Robert Pape

I went to Ron Paul's last Friday, April 24th.

Happy birthday.

Thank you very much.

Well, it was a great present.

I hadn't seen Ron Paul, and...

God, 15 years, some long period of time, been a long time because the issues had moved and so forth.

And now the Iran war, there was a reason to bring it back together.

Yeah.

Getting a bank.

It's really quite interesting to see what happened.

And, um, and my wife got to be there to see it all, which was really quite a, you know, it's, there are these personal things, you know, that have a,

chance to show off a little bit in front of your wife.

Yeah, what I learned is we're tracking about, I would say from the newspapers, that is Wall Street Journal, New York Times, even the business side,

probably about 10% of the real big picture of what's happening in China.

What we are doing is taking a soda straw view of what's happening, focusing on individual companies.

And I know because when I went, I wanted to visit the companies, BYD, Xiaomi, which is another electric vehicle manufacturer.

It's like the Porsche level.

and also Alibaba, also some laser advanced AI in Wuhan.

And I wanted to go visit the companies because that's what I thought I should do.

I wanted to see, and I did, I visited the companies on the shop floor.