China's Formidable Economy: The Challenge of Freedom vs. Control

Well, first of all, let's, let's directly address China. China is formidable. One point, however many billion people, you're gonna be formidable. They have a massive economy and that's formidable. However, it is again, like Russia, not built on the concepts of freedom. It's not built on the concepts of supply and demand and capitalism. It's a very top down driven approach. And with the democracy and democratization of information, and everybody's got a handheld, it's getting harder and harder to, to block information flow, especially things like starlink. So in the end, freedom will prevail. But in the meantime, we do need to be very worried about the Chinese government, not necessarily the Chinese people.