a preliminary investigation determined a faulty power strip in the bedroom because this a deadly apartment fire by chinese authorities say they are still investigating and so far no word on the communist party leading up on their strict covid policies, arthel. arthel: but if president xi wants to maintain a level of respect on the world stage he has to know the world is watching bread christina coleman thank you, brian. bryan: gordon chang joins us now is a senior fellow at the gate stone institute. also the author of the coming collapse of china and the great u.s./china tech warbird i cannot think of anyone better to be talking about this for just help us with their decades of experience with this in perspective for our viewers based on what you know, how are extraordinary and how significant is it to see the simultaneous protest happening throughout china? lex this is extraordinary. nobody expected this. the communist party and actually its allies in the west say the