Save 10% with my code BOBBY10 on raw, organic, grass-fed and grass-finished, freeze-dried organ meats from grassland nutrition. Link in the description box. All right, guys, welcome back to the channel. If you're new, my name is Bobby. Guys, today we're going to react to a mathematical miracle in the Quran that will blow your mind by wondrous of Islam. If you've been following this channel, you know that the Quran most certainly blew my mind. But let's see if this video will do that too. Let's have a look. Assalamu alaikum. Okay? He does not know how to read. All right. So how is he giving the Quran to people? He's speaking it. He's speaking it. So the people who believed in him those 23 years, they were with him, they did not see a book. If they thought of the Quran, you know what they thought of?   Like for them, they could not think of the Quran without thinking of the Prophet. We can do that. When we think of the Quran, sometimes we don't think of the Prophet. We just think of a book. For them, the Prophet and the message and the messenger were inseparable. The Quran comes down over 23 years. It's not been put in book form. It's not been put into a database. It hasn't been put into a search engine. Now it has. Now what the Prophet said has been put into a search engine. It's been put into a database. So you can actually do a search. How many times does the Quran say this word? You could do that. Could you do that back then? So now after 23 years of this book and centuries and centuries later, we have this book in book form. This book uses the word ad dunya. You know what ad dunya means? This world. This world. This book uses the word this world 115 times, 115 times. What word is used? Anybody know that back then? They have no idea. This book also uses al-akhira, this life ad dunya al-akhira, the next life. It uses it 115 times. This book uses the word angels 88 times, malaika 88 times. It uses the word devils 88 times. The word life occurs 145 times in the entire Quran al-hayat life. You want to take a guess what else comes in the Quran 145 times? Death. Death. Death. The word death occurs in the Quran 145. You understand the point that he's trying to get across back in the day. They only had the words of the prophet. Therefore they didn't have the whole book to look at it and to actually realize that all of those words are mirroring each other. The word good deeds. Good deeds are mentioned 167 times. As-salihat and As-sayyih are bad deeds. 167 times. The word disbelief is mentioned 17 times. Belief is mentioned 17 times. Iblis is mentioned by name 11 times. Seeking refuge from Iblis is mentioned 11 times. They said, the phrase they said occurs 332 times. And the Quran says say 332 times. How is it possible that in like 23 years of revelation he uses the word month only 12 times? Yeah. Days actually only use 365 times. That's not only. There's just a few. Just word counts. Is that humanly possible? We just think about that. Is that humanly possible? Somebody speaks for 23 years, doesn't write any of it down and these words seem to line up perfectly. All right guys and this already it. Pretty short video. Did it blow my mind? Not really, but why? Because I already watched similar videos to this one and I know about those facts. It is absolutely impressive of course that the days have been mentioned 365 times. The month is only 12 times. That good and evil is mirroring each other. That's absolutely amazing to see. But I have to say that this is not a mathematical miracle. You can see it as a miracle surely, but not really as a mathematical one. I would rather call this a rhetorical miracle and not a mathematical one. It doesn't have to do much with math other than that it contains numbers. Therefore a rhetorical miracle would fit this video much better in my opinion. Anyways guys let me know what you think in the comment section and if you like the video leave it a thumbs up. If you haven't subscribed already guys please do so and if you want to support my work on Patreon all the links are in the description box below. Thank you so much for your ongoing support. As always may God bless you all. Much love and peace.


For the sixth consecutive season, the BSU men's hockey team is appearing in the WCHA playoffs, but for the first time, the Beavers come in as the top seed after claiming the conference's regular season title. Tonight, the WCHA quarterfinals kicked off with the Beavers hosting northern Michigan. First period, no score, Beavers on the power play, but the Wildcats on, the two-on-one Brock Maschmeier fires the wrist shot, but Michael Bitzer makes the glove save and a beauty. Still no score, just over a minute into the second period, Beavers on the odd man rush, Leo Fitzgerald lights the lamp, BSU goes up one. Later, in the second BSU back on the power play, Zach Whitecloud fires the one-timer into the back of the net, two-nothing Beavers. They'd add one more, just over 12-and-a-half into the period on the Kyle Baumann quick wrist here, take the three-nothing lead, and that would be all they would need as they shut out northern Michigan, three-to-nothing Michael Bitzer with 30 saves. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland news, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


Hey guys, Realistic Gaming here. Today we're gonna be playing some Minecraft. Yes, I know Minecraft, right? So I'm gonna be like, what? Minecraft is boring. Well, guess what? Today I was just going through my channel And then I looked back at my old videos. I was like, hey, I haven't played Minecraft in such a long time And then I opened it up, right? So I opened it up and everything and then just I just remembered the old times when I would play with my friends on the playstation We would always play this game and it just reminded me of good old times and I would have fun playing this game So I'm like, hey, why not do a video today since I haven't done one in like months It's been a while and yes Oh, yeah, also because I asked you guys about two weeks ago If you guys would like me to start playing Minecraft again.   I'm still working on that. I still have Well, I'd say I'm a bit closer to actually live streaming like getting everything ready because of past streams I have been having trouble, but I feel like This friday, I'm probably gonna have everything good to go. So hopefully that'll work out with just tomorrow. Okay Okay, so you're not talking man. Let's begin with this blocks Why did I say roblox? I mean Minecraft 1000 lucky block challenge. Oh Okay, it's been such a long time. I didn't know what to do anymore Okay, so we have all these lucky blocks. Look at all this a thousand lucky blocks Oh my god Okay, so let's begin Okay, where should we start? I don't know where to start you guys. There's so many blocks out here Okay, let's go any mini mining. I'm gonna jump and do a 360 without looking and that's the first way I'll go Okay, this one. Oh, what did we get here? We got swords Nice, I guess that'll help.  That's cool Oh and a chance of sword Some diamond. I mean some armor for the horsies. I love the horsies. It's so painful when they cry though Oh, we got some potions. Nice. What kind of potions invisibility? Oh, we should get put that on Yes, okay, so we're invisible now. Oh, look at that. It's just floating armor now because of that potion of invisibility Okay, let's break this block. I'm trapped. No, let me out Oh my god, okay Okay, let's go check out the other blocks. Let's try a pink one. These are the newer ones Oh god, what?  Oh god, can we ride these things? Oh, we can No, come back your llama Give me a ride. Oh, look at that How funny is that? Okay, uh, let's go break up one of these blocks over here. Oh, what? What?  No Get out of there when I press. Oh my god. I don't even know what button I press Okay, uh, let me try to remember all the buttons. Oh god. I'm being chased by evil bunnies Okay, let's try to take them down. Oh god Oh, get away from me.  Oh, okay, so they're like two each I think we'll be able to take them all down. Oh, they're one shot with the bow and arrow Okay, nice Those bunnies chose to mess with the wrong person. Stop jumping. Oh, we got them Move llamas. I don't want to shoot you. I love llamas. I actually want to get a pet goat in your life But I feel like it would be too much to have one right to like have it at your house It'll be jumping everywhere and pooping all over the house. That would be insane I would have to have a big yard to have a bunny. I mean a goat as Oh god, what is it called the killer bunny? Oh my god Okay, let's see what else we have. Oh, that was an enchanted bow Lucky bow. I guess that's better than just having a normal one Oh, okay I'm sorry. That was a minecraft See when I play minecraft I go insane. Oh my god, we just blew up by that lucky block So much for it being lucky, right? It blew us up Okay, oh, let's get that sword. Oh my enchanted bow Let's give him some arrows. Oh, yeah, we need some food of course because then We don't want our house to go down Okay, let's wait a little let me put my let me quit my my armor real quick because I'm sure I'm gonna need it Because they spawned a lot of crazy stuff. Oh nice. We got some enchanted boots now Those just came out of nowhere. I don't know where they came from Oh, where's my sword? Okay, it's a lucky sword. I'll just use it Let's get that bow Let's get the meat Oh, what potion regeneration healing. Okay. Let's keep this healing potion night vision regeneration Okay, so we have some generation regen regen potion. So let's keep those Okay, oh Okay, what happens if we press that let's press the lever. Oh no, it's raining. Let me take the rain off So luckily, oh I didn't forget the most of the commands. Oh, no, I can't do it because I'm in that venture mode. I forgot Okay, so we press that What? Oh, what is the TNT?  Oh, yeah, this stadium is a old stadium I would use for my pokemon videos if you guys seen them before that my realistic minecraft videos I would do pokemon videos. They were pretty epic man. I would battle other trainers and stuff You know, I had a little storyline and I would do that Before I started playing normally. Oh god. There's a giant zombie Okay, should we just leave it alone? Oh, did we just shoot a creeper head at it? That was so awesome. I've never seen that before Okay, let's just leave him. He's not chasing us or anything Let's go break these other blocks. Oh Zombie horses.  Unless you're having a massive slumber party with your friends, right? Okay, let's go to the other side. I've been over here too much Okay. Oh nice some roses so we can take some roses for the llamas because I know llamas like any flower. Oh What it came from up from above From the sky. It's a it's a sign from the gods. Oh Okay, let's continue. Well, there's your problem Right, we just got a block of nether. Wait, I forgot what that's called that block. My god. I'm so bad I'm sorry. Oh, no, we're gonna get attacked by spiders Oh, this is sweet. Come on. No, we got this. Oh wait. I pressed that.  There's too many spiders. Yo, what is going on?  This is the end of me. Although I managed to escape Okay, why is it doesn't dim though?  Okay, so we managed to escape from the dark view. No Oh What That's impossible. Okay, so I set my spawn location over here Uh There's flowers over there How am I supposed to get my stuff? There's too many spiders Okay, uh game mode one I'm gonna go Mode one I'm gonna go back to a creative mode so I can get my stuff real quick Because it's not fair if I'm gonna keep dying over and over, right? I don't want you guys to be just seeing me die over and over and over because that would be horrible Because let's just collect our stuff Let's go to the other side of the map. Leave the spiders over here. All right. Let's get rid of the rain toggle down fall Uh time set to zero Time set zero Just make a day day time because I don't like the nighttime because that's when the spiders come out and fight Okay, uh Let's just equip some armor Well, I just have a helmet and boots. I guess that'll do for now Okay, here's my pickaxe my sword Okay, I got the arrow. Okay, let's continue.  Leave the poor lava alone.  Actually, I want to get rid of all the spiders so they won't mess up my video because these spiders can be very Very mean And chase you As you can see they were all attacking me. You're just a second ago That was insane. I was kind of scared actually because it was so dark Okay, that seems like the rest. Oh no, there's one more spider here What are you doing over here, huh?  Game mode zero No, go back. Okay. Nice Okay, let's go back to opening these lucky blocks. Oh nice are those apples Oh lucky potion. Let's see. Let's get the luck potion on this so we can Oh, no, we don't have a chess plate for arbor. Okay, so we can get lucky Oh, oh you throw them and they open stuff Okay, so we got a cake some arbor more arbor. Oh Sweet we got a sick horse Okay, let's get rid of all this stuff, man Okay, uh, let's see what else we get. Oh, we got two horses another cake. Yeah, I'm numb. I'm numb. I'm numb The cakes are so yummy Oh Great we threw a tnt and it blew us up. How was that? How was that a lucky potion? That's like the contrary of having luck and like blew me up, man What that made no sense. So much for luck Okay, let's go back to our death where we died Uh, where's the stuff I want? Okay, the potions are here. I want to get those again Okay, I see some armor here. Oh my oh, I see the stuff right here sword pickaxe Okay, let's just equip my stuff that I need the most important stuff Which is armor boots helmet Okay, let's get my sword here Okay Where those lucky potions? Did I pick them up? Where's my pickaxe? I need a pickaxe a stone Will the stone one work if I use it on the lucky blocks? Okay, it does work Oh Oh my god, Bob the zombie Oh, no, he has strong armor Okay, we're gonna take a while to defeat this guy because he has a lot of armor and it's enchanted too Oh my god, did they really have to make it this hard? I thought there was a blocking option. No, Bob. I'm your friend. Remember me Remember Bob we used to play hide and seek together in elementary school I'm just kidding. I don't know this guy But I like to believe he used to be a villager I'm just saying that I don't actually know the true story of Bob Stay away, Bob. I don't want to hurt you Bob that wasn't cool, bro Oh my god.  Oh white spawn boats. Okay, Bob. You want to do this? I'm just gonna break out the blocks now Oh, no, not another well. Okay more signs Oh my god piggies help me protect. It's a tower of piggies. Look at that. There's a villager on top. What? I never seen that one before that was you. My god. Bob is right out my tail But can just run away.  Oh Oh Oh, it was xp. It's scared of me man. Oh my god. There's a flying stop. No, we're stuck in here Why is there a Zombie flying on a horse? No, is he coming after me? He better not because he looks OP Because let's grab the sword Oh god, do we have a okay? We don't have a sword Oh, let's put just put this armor on even though it's not going to protect as much Oh, no, is he coming this way? Dude, he scares me. He's just like floating. Oh, no, Bob Oh my god, Bob is such a stubborn guy He just keeps coming after us man. That's not cool, bro Because let's get away from Bob and try to open with some more Of these lucky blocks. Oh, no, not this one again. No, it's gonna smash us Great. It just smashed us. Oh my god Okay I'm sorry, mr. Lamas Okay, can I get my stuff? Yes Oh, no, again. I keep getting trapped Come on. Let's get out. Oh Why Come on mine Keep getting trapped in those Not cool. Look at this flying horseman, man No, that guy's too OP. Oh my god.  Yes, I am Oh my god, right you guys. I'm gonna end my video here because it's too hectic out here. I can't even open my god Look at the flying golem What Okay, I will definitely do another one of these videos because there's so much new things that I haven't even seen anymore Right you guys. Thank you guys for watching. Thank you for the support and I'll see you guys next time


What is going on guys welcome back to the channel and I do appreciate you being here today I am back with another destiny 2 video and today I want to talk about the announcement that bungee are nerf in the menagerie chest Farm Wow, but before we go any further guys if you do enjoy the video leaving a like really does help out and if you are new Around here and enjoy daily destiny to videos be sure to subscribe Okay, so the last night within the twab bungee announced that they are nerfing the menagerie chest farm So this is what they stated chest runs when season of opulence begun We watched as players quickly discovered a bug in how the menagerie's final chest granted rewards Players began to race out of the area and then back to the chest as fast as they could you get as many rewards as Possible before sent back to orbit it felt reminiscent of when players were farming treasure keys from chests and their Sparrows leading up to the house of wolves consider this an error in your favor We haven't rushed to fix it But when we patch it on July 9th this loophole will officially close Allowing only one opening of the chest per completion until then we invite you to take advantage of this or you like grow fat with Strength so the inevitable is happening. I mean we always knew it was going to happen But in my opinion, it's a wrong decision Especially with no announcement of any changes to the way loot drops in this encounter in my opinion The menagerie is too much of an activity for one single loot drop It's just absolutely 100% pointless to run through all which can take ages If you don't complete an encounter to actually get a single piece of loot And what's the point offering us so many runes if we're never going to get to actually be able to use them? I mean I've got stacks of almost hundreds of individual runes and they're just going to build up being absolutely pointless And what about the heroic version the heroic version in my opinion was such a disappointment Yes, it is an argues burden catalyst drop from there Yes, you get one masterworked weapon per week and there's a chance of swords dropping But it's quite difficult at the moment and will continue on being difficult for a long period of time until light level increases So what's the point all of that struggle for crappy loot if you ain't gonna be able to farm that chest at the end and bungee All right, it does feel reminiscent But it feels reminiscent to us as players as Guardians as farming places like Omnigul for the grasp of Malak, which although we know was super repetitive It was worthwhile sitting there for hours doing that sort of thing doing the menagerie playing the menagerie Knowing I'll have about four or five chances of getting a decent individual role on our weapon was worth my time Naturally running the menagerie in my opinion them nerf in this without Substituting other ways of earning loot from this encounter from this activity.  It's just in my opinion I think it's just too much of an activity too much time for one single piece of loot from that chest I appreciate the fact that they given us to the 9th of July to farm the crap out of this and trust me people That's what I'm going to be doing because I still need that perfect role in rental My problem is I can't get none the ruins of access. I'm just gonna farm farm farm away But yeah, this in my opinion is definitely a bad move Especially if they don't introduce new means of earning loot from the menagerie the whole encounter For a single piece of the random gear. It just is not worth it Because you think of the fact of how long does it take to run it? Let's say 20 25 minutes within that 25 minutes running the chest at the end We'll take an extra three or four minutes whatever so say 30 minutes in total within the 30 minutes You can get probably five pieces of gear from farming the chest when they patch this crap That will then turn into two and a half hours for five pieces of the gear Which will still be random and that's just from the standard menagerie not even the heroic in my opinion You don't get enough back for what you're going to be putting into it So hopefully when you do announce new means of earning loot and like I said, it's quite simple from every encounter After the first part allow us to use our chalice I mean every encounter starts by you activating it It gives us plenty of time to put ruins in our chalice and even more incentive Maybe how about the main bus of the menagerie standard and heroic drops a single car when you complete it That gives people even more reason to play. I mean cause n is hard to get now Considering the gunsmiths offers them a daily with bounties But even so it still gives people reason to actually play the menagerie and like I said all of them encounters Just for a single piece of random gear. This ain't worth it. Well, that's just my opinion people Let me know yours down below in that comment section. I mean it was inevitable. It was going to happen We all knew it was a bug.  No more chest farming within the menagerie Wow, but guys on that note. I am out. Let me know your opinion on this down below in that comment Section if you enjoyed the video leaving a like really does have out and hopefully guys. I will see you on that next one


Think Tech Hawaii. Civil engagement lives here. The word of the day is Russell Liu, a Hawaii attorney practicing and teaching in Beijing. He joins us by Zoom from Beijing. And he looks great. Let's take a flash. Oh, there's Russell. Russell, how are you in your favorite coffee shop in Beijing? I'm Great Jay Nihao. It's 10 a.m. now. We're live in Beijing, and we're in the Heidian District in Beijing, China. You look terrific. Anyway, so I wanted to talk with you about this very provocative title you made for the show today. This is, of course, Think Tech Asia. We do this with you every week or two. And the title of the show is America on the Wrong Road to Making America Great Again. And the tagline, my favorite part, is one road, wrong turn, Russell, that is so creative and provocative. But tell us, what do you mean? What are you getting at? What is this about? What's going on here? Well, it's very interesting, Jay. China has a polish now, one road, one belt. So this is a converse. This is America's road. One road. Remember, one road. There's only one road. You can't move in it. And it's going the wrong way. It took the wrong turn. Wrong turn. It got off on the back roads. So that's what we were going to talk about today, Jay. Why do I feel you're referring to none other than Donald J. Trump and his policy and the policy of this administration? Yes, it's a very interesting time. As an American, it is my daily duty to open the Internet and to read the latest. And that's the big talk, even among the Americans or the expats here. What is he doing today? What did he do last night? Where is this going to go? We're on this one big road, all of us. And I think we took a wrong turn. Well, you know, I just came back from Australia and I asked people as a regular matter what they thought about what was happening in the United States. And one guy summed it up pretty well. He said, I am so sorry for you people. I think that's a sentiment with a lot of people who are not Americans, especially. I know a lot of Europeans in the European community here. And they always come up to me and joke and say, are you coming to the party? I said, what party? And they then tell me, well, we're coming to the party. It's for your president. It's the party, you know? So we can commiserate with you. We're in this together. That's the word of the day, commiseration. So OK, let's talk about the relative policies as they are emerging in the—what do we call it, the administrations on the one hand of Xi Jinping in China, now president for life, and I'd like to talk to you about that, and the administration here at Donald Trump over the past year and change, and how they differ and how they relate to each other and why you say one road wrong turn, referring to the road in the United States. Well, Jay, I take this approach because it's interesting how the policy of the U.S. is headed by one man, and how everybody on that road, I think, are missing what's happening. I think that the big theme here, we talked the last week, the last show, about the tariff on the steel industry. So we're taking this path where the president is making good in his promise of going back and making America great again. But his strategy is, well, we're going to rebuild these industries that have died out, such as the steel industry. So we put a 25% tariff on imported steel, and so we're building an industry that has changed because of computerization and so forth, and we're talking about industry with very few workers, and so we're taking this approach that we're going to go back and rebuild these industries. And the question is, how does this back up against where the world is going, where we have technology, where it's a new economy, and you have to be on that road. So that's a different road. The road that looks and is the future using high technology, we're there, we're continuing the road. And I see it in China because in China, I carry a very few little cash, as you know, I carry my smartphone. I use my WeChat. I buy my cup of coffee, which I have here, using my smartphone, using WeChat. I go to the grocery store, I buy groceries using WeChat. And it's a great way, it's the future, it's the technology we hear. But when I go back to the US, we're still hung up in an old world. And we're going back even further to the old economy, a labor economy. When everybody around us, around the world, it's no longer a labor economy. It's a knowledge technology innovation economy. Yeah. And what did I see recently? You know, one would believe that the United States was a manufacturing country. It's not. It provides services. Most workers in this country provide services, not manufactured goods. That has been taken over by other places in the world, not only China. In fact, China is giving manufacturing up to some extent itself. It's farming out and delegating out, manufacturing to other countries in Asia. What I find interesting is that we're still living in this kind of dream of returning to, you know, America as a manufacturing country. It's not. And it's not going to be either. That's the remarkable thing. So here you have the United States folding in on itself, becoming isolationist. Isolation is never a good policy. And you have China opening up. And actually, you know, as far as Xi Jinping is concerned, this is a good break for him to find Donald Trump, you know, going isolationist and leaving the world to him, to Xi Jinping to open up and exploit. Now, exploit is the wrong word, but to find opportunities. And he is finding opportunities. And China is finding opportunities. So even if you assume it's a zero-sum game, which I don't think it really is, you find China is developing in the vacuum that Donald Trump has left. And the question I put to you and I put it to other guests in our show on the same general topic is, so if you have an administration like this in the United States folding up on, you know, on world influence and abusing and criticizing and sending negative tweets to our allies, our allied countries who have been our allies for years and hundreds of years sometimes, that's damaging our international reputation, tarnishing our brand, so to speak, the piece about that this morning in the newspaper. And otherwise, you know, damaging our opportunities, damaging our prospects in the world, in the global world, how quickly can you repair that damage, if at all? You know, so Xi Jinping is making inroads. You know, there's a momentum, don't you think? There's a momentum in fall. He's not going to stop. He's going to, you know, the more opportunity he sees, the more he will seize. And the more opportunity we lose, the more likely we won't be able to get it back because Xi Jinping and others will have seized it. So my view, and I like your view, is that this damage to our brand and our global reputation, it may not be permanent, but it is long term and it is not easily, you know, reversible. Well, Jay, I think you raised some really good points here. I think it's a long term damage. And I think it goes beyond maybe just the president. It goes beyond because if you look what happens in the U.S. and our Congress, they're fighting all the common partisan politics, but they don't give leadership. They don't lead the country. They don't come out with policies to help people to earn an extra dollar due to live a better life. I've seen very different in China for the last 15 years. You know, in China, about 30, 35, 40 years ago, they had a new policy where they started having their children as a core requirement. They must learn English every year. So they learned a second language. They knew that even back then for a long term that they had to build capacity to realize that the business world outside of China, even through that time when it was closed borders, they knew that they had to integrate. The knowledge comes outside. They had to get that knowledge. So when the internet opened up, they could read English. And fast forward, when they started to do business abroad, unlike the Japanese who are very limited and speak mostly Japanese, the Chinese can speak English. They can read and write English. And as you know, I teach law school here. Everything is seamless. I speak in English. The kids read cases that are in the US law, textbooks. They're up the curve. And again, what scares me for most Americans and my fellow Americans is that you're not doing anything about it. The leadership in the country is not helping to transition to what is the real world and that's the knowledge economy, innovation. So we're going on this one road right now. And that road is going back. We've gone off the road. We're on a road that is broken, it's paved. But that road will not bring us anywhere. That road will lead us down nowhere. And again, so I think there's a big divergence. We've taken two different roads. China has gone one way, the US has gone another road. Well, I think we've been doing this for some time and it didn't begin with Trump. I remember they used to joke about the members of Congress how only a small fraction of them had passports. They didn't travel. Travel is not only broadening. It's necessary. You can't appreciate the world unless you get around a little and talk to people from other cultures and so forth. So it's really going on for a while now that the US has been shutting itself in. Now it's accelerated, of course. And this does damage to our own, you know, we're shooting ourselves in the foot in this way. But what I find most interesting and we really need to talk about it is the immigration of Chinese over the past, what, a couple of decades anyway. I mean, I, quite remarkable how many Chinese are in this country and doing well. I remember going back to my old neighborhood, which is in Queens, New York. And there was a Chinese restaurant there that was as big as anything I've seen, even when I'm with you in China. It was huge. And then a Chinese supermarket, you know, everything Chinese, all Chinese foods, huge as big as anything I ever saw in China. So what you have is, you know, a substantial immigration of Chinese nationals to the United States, going to school, taking out permanent residents, whatever, and doing very well, you know, participating in the economy, building their cultural, the cultural islands, if you want, all across the country. And that's part of this global process of diversity. And you find it everywhere. I found it in Australia where I recently visited. And you find it in Europe, although it hasn't really settled down in Europe and people are not particularly happy with it. But the fact is, diversity comes from transportation. It comes from softening borders. Diversity is ultimately the destiny of the world. No question about it. With diversity comes, in my view, better thinking, better relationships, better economies, all that. So what I want to ask you about is whether this migration from China to the United States is somehow threatened by the Trump administration, who seems to change his mind, but mostly he's into white supremacy. And whether that immigration into the United States is threatened, whether it will be reversed or diminished, and what the effect of that will be on the economy and the diversity of the country going forward. Well, Jay, I think you reached out to some really very important key points here. It's sort of like a national will. What Trump has done is he's brought up these people for many years who kept quiet, silent, who've come out in Charlottesville, who've come out and are expressing viewpoints that maybe is a greater problem in America. And so Trump, what he's doing now, I think, he's turning back the clock. We're going to be a society that does not want immigration. We don't want foreigners to come to the U.S. And the question is, who is a U.S. citizen? I think the country is built upon diversity. People from different nationalities, from different ethnic groups, who've contributed to a society that's supposed to be equal. And along the way is, if we take a look at back of the years, the Chinese came to the U.S. late 1800s and built a railroad and in Hawaii to build a sugar plantation. And then at that time, there are anti-Chinese policies. 1898, the anti-immigration policies get some Chinese. The Chinese Exclusion Act, lest we forget. Yes, we can't forget that. And then fast forward, we had in the 50s, 60s, influx of Taiwanese who came to America as students. Lot stayed, lot, some returned, but they helped bring a lot of engineering skills, a lot of technical skills. And today, it's the Chinese. It's no secret that, for example, one of the big industries is artificial intelligence. And you're talking about eight percent of the workers are from China. These are students who stuck along in the U.S., who are contributing to an American economy. There's a lot of great things happening because these kids come to the U.S. study, their masters are PhDs, and fine jobs settle in the American dream. But we're seeing a change now with this policy now, where the U.S. is flip-flopping. They're making it anti-Chinese to some extent. They're targeting Chinese. There was a 10-year visa now, Trump is considering to eliminate that. Also, the EB-5, the quotas for Chinese, that's used up. So you won't get that kind of money, not for a while. But again, the contributions are tremendous in the science field, in the high-tech deal. Well, I think if a Chinese immigrant comes to the United States, goes to school, excels in school on his own merits, his own effort for sure, then he gets into business and makes a good living in business. Who would begrudge him that? I don't understand it at all. And he stays here. As you said, he participates in the United States economy. All of that is really good for us. And he's not, you know, he may be competing with other people as to how well you do in school, but so do we all. That's the way of the world. There are some people believe that because he's in school doing well, it takes something out of their rice bowl. But that's not really true at all. It's not a zero-sum game. Yeah, go ahead. I think we've got to really be cognizant of what's happening on a global scale. The big, huge tech companies, e-commerce, Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, all these companies, for example, are listed in the US. They bring money to the economy. And they're attracting talent. And now there's a reversal because many Chinese in the US who are working in these industries are telling you that because of Trump policies, because of the way things are going, we don't feel at home. We don't feel at home. So there's a major push for them. There's recruiters that actually go out and recruit these skilled technology people. The pay is getting better in China. The opportunities are getting better. Again, so they're going to come back and really cement and accelerate China's policy of moving towards the number one leader in artificial intelligence and technology. We're going to be behind the game because of this anti-immigration, there's this kind of feeling you're not welcome here. Not two hours ago, Russell, we had a show with Pete McGinnis-Marco, the School of Ocean Earth Science and Technology, the Hawaiian Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, who's in Houston right now at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. And one of the things that was remarkable about that conference is that the preliminary part of it was called China in Space. And China has entered into the science of space and exploring space to the point of sending missions to Mars, to the moon already done, and Mars to come. And what's interesting about it is that China is joining the international science community at a very rapid rate and participating shoulder to shoulder with the scientists in that area around the world and at this conference in Houston. So what you have is an equality, if you will, in science, which you have is a very express ambition by China to be in science, to be among the world leaders. Why would we, the United States, send Chinese scientists away? Why would we discriminate against them? That puts us at a disadvantage. Because where will they go? And then I want to ask you about this, where will they go? Many of them would go back to China because China is offering them incentives. Xi Jinping is no slouch. He's trying to get them to come back home with their American education. Why would we do that? Why would he want that to happen? Jay, you raised some really very interesting observations. And I've been in China for 15 years. 15, 10 years ago, I would see the president of all the major universities in the U.S. and the governor, for example, Wisconsin, Minnesota, all these states. Why? Because these universities would attract a lot of Chinese students.  They were in the technical programs. And one of the things that I think people forget to realize is that these people bring a lot of the core competencies that America has lost out on. If you go to Google, you go to Silicon Valley, a lot of workers are foreign workers. They're not Americans because you can't find them in the American system. Well, Russell, I think we're going to take a short break while we reconnect with Russell Liu. He's in Beijing. He's an American lawyer practicing and teaching in Beijing. We'll take a short break to reconnect and we'll be right back. I'm going to the game and it's going to be great. Early arriving for a little tailgate. I usually drink but won't be drinking today because I'm the designated driver and that's okay. It's nice to be the guy that keeps his friends in line, keeps them from drinking too much so we can have a great time. A little responsibility can go a long way because it's all about having fun on game day. I'm the guy you want to be. I'm the guy, say good morning. I'm the guy that says, let's go. Welcome to Sister Power. I'm your host, Sharon Thomas Yarbrough, where we motivate, educate and power and inspire all women. We are live here every other Thursday at 4 p.m. and we welcome you to join us here at Sister Power. Aloha and thank you. Okay, we're back. We're live. We're in contact again with Russell Liu, American lawyer, Hawaii lawyer, practicing and teaching in Beijing, joining us by Zoom. Russell, you want to continue the conversation about the incentives that Xi Jinping and the Chinese government are offering people. For example, if you wanted to be, you Russell, American citizen, if you wanted to become a Chinese permanent resident or Chinese citizen, would you have the possibility, the right to do that? Yes, a new policy effect of February 1. The China government has a new policy to attract ethnic Chinese, overseas Chinese, as they would call it, back to China. Many have skills, talents, bring entrepreneurial skills as well as bring in knowledge back to China. So the new program started February 1. And it applies to Mandarin or of former Chinese citizens. And it also applies to foreign-born Chinese like me, if I can prove that I have an ancestor that was a Chinese citizen, which means I presumably think I would go to the state of Hawaii vital statistics office, I would get the certificate of my grandfather. And I would also, I have his records from the US government as to his entry into the country. And it shows where he came from. I believe that that and my birth certificate is showing the state of Hawaii birth certificate says my ethnicity Chinese. So I think I would take that back and I could get maybe a five-year residency permit. Okay, would you have to give up your American citizenship if you took a five-year residency? No, you wouldn't give up your American citizenship. Well, that's pretty interesting. So are people doing this? You have any information about Americans, Chinese Americans in the United States who are taking advantage of this kind of program going back to China and trying their luck there? And if so, what are they doing when they get there? What is the government offering them in a way of economic incentives if they take permanent residence? Well, I think that's great for American company that needs to get residence in China that maybe needs somebody to be the bridge and to be in China because the hardest part is getting the permanent residency. I think that's a great bridge. Second of all, I think it's great for somebody who does a global business. For example, if I am a mediator arbitrator, I arbitrator disputes between Chinese and U.S. companies. I need to be back in the U.S. to do arbitration or I need to be out of the country, but I can still be based in China and I can still do my work there. So I think it opens up opportunities. But I think this is really, this new policy, Lisa, is really to bring back what they call the Chinese a highway. These are called the sea turtles. Sea turtles, because these are the Chinese citizens that went across the ocean and the turtle laid eggs in another place. And it has brought it into America, where they're in Silicon Valley. They're living the American dream. But you know what? When they pick up the paper, they read about these things with China, the U.S., the trade war, then they look around themselves and say, oh, the Chinese food here in Palo Alto is hot or not tasty. Let me think about China.  You may have a race in America, but you always will be Chinese. You always will be Chinese, but we welcome you back. So that has been the approach of the government. But I think with it comes the economic incentive because they are also doing something new. All the big companies like Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent that are listed overseas, for example, you know how successful Alibaba was, the largest IPO in U.S. history. And last year, it went up $495 billion. The stock shot up. The investors are great. They're happy. Billions there. I thought you said billion. Billion. Billion. I thought that's what I thought you said. Billion. Billion dollars. Several hundred billion dollars. Now imagine if you had that money raised in China and you had a listing, if Alibaba could list in China a secondary list. Imagine how much money that would generate at the capital of money markets would stay in China. So, and that money doesn't have to go overseas. It would be in China. So what they're doing is they're setting up a new policy or new law. They're looking to where they're going to allow these companies to do a secondary list in China. And with the easing of restrictions, they're also trying to bring back these companies because that will advance and feel their whole goal of this going on this road to technology. Whereas the U.S., we're going to put it in the steel industry. We're going to slap tariffs on everybody in the U.S. And we're going to keep it American only. The Chinese are saying, well, no, we're going to go on this technology road. We took this turn. You guys could go in that turn. We're in this turn. And we're going to have lots of money to fuel this economy.  It's rejecting smart and, you know, studious citizens and not valuing them, not keeping, not taking steps to keep them here. I remember I told you before about a story in the New York Times about an Indian doctor from India who went to medical school in this country and he was doing, you know, medical practice in a hospital that serviced to disadvantage somewhere in the south. And there was an attack on another Indian not too far away from his hometown there. And the other Indian was killed, I think. And he and his wife, who had lived in the United States for many decades. So we can't tolerate this.  We're leaving. We're not only leaving our town and the hospital. We're not only leaving our careers in the United States. We're leaving the United States. And they left. And I think that's a sad story, because think of the brain power. We lost that one individual, one family, stable, responsible, productive achievers in the United States economy.  And the result is that we are losing brain power. Brain drain, call it. You know, that's what we're talking about, the international brain drain. And we created ourselves. We are creating, right now, on a racial, if not racist basis. And China is getting the benefit, and other places, too, getting the benefit of that. So what you have is the flow of intellectual pursuit from one country to another. Which one do you think makes out in that trade? Which one do you think makes it better suited for the future? Which one will have the better economy in 10 years? I mean, that's the ridiculous wrong turn here. That in 10 years or 20, we will not have that talent. And we will not be as well suited to run a country and an economy and do the right thing. And we will be second class.  Yes, we're doing business with China right now. Walmart, you know, buys and sells some 90% of its stuff in and from and with China. But over time, you know, that's not going to be the case. We're going to be second class in that trade, in that economy. And I hope you'll still talk to me after you become a Chinese citizen. I hope you'll still say hi and get on our think tech show. Jay, I guess if I go back to the U.S., I can now apply to be a job in a factory. Wouldn't that be great? Give up your law practice, become a factory worker. We can make shoes and umbrellas for the world. Maybe that's what we want to do. And I say that because, you know, I think the whole perception of the U.S. is this, the world has changed around you. You know, and China is like this, I have a saying that goes like this, with the herd of 1.3 billion people moving, you feel the wind no matter what. You feel the wind. You always feel the wind. And so if they're moving in one direction, they've got to be doing something right and pay attention to it. And so I say that because even getting back to locally in Hawaii, I think even Hawaii, Donald Trump is good for Hawaii because he is allowing Hawaii to choose its destiny. We know that you can't depend on the old game, federal funding, pork barrel legislation. Use your destiny. Do we choose to be a labor economy or do we choose to be a knowledge economy? Okay, if we choose to be a knowledge economy where all the action and the money is, how do we get there? Well, we need to build capacity. We need knowledge. We need education. Bringing all these Chinese students that didn't go to MIT. There's tons of smart technical people. Get them into UH. Our kids in UH will learn to be multicultural, global, and they will go up the curve faster. I'm convinced a lot of these Chinese students are much more up the curve when you talk about math, science, bring that. Then you can attract federal money for applied research. Then these Chinese students will give the brain power to attract global foreign direct investment to Hawaii. I think you've got it, Russell. Aside from Xi Jinping benefiting by this isolation policy, somehow Hawaii is also benefiting by it because we understand diversity and we understand diversity, hopefully, in economics. I'd like to believe more of that in the future. So anyway, it's a very interesting track. It's a very interesting thread to watch. It's one road, wrong turn. We'll have to watch it on both sides. We'll have to watch it on Xi Jinping's side and on Donald Trump's side. We'll have to keep on talking. Thank you so much, Russell, for this enlightening conversation. We'll see you in a couple of weeks. Thank you, Jay, and we'll see you in a couple of weeks.