Captain Jim Fennell

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.

And that's my assessment of what we would see in the next week.

So if we see him, we're going to see this continuity towards his agenda of this global domination.

Right.

I mean, clearly as you described it, Xi is, is more red than any other, uh, a paramount leader that China's had in its history since Mao.

And, uh, he has pushed through, uh, you know, uh,

kind of a top-down control of the economy that, you know, Deng and Hu didn't have.

I mean, he has been pushing for the state-owned enterprises and the control of the economy, centralized control and the importance of these five-year plans.

And he is now in a position to where he's also in charge of the PLA and he's been in charge of the PLA and he's inclined to use the PLA much more often.

I mean, as we talk about in the military arena,