trading system? Both actually, because you know, the immediate thing that springs to mind with respect to the second is the fact that one of the things Xi Jinping changed was the timeline for unification of the mainland with Taiwan. The Chinese Communist Party had put kind of a deadline of 2049 and a lot of people and sort of the status quo seem to be working and a lot of people had really forgotten about this issue. But Xi, in everything that he said and most importantly, done, our assessment is that he wants to be the leader who achieves this unification and the history books as the leader to do so. And so that changed the timeline and, you know, at the most given his age, you could see that being 2035. So then that's where Ukraine played such a key role, because of course, if China is to invade Taiwan as part of this unification effort, because the carrot and stick approach that they have had over the years is really not hasn't worked. They haven't completely abandoned as yet, but (11/40)
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