Firstly, some really kind of capricious signs over Personnel decisions, the removal of the foreign minister after only being in office a few months, the removal of the minister of defense last year, Li Xiangfu, after, I think literally a few weeks as the minister of defense, end of last year, removal of a number of PLA people, in the Rocket Force area. [...] And I think the way in which particularly the Trump presidency, the first one, kind of questioned the commitment of America to, You know, global leadership role and and may well, you know, kinda come back to that if Trump is reelected later this year, I think has completely thrown China. [...] And then, of course, there was that, There was that article in Nikkei a couple of months ago about, you know, all the party elders that gave him a stern talking to, You know, which I don't think too many people pull a lot of stock in, but I think there's the sense, like, in in a place that you know, in a party that big, With a lot of ambitious people looking at the the trend lines, there's a lot o. [...] And I I I guess, You know, China is the great kind of potential has never really been fulfilled culturally, I suppose, that, you know, When you look at Chinese New Year or Lunar New Year as some people call it now, that's a festival of, I suppose, partly of of Chinese culture, you know, and everywhere you go, in in Europe, you know, London, Sydney, San Francisco, you know, these big festivals. [...] I mean, people are Interested and attracted by the cuisine, by the, you know, kind of the kung fu, by all of this sort of paraphernalia, and yet, The image of China as a country because of its political system, continues to be challenging and confronting.
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