Eye on his coronation in fall. it is a tight rope back for the chinese. they cannot be happy. on the short list of people unhappy with 2022 you would have to put xi jinping. this is not the way he wanted the year to play out. no, it has been a miserable year, a miserable year for china, a miserable year for xi. of course, most of his problems are self-inflicted, whether you look at his zero tolerance approach to coughed. whether you look at him trying to straddle the fence when it comes to a tie ran cal march through ukraine. one bad decision after another put china in a terrible position, with the economy growing at a slower rate than quite sometime, mika, not good news at all. again, you have china, they re going to have to make a decision. yeah. are they with the russians