to be taking on a kind of a populist patriotism inside China.

not as the ancient Chinese civilization per se, but he's even embraced religion in certain areas and brought religion back in that's something that Mao didn't do during the Cultural Revolution.

So he's very adept at this.

Well, that's been the greatest strategic failure of the Biden administration.

It was this rabid obsession with calling Trump an agent of Russia.

And we drove, in a way, China or Russia into China's arms.

Now, there's a natural economic

relationship there.

But there is a larger, and we've talked, I mean, people talk about this as historic animosity or distrust between China and Russia.

So the idea that we could get Putin and Russia to kind of pull back a bit from China and not be so reliant upon them, if we could do that, that would be great.

But I think China is very well

entrenched themselves economically, militarily into the Russian sphere.

And I don't see it happening right now.