i in the fall there is going to be the communist party congress. i oh, he is seeking a longer and more powerful term. and basically china staked its reputation on its handling of co 19 and i think he's in too deep. so i'm not expecting a significant shift, but maybe we'll see a slight one because you know, the truth is, is that covered is nearly as infectious as measles. the new ama cram. so variance where you put somebody in a room for an hour. i'm with measles and 8 people will walk out with it. that's what they're facing. and over the long term, i'm millions. countless millions of people in china are going to get covered and they need a strategy to prevent people from being hospitalized in dying. and that really means affective vaccines and high penetration, particularly among the elderly and the vulnerable. and that's not happening in china. from your perspective, why is china insisting on holding on to this 0 coven policy? is it, as you suggested before, simply a matter of staking so much as far as reputation on trying to appear that this stra

soon after the holidays there will be a congress of the communist party of china. his congress. well, after these holidays, of course, yes parliamentary limbs fall. this will be a truly unique event and very important for the whole world, especially for the chinese leaders today, while preparing for this, something is not yet finished. well, that's where, i think, there will be a lot to keep the political initiatives go further and further further. so it must be borne in mind that osian. e, with whom we did not have a very successful conversation, here are our western partners. completely different signals are being sent. curiously, i know an indonesian, who is now in amsterdam on may 9, sent a chic congratulations , spit something like this, hold on to russia no one will overcome. the whole of indonesia is with you. she has never sent me. although we have known each other for 20 years or so, in principle, this is not just some person from the street, this is a person who was serious and now the top of the indonesian society is incorporated and we receive the same s

the worst possible option, and despite the fact that in the fall there will also be a congress of the communist partyich , in january, the brush is trying to run for a third life term. that is, there is a lot of uncertainty, and the food crisis created the russian-ukrainian war, ukraine feeds 400 million people in one way or another , including africa, for example, which i don’t know if it will eat in the near future, it won’t happen, that is, the investor doesn’t know anything now. and now, in principle, everyone the whole sweatshirt means that the political leader and the scientists and the intellectual leaders must very quickly form the images of the new world order, now few people understand what they will be, well, on the other hand, all these world organizations that you are talking about, as they say, were created for after the second world war bearing in mind that there won't be any more world wars, well, there aren't any yet, we know we are in such a transitional stage, whether they will be or not and this will no longer be a story about ukraine, of course, because ukraine here will simply b

stump will remain at the party congress, contrary to the tradition of recent decades, as the general secretary of the communist of china. therefore, he will remain the chairman of the chinese people's republics and that line is more active, but the international arena as a whole and a more active line on political, and not just economic cooperation with russia, which his team has occupied, will continue and will intensify in china there are other trends and other moods. they will not be dominant. so when the decision was made on the special operation. i think this factor was also taken into account. so who miscalculated, we will soon find out so in the usa you were in a hurry. e. claim so to speak, that what putin has calculated. it's you and the boys. you calculated. yes? putin did not miscalculate anything, he did not miscalculate in any way, because he is completely fair. in our country, any loser knows who is behind the back of the kiev regime. there is generally such a mode on its own. in 3 months you will all go to the front. and you will command people older than yourself. and the outcome of our war wit

the day will remain at the party congress, contrary to the tradition of recent decades, the general secretary of the communistherefore, he will remain the chairman of the people's republic of china and that line is more active in the international arena in general and a more active line on political, and not just economic cooperation with russia which his team occupied will be continue and intensify china has other trends and other moods. they will not be dominant. so when the decision was made on the special operation. i think this factor was also taken into account. so who miscalculated, we will soon find out so everything charles, you were in a hurry. eh? e to say so to say that what putin has calculated. it's you and the boys. they will read them all. you read. yes, putin did n’t miscalculate anything, he didn’t miscalculate anything, because zamedergievich is absolutely right. in our country, any loser knows who is behind kievsky mode. there is generally such a mode of self- advertising and we will return. no, in russia this look that now they are growing up and the boys can’t remember the memory of thos

slow growth is always frightening when it comes to the chinese communist party had to guess the 20th party congress coming up work he is going to want to focus on stability and consolidating his power. i also think he wants to pursue an economic and medical coercion strategy. nor do i think his military forces ready. i do think that f after five years of trying the absorption into the borg strategy, we could be facing a situation where, this is a legacy issue, i want to take care of this on my watch, i am going to reach for this because it will get harder for me in the future as the u.s. faces more capability. we have got to be focused on that, not just china as a long-term challenge, but china in the near midterm as well. >> that exact argument you just made about a legacy issue, there are a lot of people think that is one of the reasons vladimir putin is in ukraine right now. congressman, i asked the same question to you. i wonder what your overall perspective is on this of whether there is enough focus in the current nbs, budget on russia and ukraine given the focus on china? >> i think we have

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slow growth is always very frightening for the chinese communist party in terms of maintaining their order and control. he has the 20th party congress coming up where he will want to focus on stability and consolidating his power. i also think he wants to pursue a political and economic coercion strategy vis-a-vis taiwan. the use of force is a last resort. nor do i think his military force is ready for that. if after five years of trying the star trek absorption into the borg strategy does not work, we could be facing a situation where he says this is a legacy issue, i want to take care of this on my watch, i'm going to reach for use of force because it will only get harder for me in the future as the u.s. fields more and more capability. i think the timeframe could be sooner or later, but we have to be focused on that, not just china as a long-term challenge but china in the midterm as well. >> that exact argument you just made about a legacy issue in dealing with it right now, there a lot of people who think that is why that amir boudin has gone into you great -- that is why vladimir putin has gone into ukraine right now. congress

and the other side there were there were congress people from california and and state of washington who we now know we're probably members the communist party. and wait, aren't they all comments that and and they of course ran as democrats and they didn't talk about being communists at the time. but so when you had someone who was a sort of proto-fascist on one hand, and maybe actually remember the communist party and both the democratic party, that's a pretty hard coalition. but again democrats only do what they could do because the republican party had been so discreted by the great depression the hoovervilles and everything else and also because you know americans were appeal to as a people, you know by roosevelt and by the leading democrats my joke about communism even in fdr's day with these decidedly centrist programs. i mean the social security act is a centrist program really progressive tax. that's great. it's but he faced allegations of socialism communism, you know destroy our capitalist. so the new deal the idea is of left they eventually do of steam which happens with movements right? it's hard to maintain as an expert on polit

slow growth is always very frightening for the chinese communist party in terms of maintaining their order and control. he has the 20th party congress coming up where he will want to focus on stability and consolidating his power. i also think he wants to pursue a political and economic coercion strategy vis-a-vis taiwan. the use of force is a last resort. nor do i think his military force is ready for that. if after five years of trying the star trek absorption into the borg strategy does not work, we could be facing a situation where he says this is a legacy issue, i want to take care of this on my watch, i'm going to reach for use of force because it will only get harder for me in the future as the u.s. fields more and more capability. i think the timeframe could be sooner or later, but we have to be focused on that, not just china as a long-term challenge but china in the midterm as well. >> that exact argument you just made about a legacy issue in dealing with it right now, there a lot of people who think that is why that amir boudin has gone into you great -- that is why vladimir putin has gone into ukraine right now. congress

communist party are in any way looking to replace xi jinping. and i certainly don't think a stepdown if that were to happen would be happening any time before the party congressn the fall but i will say, melissa, that xi jinping has been enshrined in the party documents as the core. so when i hear some of these statements about stepping down, what's important for the viewers to understand is there's a secondary question and that is stepping down from what xi jinping has three positions, the president of china, the general secretary of the communist party and the chairman of the central military commission and it's those latter two that is the extreme power, not being the president of china and i don't see him stepping down from either of those, certainly not general secretary and chairman of the military commission so i think xi is well on his way to a third term. but there will be some pushback in terms of his policies that has caused this discontent and caused this anger. that is real. >> i was going to ask you just along those lines, the fact that we were discussing the possibility of this really underscores the notion that the discontkcontent is real and