James Kynge

emerges from this looking slightly better than it does at the moment.

If the U.S.

can restore shipping in the Straits of Hormuz, the price of oil comes down.

Trump gets to sound more like a statesman on the world stage.

Then maybe the pendulum swings back again in the U.S.

favor in terms of international opinion on this action.

But at the moment, I think there's no doubt that China is making propaganda capital from this.

I am actually, you know, I really do enjoy going around the museum.

I bet you do too.

I didn't know the extent of this trend.

It seems to be the case that in China there's a new museum opening almost once every two days.

And these days there are perhaps...

you know, more than 7,000 museums and about 1.5 billion annual visits as of late 2025.

So whatever numbers you're using, this is a huge, huge trend in China.

And I've been looking at some of the eye-catching museums that there are in China.

Well, you know, some of them are fairly mainstream, like the Zugong Dinosaur Museum, which is in a southern province of China.

And the point of differentiation is that it's a museum, obviously, of dinosaur bones or fossils that are built right over the pit where the fossils were actually first found.

Going to another end of the spectrum, there is also a museum in China for mental illnesses.

It's called the Black Museum, and it has sort of immersive displays like you can sort of feel what it's like to be going through a hallucination.

And of course, there's a sex museum in China.