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Thank you Tom. This was the most cohesive and far thinking report on China I've read in quite a while. China has always played the long game, going back centuries. Russia has always been a partner in one way or another, since the establised "Silk Road". They sure were during Vietnam. We better keep a close eye on Modi/India. He's playing his own long game. The only possible problem I see for China is what the climate may do there this year. They were hit very hard last growing season by drought and crops failed badly. They also lost an untold population to Covid. Xi has some problems on his own home front, but silence is one of their greatest advantages. It's a commununist regime and country. Mao taught them all well.