This is Music 103, KMOX FM, St. Louis. Security Council will be up to debate the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. This is Doug Polling reporting on the CBS Radio Network. A broad coalition of Asian and Western nations will join with the United States in asking the Council to debate the Soviet military campaign. Pakistan is taking the lead. That country feels especially vulnerable because the Russians have accused the Pakistanis of aiding anti-communist Afghan guerrillas. Tonight more than 20 signatories endorse the request that the Security Council hold an urgent meeting. The request is expected to be formally presented tomorrow. President Carter has recalled U.S. Ambassador Thomas Watson from Moscow for consultation. And the White House says the United States will retaliate against the Soviets for what has turned this serious threat to world peace. Military action by the U.S. has been ruled out, but officials say the President decided on a number of actions during a lengthy meeting with his advisors today. Senate Republican Leader Howard Baker today said that because of the Russian incursion into Afghanistan, they taught his dead and the Soviets killed it. Baker urged President Carter to withdraw the SALT treaty from Senate consideration. Similar remarks came from another GOP presidential candidate, Ronald Reagan, who also chanted President Carter. I'm gratified to see that he has last just announced that he's discovered what almost everyone else in America has always known, and that is that some men in the Kremlin can't be trusted. My one concern is, does he really think this will be relatedly, or is he looking for a place to stay now to avoid a legislative defeat in the Senate? Will this give him an excuse to withdraw SALT II? Because of what he's supposed to have discovered about the Russians in that case, he won't risk that defeat. Whichever way, we're all better off without SALT II, at least we can be grateful for that. In Afghanistan, Soviet troops fought fierce battles today with Muslim rebels northwest of the capital, Kabul. Pentagon sources say the Russians now have as many as 35,000 troops in Afghanistan, plus a large number of jet fighters, tanks, and other heavy equipment. More news in a moment. The bell system brings you miss Annie Wynette. Please don't reach out and text someone. Please don't call up and text someone. Please don't reach out and text someone. Wherever you are, you'll never think far. You're waiting to hear your death. I make a special tucker man and tell him you love him phone call that makes being away from home a lot less lonely.  Please don't call up and text someone. The telephone is your heartline. 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Anything about the ocean and the seashore, which many claim is beneficial to a person's health and general sense of well-being. The sea air acts as a tonic instead, reviving a person, filling body and mind with good health. With this foreknowledge, Melissa, age 14 and her mother in her 50s, left the tragedy of the father's death in the hotel fire behind them and moved to a sea resort on the west coast, hoping to find some happiness. But life plays tricks. What seems to be wrong is often right, and what appears to be normal is often wicked. Melissa, without Giles, quietly pursues her life. But in some eyes, it's not a normal life, not a life in which everything falls exactly into place in an easily recognizable and understandable way. And so, while a small sea coast town might, on the surface, appear to be a haven of peace and security, the very opposite under certain circumstances might turn out to be true. I'll be right there.  My credentials, ma'am. Oh, I don't have my glasses. Lieutenant Holly Brown, I'm from the city attorney's office. Are you Mrs. Baker? Yes. Well, it's regarding your daughter, Melissa. May I come in? Oh, Melissa. Come in, come in. Tell me what this is about. Thank you. Okay, sit down first. Oh, but not here. Melissa's taking a nap. Our boy says, travel up the stairway. In here, please. Mm-hmm. Didn't go to bed till five this morning. I hate to hear work such long hours. Sit down.  Coffee? Something cold? No, thank you, ma'am. This is quite a library. Melissa spends most of her time here. That all I ever do in here is dust. Do you mind if we sit by the window? I find watching the ocean so restful. Mm-hmm. Thank you. Uh, that was a police badge you showed me. Yes, Mrs. Baker. I'm an investigator with the city attorney's office. I understand. What's that got to do with Melissa? Well, she's part of it, of course, but the complaint is directed at you, Mrs. Baker. After all, Melissa is a minor. I see. I see. Yes, I think I know why you're here. But go on. You purchased this house? Yes. So I can assume you are a permanent resident? Yes. You're not here for vacation? No. I'm advised that you moved into the house in June, too. Melissa is not enrolled in any private school. Of course not. Melissa is 14 years old. 14? Well, our public school is open September the 15th. Melissa is in the Washington, Junior High District. Now, Mrs. Baker, this is the middle of January, and I am advised that as of this day... Melissa has not been enrolled in school. You're absolutely right. Melissa is not attending Washington, Junior High or any other school. Credited private tutor then? Would you settle for Albert Einstein or Charles Dickens? Maybe William Butler Yates or Richard Wagner? And we must not overlook Friedrich Nietzsche or Thomas Albert Edison. No, we won't overlook them, Mrs. Baker. She will be exposed to all of them the day she starts school. You do not understand. There is nothing your schools can offer, Melissa. Well, I'm not here to discuss the merits of our school system. I'm not singling out our town, Lieutenant, any school in any part of the world. You are in our town, Mrs. Baker, and we do not ignore the law. I know the law. So please don't bother to quote it. This is not a case involving truancy. No, the charge will be much stronger, Mrs. Baker. You failed to register, Melissa. I know, I know. Lieutenant, listen to me. Better yet, you can listen to Melissa. I hear you're coming downstairs. Melissa, I'm in the library. What kind of it? Nearly five. Come in, Melissa. There's a gentleman here who wants to meet you. Lieutenant Brown, this is my daughter, Melissa. I'm pleased to meet you. Thank you. Melissa, you have been influenced by many great educators. I know you have your favorite. And I'm sure Mr. Brown would be interested. Well, I'd have to start with John Dewey. He taught me that knowledge is not based upon a tuition-pick and saved idea. He may be conscious that thought as though it matters a dynamic process, that logic is a developing discipline, and that philosophy is not an accumulation of abstractions originating in pure objectivity that has a social force. Mr. Dewey wanted me to have confidence, and he introduced me to Mr. Emerson. I'm sure you're familiar with Mr. Emerson's mind. If a man plans himself indomitably on his instance, the world will come round to him. But there is the other side of the coin. Mr. Emerson keeps reminding me that genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. From Mr. Gandhi, I learned self-discipline. Mr. Churchill always reminds me that a fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change his subject. I learn not not of Mr. Einstein, but he also made me aware that the most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It's the source of all true art and science. Uh, it is very impressive, to read so much at your age. Oh, we talked too. I think I learned more from the discussions. Who does she talk to, Mrs. Baker? William Shakespeare, for one. I haven't talked to him in months. He's really writing his play. I see. I don't think Lieutenant Brown understands Melissa, and he is getting very uncomfortable. It's not a question of understanding, Mrs. Baker.  Mr. Einstein, we have a confating reason. He's very kind and patient with me. We don't always meet here. He likes to walk. Sit in Mr. Beethoven's. There's no need to be frightened, Lieutenant Brown. I'm not the least. You certainly get that impression. Well, I'll have to turn in a report. Are you sure you want it to remain this way? Are you suggesting that my daughter and I, because of your report, should be dishonest, make a false statement, like, Melissa does not go to school because she's anemic? Now, you know that is not what I intended. There is a very simple solution, Lieutenant Brown.  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I want you to meet two of my friends. This is Joan Felton and Nora Minkin. Hi. I'm very pleased to meet you. Ellen has told us so much about you. Was that a true story you told Ellen yesterday? Ethan's film, wasn't it, Melissa? Oh, it was a novel about you before. But why don't we sit down here? The grass is dry. I know what's in that bag. I hope. That's how I bribe her. Friends' fries and ketchup. Who did you talk to last night, Ellen? Tom Dewey. I'll get to cook, but don't fry anything until I get back. Dig in. Hi, Ellen. We're not having to go to school. No, I don't know. Staying is next week.  Oh, there's Tom. Tom, over here. I'm coming. Melissa, you're not worried about the hearing. I wouldn't ask you, but you came down. I'm not down. Just thoughtful. I'm sure whatever test they lay on you will be a breeze. They'll have to give you a stack of diplomas. Then you can forget it. I'm not concerned. I don't know what makes me lose. I need some help, Melissa. They were out of touch. What did you get? Not orange. Oh, no. OK, how can I help you, Tom? Well, Mr. Real.  He gives you a list of questions that take forever to find out the answer. And none of it is really that important. Now, listen to this. What was Volcair's real name? Did he ever tell you? No, he never told me it was by Marie Aless. Um, who on the pencil? We want to hear a story. Well, one more question. Don Quijote was a published in one part or two. Cervantes told me it was in two parts. The first in 1605 and the second in 1615. Tell us about Ethan Foam. I'd like to hear it again if you don't mind. I don't mind. It's a tragic story. It's also very romantic and beautiful. Thank you very much. You're welcome. And take the switchboard. I have someone at the counter. Can I help you? Yes, ma'am. I'm Lieutenant Holly Brown. I have an appointment with David Kahn. Room 12-2, right down that hall. Could you tell me what the Kahn status is? He is one of the assistant examiners. I don't know what further help I could be. I felt that preliminary hearing was of necessity. The vice principal of the high school, Grover Minkin, has a reputation for being well-versed in the arts and the humanities. Now, if Melissa Baker has this knowledge, then how deep is it? Or better yet, if you have a photographic mind, read fast, he's overchapped ahead. This is what Minkin will pursue. I'm sure you can be a help to him. I'm afraid that's not my department. All we ask is your cooperation. You spent time with the girl. You can be helpful. I only saw her once. It wasn't for very long. I'll be candid, Lieutenant. Your report left a great deal to be desired. For example, here. Melissa Baker stated that Einstein did not always sit in her library. There were times when he preferred to walk, etc., etc. Well, he'd only need me to read the rest back to him. But there is nothing here to indicate her personality fault, her abnormal behavior. My job is to establish the evidence. Has the law been broken? In this case, there was no doubt. They even admitted it. The rest is up to the prosecutor's side. I know the due process of law, Lieutenant Brown. The city attorney's office has asked us to make a determination. That is why you are here. I don't know what more I can tell you. How did she act? The girl? Yeah. She did make me feel strange. How? Once I had the facts, all I wanted to do was get out of there. No, no, no, no. I mean, what did she do? That was strange. That was the way she looked at me and talked. In what way? She sounded so sincere. Here's Radio Theatre. We'll continue after this message from your local station. This is Gary Danielson, quarterback with the Detroit Lions. And I have a message from the National Easter Seals Sports Council. We're a group of athletes who have teamed up to help the Easter Seals Society in its work with people who have disabilities. Like other members of the Sports Council, I'm an Easter Seals volunteer in my community. I spend time with handicapped kids, and I talk with their parents. So I know firsthand how important Easter Seals services are in helping disabled people get back into the mainstream of life. When you visit an Easter Seals center, you'll see people of all ages. Some born with handicaps, some injured in accidents, and others disabled by illness. Regardless of the cause, they're getting a kind of rehabilitation service they need to help them achieve independent lifestyle. That's why I'm with Easter Seals all the way. If you'd like to get involved in this important program, get in touch with your local Easter Seals Society. We'll welcome your support. Easter Seals. A great way to help handicapped people. I'm giving it up. Giving up what? Smoking. Congratulations. I'm doing it for you and the kids. For me and the kids? But we don't smoke. You're wrong. I saw this lung association message. You know what? We smokers are making you non-smokers. Smokers just like us. Whatever are you talking about? I'm talking about secondhand smoking. The lung association says I'm doing myself in, as if I didn't know, but my smoke is trouble for everybody in my neighborhood. Do you realize every puff I smoke, I'm puffing out a smoke screen, a carbon monoxide, nicotine, benzopyrine to say nothing or hydrocarbon. He's done positively poisonous. I feel poisonous. I'm quitting. For me, darling. Yes. And for me, darling, if I want to be loved, your lung association says the smoker who quits quits for more than one person. He's clearing the air for everybody. You might say it's a matter of love and breath. Four o'clock in the afternoon, the small meeting room in the school board was filled with capacity. This hearing is in order. My name is David Carr. You are, I'm sure, familiar with Principal Grover Menken. First, I want to address Grace Baker and her daughter, Melissa. Our purpose is to be informal. The members here are part of the county school system. Dr. Town is a psychologist. Helen Crone is on the board of the Delta Education. Dr. Rand is a physicist on leave from the university. Mr. Menken will conduct the hearing. Mr. Menken? I will address my questions to Melissa. Now, first, Melissa, Einstein's theory of relativity differed from Newton's. Can you tell me why? Yes. Mr. Einstein explained it to me one night. The paper you're referring to was translated in 1920, and it was called Relativity for Special and General Theory. Now, that concept challenged physicists and mathematicians throughout the world to see Newton's followers were convinced that motion and rest were absolutely measurable. Mr. Einstein demonstrated that motion and rest are relative, measured differently by different observers. They proceeded to demolish the even more sacred absolutism of length, mass, and time. The three fundamental measures on which all other quantities depend. Explain to me Einstein's principle of equivalence. Oh, that principle asserts that there's no basic difference between the forces of gravity and acceleration. Well, tell me about Einstein. What does he look like? He must be very old by now. Well, what happens is that you immediately sense the vibrance in him. You're aware that he's constantly stimulated by new concepts. But when you sit across from him, how does he appear? I feel him. Feel him? Yes. Then you don't see him? I feel his presence in the room. But he talks to you? Yes. If I sat in the room with you, could I hear him? I don't know. My mother can't hear him, but I do. Doesn't that seem odd? No. I hear him from within. Within? Myself. Mr. Mangan, to her ratio, it sounds it's ever holding in my heart absentee from politically a while and in this harsh world, draw thy breath in pain to tell my story. Yes, Mr. Khan. Please call my wife. Tell her I'm meeting privately with the staff, and I'll be home late. Thank you. Oh, Mr. Orkid and the city attorney's office called. He wants to know when he can expect to hear from you. Yeah. If he calls back, tell him no earlier than the end of the week. Ah, excuse the interruption. I turn back to you, Helen. I think it is ridiculous to dwell on her unbelievable wealth of knowledge. She covered factory, and it's her France, Thorsten-Weblin, Sunyat-Sen, Matisse and Debussy, like she lived with them intimately. The question I pose is, did she? It's upsetting I admit, Helen, but we have to keep this forum on a realistic level. If she is unreal, how do you account for it? Dr. Towne is a psychologist. What do you say, Dr. Towne? A psychic phenomenon, perhaps. We can turn to presidents, other cases of this kind. There is no way to completely prove it scientifically. You would have to first start by accepting the concept. Mr. Rand? Well, I don't have a mathematical equation for it. Mr. Macon? I have no doubts about Melissa Baker. Very obvious to me. What we witnessed here today is sorcery. Melissa is the devil's spawn. She's a damned spirit. The devil has sent her here to destroy us. I don't know about the devil, Mr. Macon, but I will admit the supernatural is very perverse and alien to me. Do not underestimate the devil. He comes in many devious ways. Really, Mr. Macon? I'm not enough of the abnormal. There is, in this girl, the spirit of evil. I think we're all tired. Do we have to find a reason today? No. Why is an explanation necessary before Friday? I would like to spend some time with this girl. It's not safe. That's not the way to deal with satanic power. I understand how you feel, Mr. Macon. There's no question of the... Well, the girl is eerie. She taxes my sense of credibility. She's so sure of herself. Almost smug. I thought myself becoming unsympathetic to her. I don't think it was smugness. I suspect she was frightened in spite of her show of positiveness, heretical. What is opposition? We're complicating matters. The question before us is quite simple. Is Grace Baker justified in not sending her daughter, Melissa Baker, to school? We cannot divorce ourselves from the source of that girl's knowledge. Can't we? That's a good point. That's not an issue. But it is. It is precisely the issue. I don't recall that we ever stopped teaching the difference between hell and heaven. I would refer to it as the positive and the negative. Oh, semantic. There are no semantics for profanity. I need a drink. I've got to make some statement tomorrow. I was supposed to meet my son for dinner. All right. I ask you to review the date. The girl was absolutely phenomenal. Wait a minute. I'm referring to her scope of knowledge. Not one of us can deny it. How do you cope with someone who tells you Da Vinci comes to the house to teach her art? Is that any concern of ours? We are repeating ourselves. Well, all of you know where I stand. Is that the way you want it in the report? Definitely. Helen? I'm confused. All right. Wouldn't make us look good. Put it this way. I see no need for her to enroll in school. But I recommend that she undergo psychiatric examination. That is based on the fact that her behavior is not normal. Very good. Dr. Town. I am going to pass. On what ground? Psychiatric examination takes time. You must have some thoughts. I'll settle right now for something right off the top of your head. I get the impression, Dr. Town, you are avoiding the issue. You're the psychologist. I don't believe you sat through that hearing today without drawing some impressions. There are explanations for Melissa's behavior if you believe in what is called paranormal. And if you accept the paranormal, it becomes normal. It is very possible that time and space do not apply to normal. Da Vinci's time is coexisting with Melissa's time. Past, present, and the future exist simultaneously. It is possible Melissa has a gift to communicate on that level. That is a lot of fancy nonsense. Mr.  You have no doubt in your mind that Satan has been able to possess Melissa. Then you must believe Satan has been able to transgress time and space. Who's denying the power of the devil? No more than you would deny the power of God or the existence of heaven. So I have to believe, Mr. Mankin, that you accept an afterlife in another sphere. Dr.  Now don't you leave me by the hand. You make your point. I am presenting another way to explain Melissa. I'm talking about the concept that we continue our lives after we leave this sphere. We are in the same universe, but we exist differently. Can we communicate between the two spheres? Melissa, believe so. That kind of talk to me is profane. I could follow another line. If we are going to try and solve Melissa, we cannot measure her with a dogmatic ruler. I don't want a list of theories. I want an opinion. I don't think any of us is prepared for the judgment you were asking. I want a conclusive report. You want an advancement. What did you say? You heard me. Give him a statement. I want to get out of here. I hear you. All right. Here is what you can quote. Don't deny, Melissa Baker. Try to understand her. I'll accept it. Where do you stand? Are you directing that question to me? Very much so. I merely the interlocutor.  That does not satisfy me. I'll take a position. You can count on it. The meeting is over. I want written reports before 12 o'clock on Friday. Good night. Do you have to keep hitting that glass with your fork? I wanted to play with me. I wanted to discuss with the whole family. Did you hear your father? Nora, now will you please? Your father is trying to talk to you. Dad, I thought you were just waiting for Ben. Well, he had to pick up Lou and Ethel. What about George? He'll be here. He's bringing the Thorntons with him. Everyone must be made aware. And I'm convinced after that hearing today all we can count on for help are our friends. It's so hard for me to believe. I've met Melissa. You are now going to tell me that she's very kind and sweet. Oh, she is. Nora, you know as well as I do. Evilness can sometimes be very deceptive. When I first heard about her, I figured she was some kind of freak. But when you're with her, she just doesn't come off that way. That's exactly what I'm talking about. Well, couldn't we just ignore her? Not go near her? That is not the way. I just wish it was someone besides Melissa. A man. A woman just turning. What did she say? I can't before the sun sets. I want to talk to you. Let's begin with just you and me. I hope no, our relationship is not just a genetic one. I hope not. I know you tell the truth. I know you use your talent positively. You're thoughtful, generous in your desire to share. But those people out there don't know you like I do. The only thing they care to know is that I'm different. And they hate me for it. I'm satanic. I'm a freak. I'm a carnival performer with a photographic mind. I'm not Einstein or Voltaire, but I understand these people. Great men who come to you will tell you the same thing. They have told me. I'm getting ahead of you. That's not important. We'll only talk about what's important. But first we must put it in its proper perspective. You with me? Yeah. We are not going to identify you as someone who is different. Is that clear? Yes.  But that means you're different. Let's do it another way. Okay, I'm listening. There's a prescription for everything. No one has your prescription. Okay. Okay, intellectually I know you're right. But why can't I handle it emotionally? Don't focus on yourself. Focus on them. What prompts their reaction? The panel that conducted the examination is a really good example. I felt each one of them was stuck inside their own dogmatic point of view.  Say their programs, Melissa, think of them as computers.  Do you wonder that me sometimes? Of course. But I take pride in having an open mind. 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Only those working close on the case of an investigation. Hiding will not solve the problem. Well, a stand at this time might be foolish. We are not going to start running. I'm sure your daughter has a solution. That was unkind, Officer. Yes, I apologize. I saw this talk. I'm sorry. It's okay. Well, how do you feel about just going away for a few days? Now, we've got a lead. I don't think it'll take long. No, I agree with my mother. Well, if that's your decision, we'll have to go along with it. I understand your position, but I don't think you're being fair to your neighbors. I'll be fine and be sympathetic. You'll be under 24 hours' surveillance. Phones will be monitored. Oh, really? So much for so little. Excuse me. I'm going upstairs. What is that truck across the street? It's a TV crew. Someone from the department will be close by. All you have to do is pick up the receiver. I'm Al Mapes K-B-E-X. We'd like to take an interview. Well, you'll have to talk to Mrs. Baker. I'll see you later. Mrs. Baker, could we speak with your daughter? I'll ask her. The officer, could we get a statement? Maybe later. Yeah, Joe, it's going to get crowded in here. Well, you're set up on the lawn. Hey, you finished? Oh, I just got here. Where's the girl? She's on her way. Yeah, she looks younger than 14. Melissa, I'm Al Mapes K-B-E-X, new at Tom Mack from the Daily. Hello. Look, I decided this is one way to prove I'm not possessed. Would you mind moving out on the lawn? Would you join us? Certainly. Maybe I should pull back my hair so they can see I have no horns. Makes. I'm going to make the afternoon addition. No problem. That's fine, Melissa. All right, your roller, please. Melissa, I understand you've been given 24 hours to leave town. Are you frightened? Yes. What do you think this is all based on? Ignorance.  I don't believe it. He cited a date.  My husband died in a hotel fire in Morris Town, New Jersey. Did you leave Morris Town because you were under pressure, the kind you're receiving here? No. I was always treated kindly here. Well, why did you choose our town? We wanted to live by the ocean. How would you explain yourself, Melissa? I consider myself very fortunate. Only because I know I'll be able to make a contribution so we can all live together without fear. Excuse me, Miss. Will you tell Mr. Menken that Lieutenant Brown is here? I can see you, Lieutenant. Yeah. I've only got a few minutes. I don't mind getting to the point.  Now, what I think doesn't matter personally. She's a wacko as far as I can see. Spaced out, but, well, that's her problem. It's yours, too. I'm not a religious man, so we'll keep me out of it. I'll pray for you. I have a job to do. The view of the department is that you were compounding the problem with your statements. Is that against the law? Insighting a riot is against the law. Just what are you trying to tell me, Lieutenant? Well, so the attitude of the department. Believe me, we don't deny your point of view. Hmm. I'll only keep it to myself. We don't want to make it a public issue. That's not the way to deal with her. The next thing will be a flock of nuts over there siding in with her. And for Mayor. Who's standing out on the porch? Waiting for you. I thought you'd never get home. What's wrong? It's Tom and Nora. They didn't come home. It's not that late. They took their sleeping bags with them. Oh? Did they say where they were going? That's what I'm trying to tell you. Oh, here comes Mr. Karn. He drove over there to see what's going on. Oh, where? Nobody's making any sense today. It's a mess. Tom and Nora? Yes. They said they weren't coming back. You can't believe what's going on over there. My kids wouldn't even come out to talk to me. I'll slow down. Tell me exactly what's happened. The kids. There must be over a hundred of them. Mostly from this neighborhood. Now they're coming from all over. Moving to that girl's house with their sleeping bags and gear. She is working a spell. They said they won't leave until they're sure the girl is safe. Tell Tom and Nora I'm here. Nora! I want you to come home with me, Tom. Oh, Nora. Nora, did you hear me? We're not leaving. What do you want, Dad? The first thing I want is for you two to get out of here. Will you promise to leave Melissa alone?  I wasn't her idea, Dad.  She even tried to talk us out of it. All right. The spell. She's making it. Can you feel under the spell, Nora? No. I'm going back inside. Nora, you come back here. You've heard her, Dad. I've heard Nora. I feel the same way. Oh, my God. What has this girl done to you? It's not Melissa, Dad. Why don't you come here? I'm giving you an order. You get Nora and come home. There's no devil inside. Nothing evil. The way you're acting tells me differently. I'm disappointed in you, Dad. In me? I haven't turned my back on my fate. Am I the one that is so weak as to become a grumbling pawn? I'm disappointed in you because you didn't take time to try to know Melissa. She has blinded you. It's not going to harm anyone. Not even you, Dad. We know her. We find her a friend. Now, Tom, now listen to me. Divide and conquer. That's how they work. They're very clever. Can't you see that working now? It's the opposite of that. We wanted to become one of us. Tom. I'm afraid for you. I'm afraid. That's why I've got to try to reason with you.  It's not much worse back where she's dragging you. Why do you fear her? Tell me one thing she has done. Give me one example. You understand this power she practices. Is it a power? Yes. And satanic. But you have no proof of it. Maybe you can explain to me then what it is. Well, I don't know what it is. But I know it's not evil. Maybe one day I will understand it. Come home, Tom. The port is too late. Dad, I want to ask you a question. Will you answer it honestly? I always do. 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In this video we provide the solution to question number 14, which is going to be a problem about vectors. We have a 16 pound weight that's lying on a sit-up bench at the gym. If the bench is inclined at an angle of 15 degrees, there are three forces acting on this weight as shown in the diagram provided here. So if we kind of think of the picture to help us out here, we have this incline and then there's this weight that's sitting on it, like so. So because of the incline here, the normal force is going to be acting at an angle, gravity pulls it down, and then there's friction that's holding it up as well. And so that's why these three forces come into play. Let's just look at the simplified diagram. Our three forces, of course, are the normal force N, which is perpendicular to the bench it's sitting on. There's the frictional force F, which is due, again, to friction. So it doesn't just slide off, and then W is the weight of the weight itself. If the weight does not move, then the sum of the three vectors is zero. That is, it's in a state of static equilibrium. Let's find the magnitude of N and the magnitude of F in this situation. We know that the weight has a magnitude of 16 pounds because that's given to us. So then we have to decide how to solve this. We have two approaches we could solve on this one. We could switch everything to algebraic form and then just kind of work through there. It's kind of nice, but there's some conversion that has to go on there. We could also set up a triangle. The advantage here is that since the normal force is perpendicular to the frictional force, because the frictional force will go in the direction of the bench, the normal force will be perpendicular to the bench, this would set up to form a right triangle, and right triangle trigonometry is not so bad. Oblique triangle trigonometry can be very challenging. So I think I could rearrange this thing to form a right triangle. So let's think about how things would move around. Let's have the weight vector be right here. Then the normal, the normal, I'm going to move to be over here. So we get something like this and then the frictional one would move to be down here like so. So we get this right here. This is our frictional force. My N got erased, so I'm going to draw that again. This is something like this. So this is our force diagram. Because it's an static equilibrium, it should form a polygon and since there's three of them, it'll form a triangle. The angle between the normal and the frictional force, that should be a right angle. So it is, that's a right angle as well. Let's make that look like a right angle. How does this measurement of 15 degrees come into play right here? Well, this is with respect to the horizontal. So let's think about that, for example. So if we were to draw a horizontal line right here, that's going to be 15 degrees. OK, but the weight vector, right, that's perpendicular. This is, this right here is a right angle as well. The weight vector is vertical, which is perpendicular to the horizontal. So that means that this angle right here inside of the triangle, that angle will be complementary to 15 degrees. All right. And so in particular, that's going to be 75 degrees, which then as this is a right triangle, the other angle here is going to be 15 degrees. And you probably couldn't also discover that using some type of corresponding or alternate here in angles argument as well. But we have this triangle, which is a 1575 90 triangle. So we need to find the sides here. We know that the hypotenuse is 16. We need to use a sine or cosine ratio to figure out the other ones. Let's do the frictional force first, right? So if we take with respect to which one do we want to do? We'll do the 15 degree angle because we have that one. So with respect to this angle right here, the frictional force is the opposite side. The hypotenuse is going to be the weight, and this should equal sign of the angle. We'll call it theta, right? So we'll call this angle here theta just for simplicity's sake. So then that tells us, of course, that if we divide by every time both sides by the weight, we're going to get the frictional force is equal to the weight of the weight, which is 16 pounds times sign of 15 degrees. For which we can use our calculator there. But sine of 15 degrees is one we've done before with exact values. You'll get the square root of six minus square root of two over four, like so. Four goes into 16 four times. So you get four times the square root of 16 minus the square root of two. This would be in pounds, like so. If you want an approximate value, you could approximate with your calculator. That's unnecessary here. Exact answers are perfectly fine. Then to find out the other side, to find the magnitude of the normal force, we could just use the Pythagorean theorem using 16 and this value right here. But as this value has some square roots, it might be easier just to use the cosine ratio. Notice that the normal the normal force versus the weight, this is going to equal cosine of theta again with respect to the 15 degrees. This is the adjacent side. So this is cosine here. This tells us that the the magnitude of the normal force will equal 16 times cosine of 15 degrees, which is the same thing as the same thing as sine of 75 degrees if you prefer. So you get 16 times the square root of six plus the square root of two over four. And that simplifies similarly. You're going to get four times the square root of six plus this time the square root of two pounds, like so. And this finds our magnitudes. You are allowed a calculator on this section of the test. So if you want to approximate your answers or you feel more comfortable doing so, that is acceptable here. But I'm just going to leave this as the exact answers as I end this video.


Welcome in Aloha. My name is Mark Shklav. I am the host of Think Tech Hawaii's Law Across the Sea program. Today we're going to discuss what's happening across the sea in China as relates to our financial markets. My guest is Benjamin Lau. Ben is a lawyer who has, among other things, practiced law on Wall Street, served as investment banking counsel at Merrill Lynch, and has a deep and vast experience in corporate finance and international financial markets. Ben also has personal and professional knowledge of the cultures of both the United States and China. Ben is presently Managing Director of Hakili Advisors in Honolulu. I've asked Ben to share his views from his financial market perspective concerning recent developments in China. Welcome, Ben. How are you? Very good, Mark. Thank you. How are you? I'm surviving. But Ben, there's recently been a flood of disturbing news coming out of China. Very confusing to me. Over the past few months, it seems like China has been restricting its economic opportunities and going back in time. From my viewpoint, it looks like China is shooting itself in the foot by cracking down on the opportunities that have made it so successful. And this is the basis for the title of today's program. As China lost, it's the party over. Ben, what is your view of what's happening in China? Yes. Thank you, Mark. Thank you. Before shifting over to China, I hope you give me just a moment to just acknowledge where we are this time of the year, September 13th. Time of the year where every year we acknowledge the special solemn time this is for many of us. I want to take this time to just remember 9-11 and those we've lost. I remember like it was yesterday. I was on my way to my office at the trading center, at the World Financial Center, the trading floor where I worked. And it's coming up from the subway on Rector Street and looked up to the sky. I thought I was seeing the most amazing Hollywood stunt ever, just this over-the-top disaster movie induction. I was actually looking at the World Trade Center, North Tower, as you can imagine, and it was where the first plane had hit. I didn't know at that time. I had no idea. So the tricks of the mind and what you see and what is, and even our world's changed. So like I said, at this time, friends of mine, former colleagues from Wall Street, New York Law, those who were there near ground zero like me, and those who are far. We're all bound by this. We connect this time of the year. We live our stories, our experiences, forging this tragedy. So if any of you happen to tune in, special hello, and yes, we'll never forget. Thank you. So to address your question mark, use the word flood. And that's a very appropriate word, I think. It's literally a deluge of developments coming out of China recently. Xi Jinping and the leadership of the CCP, the Chinese Communist Party, have been very busy these past years. And we're only beginning to see the fruits of their labor. Some on this side would say, poison fruit, poison fruit for our investors. It's a different culture. It's a different way. The CCP rules by edict. We're unfamiliar with that. In the recent weeks and months, we've been learning more details about the new rules, the new laws being enacted in response to the CCP's latest dispatch of edicts. Many over here in the US financial markets have been paying much closer attention than ever before. As these new rules hit us, affecting us far away from mainland China. We've seen the headlines. They blare. They're very full of image, chaos, sudden affluent, bewildering, threatening, aggressive, destruction, decoupling. The news is everywhere on everything. Like you said, market floods, everything. It's China, China, China. Xi, Xi, Xi and the CCP. It's critical we try and frame a more limited picture for viewers. It's such a big, big picture. Or try to keep the financial markets what we see and maybe why. For those of us who follow the financial news closely, the headlines show us literally our markets in somewhat of a grip, if you will, in the CCP's hands. Headlines blare, losses, collapse, data listing, debt bombs, crackdowns, hostile takeovers by the state, nationalization, decimation, robbery, millions of dollars. There was one headline, July 4th, Independence Day, middle finger from the CCP. News about a new Beijing stock exchange, competition, just chaos. Our markets have been shaken with the flip side, financial losses, the financial professionals are on the edge of the chairs. If you're not, if you're not on the edge of your chair, maybe you should be. Why? That's serious stuff coming out of China. We need to zoom in and then zoom out, zoom out for a second, try to get a 20,000 foot view, see the bigger picture. What we're witnessing, I think, is the equivalent of a series of increasingly alarming earthquakes unfolding on the other side of the Pacific. Those of us who live near the shores, we know this. After effects, the aftershocks, tsunami-like ripple effects, they travel across the sea, just like your title one. They hit us here. The earth shaking is from the CCP and their ongoing campaign that we're now paying closer attention to as the effects affect us, as they slam our shores. The CCP's campaign, if you haven't caught it in a summary, one way to look at it is essentially demolish and reconstruct China's modern-day economy, its culture, the way of life there. It affects, if you look at it, most all, mainly in Chinese in some way. And again, it touches us. It connects to our markets. That's where we're seeing it right now. It connects to our lives, our investment accounts, our livelihoods because we live in a world where we're just all more connected. We're familiar with many of the changes, amazing change China's undergone in the past 40 years. 800 million people lifted out of poverty, fantastic, amazing office towers and mega airports, super highways, high-speed railways, high-tech companies, worldwide brands, half a trillion dollar market values, China 40 years, half a trillion dollar market companies. Amazing. In certain other ways though, this is often lost. China really hasn't changed that much these past 100 years. It really hasn't. If we look to history, the CCP is doing what the CCP has always done. Many times before, since its founding 100 years ago, July 1921. If we zoom in now, that we would see re-engineering, reconstruction, as I call it, it's been pretty constant, unceasing, ongoing. This is what the CCP does. This is how they govern their country. We're just paying more attention. That's what's changed this time around. We're all more proximate to the construction, the reconstruction. We know those things kick up a lot of stuff. Anyone who has a neighbor who's undergone or is undergoing a major home remodel knows this. We not only see it, we feel it. We hear it.  And it could do damage to our property. This is no different. Today, we're all stakeholders in China. We're neighbors. We're entangled. We're interconnected in countless ways, invisible ways. But we see some of the effects of that interconnectedness. What happens there affects us here with more immediacy in some areas. In other ways, it'll be just like tsunami waves. It'll be slower with oscillation and back and forth and building up. And we'll see more impact. That's a prediction we'll see. But nowhere is the slamming of our shores more evident than our financial markets. The storm is still growing. Damage is not down. You can see that on the daily news, today's news, where there's more. It will impact more than just stock values. The seismic activity is earth shaking and it is man-made. So there are many questions and there are some who look to assign blame. So have their minds firmly made up? Others seek answers, ask questions, seek to understand. That's what we're going to try to do, Mark. That's what we've been trying to do. As I said, I'll try to limit the focus. China is too big. The issues are too vast. We have limited time. It's critical to frame the picture. Let's look at this slide. Please take a few seconds. Look at the slide on the left. What do you see? Do you see an image? We don't have time. So let me tell you what you might be seeing. A woman, right? Just look into the left. You can see her nose, her hair, her bonnet. Okay. Now look at the picture in the middle, the image in the middle. See her now within that heart-shaped frame? Did you see her the first time around before we framed it? My beloved, if you will, the young maiden, her jawline and the triangle at the bottom of the heart. Okay. Now focus on the picture on the right. See the framing. See the woman in the frame? You can see her eye, her chin, near the bottom of the heart. Her nose has a little bump on her eye line. Maybe you saw this the first time around. So this one, let's call my beloved grandma. It's called My Beloved and My Beloved Grandma. This is what they call an optical illusion. If you're unfamiliar with it, it's used as a teaching element. It's used to show, it reveals what we see may not be what others see, even though we're looking at the exact same thing. We may be right. They may be right. Each of us may think the other wrong. Here's the lesson. We're looking at the exact same thing and we're both right and we're both wrong. Why? Researchers tell us, those who study the mind and study the way we form ideas, and we see things through our own cultural optical lens, which you've referred to Mark, and we frame the picture of things that we see differently. We generally see things with predetermined ideas, biases. The task is to question our own framing each time. Constantly challenge our thinking. Try and look at the same thing over and over again, each time with a refreshed open mind. Here's an example of predetermined bias, the last slide we just saw. This exercise of My Beloved and My Beloved Grandma, your answer, if you saw the young maiden or you saw My Beloved Grandma, might relate all about you. Are you young? Are you looking for a female partner of a certain age? On the other hand, are you older or do you deal with elder parents? Do you have a grandma in your life that you're very close to and take care of? Did you see her first? It's very interesting what the mind can do. Now, why do we spend time doing this? Well, I think this is very important when we look at China, when we evaluate what's going on. We see what we see and we think we know what we see, but maybe we should question ourselves as to whether that's right or wrong. Ben, you say that what we see and they see is colored by our respective cultural optical lens. Well, what do we in the United States see through our western cultural lens concerning these recent events in China as they've played out in the financial market? Okay, well, this next slide will show us. I'll get to this in a second. I just want to address, you know, we're talking about the cultural lens. You might take a moment to address that. The cultures between the U.S. and China are vastly different. It's perhaps better to think that we're almost from different planets. That book, that famous book years ago about when ravenous men from Mars, it relates here, you know, talked about the psychological differences between the genders. Well, that barely begins to touch upon the cultural differences between a range of variants with the psychological makeups of Americans on the one hand and behind Chinese on the other. To address your question about the optical lens mark, this is very much about what we're going to talk about. So we have to consider, you know, on the one hand, we have America. The cultural values are pretty well individualism, independence, freedom, quality, things we're most proud of, rights, human rights, free expression, challenging authority, right? We teach ourselves and our kids to challenge authority. We prioritize winning. Those are some of our important values. Here's another way to contrast us and them. Remember this? Government is not the solution. Government is the problem. Turning on this head, in China, government is the solution. The other people, they're the problem or they will be. You don't want government to take care of things because you don't necessarily trust all those people that's going to be good for you. Look at the Chinese values that are fundamental to them as opposed to ours. Instead of individualism, collectivism, independence, self-restraint, freedom, loyalty, obedience. Chinese look for harmony. They look at rituals that face is very important. This is nowhere more critical than in the diplomatic relations between our countries. Deference to elders, filial piety, relationships. Chinese are not just about winning. They really aren't. They can't. There's too many people. They're always looking for win-win. It's a little bit contrary to us in America, we like to win. These differences in cultural values, they frame our optical lenses, if you will, on both sides of the equation. The heart of many of the current problematic issues and tensions between the US and China right now. Let's get back to these charts. Let's try to stick to the financial markets perspective. Just thought it was worthwhile talking about cultural lens. Let's look at these graphs. What do we see here? Very quick. A lot of information on this screen. It's not there to focus on that. These are just the major ETFs, electronically traded funds, that essentially contain baskets of Chinese stocks. If you had Chinese stocks, you might be familiar with these. You might own these directly. You might own the mid-directly. Cultural lens. What cultural lens does the financial markets look at? When they look at China, really they don't. They really look at things more in terms of color. Black or red. Anger or losses. What we're looking at is just showing that there have been a lot of downturns lately. If you own Chinese stocks, if you have exposure to Chinese stocks, excuse me, you've taken a hit. You've had losses. If you think you don't have Chinese exposure, you don't have Chinese stocks, you may be wrong. If you own a mutual fund or have a retirement benefit plan, chances are in that portfolio that's been put together for you, you have Chinese exposure. Our institutional money managers take on that exposure for you. Now, even if you don't have financial investments at any time, you still have exposure and risk to China. Let's look at our next slide. This is what this slide's about. A lot of data, a lot of information. These are stock charts. One on the left, that's Deedy, China's Uber. That's what their stock graph looks like for the first three, four trading sessions. First three or four days after IPOs in the US on the New York Stock Exchange. The one on the right, that's three lines showing to the right and downward movement for three of the major Chinese education funds, SNAP funds, Chinese educational technology stocks that are listed in the US. What are we looking at? We're seeing lines that are like lines you're not supposed to see. Now, it's too long to get into the story for Deedy, but the summary is two days after the IPO, after many people put millions of dollars, not individually, some did, but investors put all ranges of money. Nonetheless, they had massive losses. This is highly unusual. 30% losses in two and a half, three trading sessions. It's just not something that happens in our US capital markets. On the right, on the tech education stocks, we see losses of 50%, 60%, 80% in these names overnight. Again, unprecedented. I'll give this a cute little name without being too disrespectful. This is what this shows is the CCP is crashing the party. It's crashing our party, our financial markets, our investors party. They've been making a lot of good returns, but sudden rapid shifts. These companies came over to the US, availed themselves of the advantages of listing on our exchanges the best in the world, of going public in our country and having us, our investors, invest in them, our citizens invest in them. Why is that so amazing? It's because we're not used to seeing this in our capital markets. We're very careful about our capital markets. We are the best. We have the best because we've invested a lot of time, a lot of energy, many, many years. We have systems designed. We've invested in the infrastructure, not the physical infrastructure for stop changes, but the legal system. The courts, the legal precedents all the years of looking at disputes or cases and misunderstandings and having to brawl as a whole of them and a legal system and regulatory system. We're not perfect. We've had flaws. We're well aware of those, but we resolve ourselves. We recover. We're very resilient. The markets hold up. Now, why is this disturbing? It's because these kinds of charts, they're not supposed to look like this, like I said, and they do, notwithstanding all the efforts that we make on the American side, on the regulatory side, on the legal, on the lawmaking side, and that is part of the discussion that's going on, the part of the tension between the US and China is, what do we do when you have events like this where the CCP issues an edict, we suddenly see a new rule of law in China? Not anything to do with over here. And we experience the losses here. Just by comparison, I mentioned 9-11 earlier, the day the markets reopened after exit, such a shocking exogenous event like 9-11, markets were down 7.1 percent. Again, we're talking 30, 50, 60, 80 percent overnight changes. It's massive. It's uncalled for. This next slide. Take it from the micro to the macro. Now we're looking at the world. These images convey that these tsunami waves, as I described, they really do reach worldwide. The world's top four luxury brands lost 85 billion dollars in market value in a very short time. The world's richest man lost 10 percent of his wealth, not from investments in Chinese stocks, but impacted by the CCP edicts nonetheless. His holdings are in the luxury goods space, but it's incredible. The reach is just incredible. We see those numbers to trillion-dollar market cap, perhaps you significant losses. Those numbers do not properly quantify the amount of money at risk, I think. In China alone, if we're not considering, we're just talking about the companies, the public companies listed that have raised money through the capital markets. What about the private equity in China, the venture capital, the debt and credit, the US Treasury's stayhold? It's considerably more in businesses from the US and other countries. They do business in China. There's a lot at risk. Outside China, back here in home, many asset classes are affected and are going to be affected, real estate, cryptocurrencies. We'll get to it, but China's making a lot of changes. It's going to affect a lot. Ben, I'm getting a viewpoint from our Western cultural background. Now, what do they, the Chinese, or is it better to say the Chinese Communist Party, what are they seeing through their cultural optical lens? Well, you know, let's move to this next slide. What we're looking at here is a very, very big picture. But if you focus in a little bit, you're going to see globes that represent other countries. That's the point of this picture. China is one-sixth of the world's population. Wholesale countries fit just within provinces in China. Much the world fits in China. It's just, it's incredible. So the cultural lens that the Chinese government and Chinese look up is very different than ours. It's at an entirely different scale. When they make these changes, for instance, and scale has everything to do with it, the point I was making last about the worldwide reach, the effects with this latest campaign, if you will, of the CCP. The far-reaching effects are because we're all connected, but also look at the size of China. But because of the size of China, there are many things that they view differently. Okay, so what problems do they see within China? Well, let's take a look at what we see. Let's look at this next chart. What they see here, these charts, the information on this slide, shows that China has a lot of problems. We've heard of some of them. We read of them. We can't quite make sense of whether they're true or not or how they relate to us. If you look at the financial markets, the drops in these market values and people's wealth and more to come, I think, we're going to look back and we're going to see that it very much ties to the data. These are reports basically of what is going on in China. What China sees within China, what the CCP sees, is reflected in these graphs. They see that, first of all, we saw in the last graph, they have massive population. You think they have population control issues and want to manage that. It's ironic. No, it's the opposite. You want to grow their population. Why? Well, more specifically, they want to grow their certain demographics, the young demographics of the country. That just consequently results in increased population. Why do they need to do this? These charts show you why. We look at China, not this closely. Maybe our experts do. The regular person does. Maybe some of our investors don't need to do that. What we're seeing, though, is we're seeing that. Let's look into this next slide. Let me try to interpret here for you. This is a picture of China's demographics. What it shows is it's bands of color that represent bands of age, age ranges, a decade of age. Starting at the bottom, these are the children, the births, the new births. Moving to the top, those are the oldest in the population. This picture is not what you want a picture to look like. The one on the left is what China currently looks like. The one on the right is what China's headed as of right now. What should it look like? Well, let's think about this. You've got a lot of young people on the bottom, but you've got considerably more on this chart. You've got essentially your top head. What you kind of want this figure to look like is a pyramid. You want a very strong base below. What these charts show is there's too many people that are aging up in the top, if you will, of this picture. You need, think in terms of the World Trade Center, think of a super sky street for anyone around the world. What does it look like? It's got a very strong base and it goes up like the Egyptian pyramids. This is not what it's supposed to look like. Why? Because just like those real architectural things, it could topple. It could fall. That's what China's looking at. What next? Well, what next is they need to grow their population, their demographics, their kids. This is going to be, I think, very fundamental. Very fundamentally, one of the factors is we're looking at what China's doing. A lot of it relates to the younger generations in China and what's going on. We're seeing that with the latest campaign and the crackdowns that we're seeing. What kind of problems are there? Let's move to slide seven. I'm sorry, slide eight. These are further to the last slide about the structural instability of China and potentially collapsing on itself, very likely collapsing on itself. These show that China's got, in more detail, breaking down. They've got inequality, massive inequality across all spectrums. Income, wealth, wages, education. Very small percentage of China is educated. Single digit for all of China educated beyond high school. They've got inequalities of opportunities. They see declines where they want rising numbers. They have rising numbers where they need declines. They have declining birth rate. They have a dropping merit rate. They have a rising divorce rate. Declining households is a real big problem. China needs to grow the younger demographic. They need more births, or again, they will collapse upon themselves. Births require parents, require in China at least marriages, not divorces, not young divorces. They have rising unemployment rates. They have dropping labor participation rates. The opportunity inequalities are immense as well. Education, high paying jobs. The opportunities are not available to all Chinese market. This last image on the bottom right with the map of China with the orange. This shows that 50% of China's production as GMT as well is created in a small fraction of the cities in China. We're talking like 35 out of close to 700 cities. If you don't live there, the chance of you getting a good job, making a good pay, building a lot of wealth is micro. You don't have much of a chance. China has big problems. That's what they're trying to address. I think their campaign addresses some of these problems. They need high paying jobs, but they also need low paying jobs. Jobs too few people right now in China want. They don't want those jobs. They need to create pathways for upward mobility, for advancement. Not everyone can go into the tech sector. There's not enough space. There's companies, Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu, a host of others that you're beginning to hear the names of or have heard the names of for the last few years. They're big, but it's still not enough with 1.44 billion people, a good number of them who need to be employed. They need a more educated workforce and they need to educate in a certain way, not what's going on right now. What's going on right now is on self initiative or one's own self agenda. What you want is a good education from a very good school and you want to be lined up to get a job in the high paying sector in the high paying city. That just doesn't work for China because like a ship, if everybody's moving to one side of the ship and one portion of one side of the ship, the things are going to capsize. These are all these imbalances that we're talking about. China is the second largest economy in the world, but it's got the problems that you wouldn't think of as such a large economy. They have 1,058 billionaires, the biggest number in the world, but those numbers represent a nanofraction of real world population. They have 5 million millionaires, 9% of all millionaires in the world live in China, but given China's scale, that's three tenths of one percent of China's population. It doesn't do it for them. You see redistribution or we hear about this forced charitable giving, this encouragement of philanthropy. There's a reason for it. Three tenths of one percent. The graph up there on the top left shows the top 10 people in China shows that they make their worth rather, tens of billions, billions of dollars and tens of dollars. The rule household average annual disposable income, not well, converted to US dollars is $2,700. 20, 30, 40 billion at the top, 5 million millionaires. You've got how many living in poverty on $2,700 disposable income, discretionary income they could spend on other things. You can see China has a lot of things to resolve. These economic measures that have been taken, that's what they're aimed at. I think so. I think there's a little bit more to it than that, but underneath all of it the data would show that it aligns with what the CCP is doing with regards to its new rules and new laws. We view them through our cultural lens and we see a stern, angry, maybe authoritarian person whose language is translated for us and our media calls it a crackdown. It almost sounds like punishment. There might be that aspect of that. We'll get to that, but it's more than that. The CCP is addressing these imbalances, the structural instability where it could collapse upon itself, and this other stuff is going on as well. We have to look towards the end of this. Where is China's financial markets now and where are they going from here? China's financial markets, where are they going? That's a very interesting question mark. It's a very, very pertinent question. It can go a lot of ways. Who knows? One possibility is that we may see something on the order of the financial big bang that we saw in Japan. I mean, one of the possibilities, in today's news, a large property developer in China, their stock fell. It's already in the single digits, but it fell 30-something percent. The announcement was that BlackRock, one of our leading money managers here on this point, asset managers are more and more than just money, turned from doing a deal where they would acquire this large property developer in China. I think we might see, it depends on when, but I think we'll see more of those type deals. And I think if we can do it right and we don't decouple or separate or battle with China, there's a lot of things that we can do together that will help China and help Americans. Let me ask you, let's assume, let's say you're advising the President of the United States, what advice would you give to the President concerning this matter, how to proceed going forward? That's a big question. I will hypothetically play along. I would say to President Biden, thank you for your display of statesmanship, of leadership, exactly what one would expect from a very powerful nation, one that's confident. Just reach out, pick up the phone and call the other leader that you want to talk to. Fantastic job, I thought. All this stuff about who's going to call who first or all this petty stuff that gets reported in the news. I don't know if there's any truth to it or not. I know President Biden and his team are very, very busy. But those kind of moves are very important. So first of all, it's not advice, it would be a thank you. The second thing though is maybe this is advice and it's outside my peel house and outside my significance. I'm not significant enough to say this, but if he was listening to me, I would say I would strongly suggest consider replacing your Secretary of State. He's just not up to the job. That display that we saw in Alaska, the lack of protocol, lack of civility, it just, it did nothing except turn things back. It's not helpful. I'd also suggest him there are a lot of things that we could do, he could do, that would push us forward with China. That would be everything from addressing the situation with the Huawei CFO in Canada detained upon our wishes, just been hanging out for interminable period of time. We have so many other relevant things that this just doesn't get to that level. We've dealt with financial fraud, we've dealt with allegations of money laundering and dealing, trading with the enemy. This is just excuse, cut to the chase, give her back, let her go. If we need her to come back and face trial, just ask her to promise to do that and then have her come back. Let up on this blame game stuff, at least out of the White House. The US media and the rest of the world media, they'll take that up. We have another national election coming up. The person who's running for the government, for the president, for the Republicans, they'll definitely bang that drum again, but we don't need to do that at a White House. Let up on the Xinjiang thing. Human rights people will do that. We don't necessarily need to make that one of the key things. There's one really big thing that the president could do and that pertains to the financial markets as we're talking about it. That's the holding foreign company's accountable act that was passed in Congress and signed it law by President Trump last December. It's a ticking time bomb mark. It's something that's highly discriminatory. When you read it, it's very, very discriminatory towards Chinese. I think put those things on the table. Don't ask for anything in return. I'm not at that level of statesmanship, but don't negotiate. Let's just give a little and then see what comes back. I'm sure the Chinese will return with gifts of their own, offerings of their own. Ben, that's great. I hope that's what happens and maybe we'll have an opportunity to discuss this in more detail later. But thank you very much, Ben Lau. I appreciate your time and expertise in talking about the financial markets and we're still waiting for the answer to the question of is the party over. But thank you, Ben. Aloha. Aloha, Mark. Thank you very much.


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