so, welcome to china, eric. eric: thank you. anthony: first time to the mainland? eric: yes, and i m very surprised already about, uh, what i see in the city here. i was expecting, like, uh, kind of a gigantic chinatown that we have in new york. anthony: that s some racist shit right there, i m telling you. eric: no, very surprising the streets, they re very clean, just, it almost looks like a european city. anthony: except for the air. the air quality, i mean, maybe you ve noticed that haze eric: yeah, it s like a anthony: that s not, that s not good. eric: but i m definitely out of my comfort zone. anthony: really? eric: for sure, yeah. anthony: oh, good. well, i m hungry, you hungry? eric: yeah. anthony: noodles, that s where you should start around here. chengdu is famous for little spots like this. don don. named after a much-beloved chengdu noodle snack. oh, yeah. now we re talking. eric: i ve never been good anthony: really? eric: with c
with chopsticks. they say they re doing that here in lviv because chinese tourism surged 40% before covid-19. part of the reason, well, china is now ukraine s number one trading partner. china bought 51% of ukraine s iron ore in 2020. exports from ukraine to china doubled during the pandemic and some even quadrupled. lviv polytech nick university here tells me they have students at all degree levels. i mention that because more than half the foreign ph.d. students here are from china. china has food and raw materials on the line here. that s what the maers. maybe that s why china s sim in kyiv is open. unlike america s. on the one hand, they have no love lost for what it represents. remember when china brutally suppressed it. and putin and xi flouting their
of the american country. it s more than what we saw in the aftermath of hurricane katrina. that said, there is such a broader impact of what s going on right now, not just what s happening at the pumps. because oil, and specifically petroleum products, jose, are at the very underpinning of so many aspects of our livelihoods, down to how much it costs to transport goods, flying to see loved ones, even what s made in plastics or certain products. all of this comes back to petroleum. so i was out yesterday talking to some local business owners, specifically in the restaurant and food business, to find out what kind of changes they ve seen. coke prices, coca-cola, i m talking about, have gone up 30 or 40%, according to one food truck owner. in addition to things like fish and meat, tacos, all of this, on the up, chopsticks. i spoke with one entrepreneur who explained to me he s trying to digest this and not pass on the cost to consumers, but it s going to be tough. it s going to have som