您好,同志们,我的名字是何卫力。 当了1983年,我开始说西汉留在南海大学。 南海大学是在中国人民共和国。 些人听懂吗? Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Bill Hagastad. Many of you have heard me speak before at last year's DEF CON biohacking village. I introduced the Chinese military bioweapon systems program. I think it's funny that here we are sitting in a pandemic. Today, we're going to be talking about the very same group, the People's Liberation Army, and their bioweapons laboratory mission regarding Operation COVID-19. It's very important to understand this bottom line up front. All of this research that I'm going to present today comes from within the People's Republic of China. There is nothing that is regurgitated US government hyperbole. There is no hyperbole from the Western press. All this Chinese view is factually based upon what the Chinese are viewing of their own dilemma in the face of the Wuhan pneumonia. The Chinese military, of course, is testing new antiviral protocols on their own soldiers, not intending to use that on civilian subjects. China is also very concerned more about the US and its apparent lack of control in containing this pandemic. They see a lot of the disparaging comments made by the leadership of the United States as some sort of significant lack of leadership on the global stage. They also, from the Communist Party view, see this military loss of control of this bioweapons globally as a US issue, not necessarily Chinese. But in the shadow of this doubt, China cannot help but think of the military-to-military cooperation, certainly knowing that the history goes back to the very founding of the Communist Party of China when the US supported General Chiang Kai-shek when Mao Zedong used Japanese insurgents to run him off to Taiwan. And then last but not least, in the bluff portion, while the source of the pandemic is critically important in terms of containment, really now more than ever cooperation is something that the Chinese military is looking for. Now, as we enter this combination of the binary world and the bioweapons world, I offer you a chance to look deep inside the Chinese view of this, and really this is a respectful factual research regarding how the Chinese military bioweapons labs are contained, used, and otherwise operationalized within the People's Republic of China, and those potential implications for weaponizing viruses, perhaps from a Western view, such as what we are calling COVID-19. This is ultimately Xi Jinping's test on the nation stage. So there is no one left unharmed here and there is no disrespect intended towards any country, culture, or other part of society. Now, this pandemic that we're facing is truly an international issue. There is no doubt about that. The challenge, however, as you'll see at the end of this presentation, is who is cooperating with who to actually deal with this pandemic as a global issue rather than a singular national crisis. Now, in the Chinese view, they call it Wuhan pneumonia, and they're asking themselves, is it a biological weapon? Is it not a biological weapon? This critical question is one that is still talked about in the Chinese press on a regular basis. Now, you might be asking yourself, why do we not hear about this in the Western press? Well, it's quite simple. If you had heard about it, then it would be something that would be used against the Chinese. It's interesting, not only from a military perspective, but a civilian economic perspective. A lot of the news that they put out, while it may be contained and constrained according to the Communist message machine, it is still out there for consideration by the average Chinese citizen. This lets you know that the Chinese are attempting to work through this rather than castigate it themselves or another country. They will admit fault in this, and one of the most important pieces is the way that they regard the biosafety lab four in Wuhan in Hebei, China. It's interesting because the Wuhan Institute of Virology, as you can see in the upper left-hand corner of your slide, is not too far from what is known in the West as the wet market. While there are many mysteries and gossip placed about what happened, monkeys, etc., etc., it's interesting that these are only perhaps 12 kilometers away, 20 minutes or so by car. What's interesting though is that they, being the Chinese Communist Party, recognize that that biosafety lab in Wuhan is actually that the coronavirus is where it originated. Now it's really curious because the outside world, that would be you and I and the rest that are not Chinese, we believe that that lab, that BSL-4, is related to the Communist Party's secret biological weapons program. You would be correct. What is interesting is in the press, and you can see the URL down below, this comes directly out of China, is that a lot of the virologists are indicating that this is indeed a man-made virus. This is, if you will, the smoking gun. This is something that is very interesting that has not been admitted by the Chinese Communist Party, but it's critical from a societal perspective, say these experts inside China, that the Communist Party admit that it was a mistake and move on. And I'll give you some further facts that will demonstrate that this is indeed something that needs to be controlled. Now the Chinese view this as an accidental virus that escaped the lab. It was an experiment that failed. In other words, they believe that indeed the Wuhan pneumonia or COVID-19 was indeed a man-made virus that accidentally left the lab. This is quite contrary to what we are hearing in the press, because you can imagine at the nation-state level, the Chinese are denying that it happened, yet here in the Chinese press, there are evidences that indeed it was man-made. Now if we get back to that South China seafood market in the city of Wuhan in Hubei province, you'll notice that there is quite a bit of activity regarding this BSL4 lab, biosafety 4 lab. Now you may be asking yourself, what is a biosafety lab if you're not a biohacker? Well a biosafety lab category 4, we have one here at the University of Minnesota, is the most stringently controlled, securitized testing facility for all manner of man-made viruses that could kill you in an instant. It is critical, it's observed and monitored by many agencies in the U.S. government and the FBI field office here in Minneapolis maintains a tight control on who has access to that with the University of Minnesota, so you can imagine that that same level of security scrutiny takes place in Wuhan in Hubei China. This is important to note because you may be asking yourself, well what does a BSL4 look like? Well indeed here it is. If you're familiar with a hobbit trail, you'll notice that there are bridges that are air-controlled dynamically allowing access and entrance into this biosafety lab. It is specifically contained away from the civilian areas. You'll note the containment pond behind it along with the physical separation, not only with the high security fences, but the fact that the facility is very much tightly under not only local police, provincial police, but more importantly the military's protection. Now you may be asking yourself, how does the military factor into this? Well this is very important because as you'll note, and I'll introduce you to one of the generals of the Chinese military that took over this lab back in February, the BSLP4 in Wuhan actually was taken over by the military and what is interesting is if there was no military connection, why indeed did the military take over this BSL4 lab? And that is one of the questions that they're asking inside China. Essentially if it were effectively a controlled experimental location at that BSL4 lab, P4, in Wuhan there would have been no need for the Chinese military to go in and take a step. So let's introduce you to the nuclear biological chemical weapons cadre of the People's Liberation Army. A note for the audience, I am indeed a visiting scholar at the PLA's number one think tank, the Nofar Institute. So many of these are coming directly from my partners and associates, fellow scholars inside the People's Republic of China. You'll note by the URL 81.cn down below that that is a military website and if you go there certainly using a VPN and a perhaps a collapsible OS, you'll be able to review some of these same photos. Now what's interesting is that the Chinese military in their entrance and deployment into Wuhan actually came across the Wuhan facility that was actually testing monkeys. You can see the cages off to the right there. This is also very near the essentially the Wuhan wet or seafood market and the BSL4 laboratory. The Chinese military discovered this as they were deploying and then wondering, certainly it's possible that something of this nature could have come out of a wet market, but perhaps there is more compelling evidence that maybe it escaped from this animal laboratory testing facility. Now the P4 biochemical laboratory, as I mentioned, being separate is also near this very other model animal research institute of Wuhan University. What's interesting is this Wuhan University noted that the very earliest pneumonia cases were in November and record of a human interaction or infection of this was on December 1 of 2019. Now if you are following history, many of us were thinking well this will never come to the United States. Unfortunately, the Chinese have been very reluctant to figure out where the source of this epidemic was given the lead time in terms of where their infectious experts were able to focus within the People's Republic of China, but much of the research focuses specifically in Wuhan, as I mentioned in Hebei Province in northwest, excuse me, northeast China. Now as we get to the military, let's introduce you to a very important personage in this Chinese military website. She is known as the Chinese military evil terminator. She has quite the notable achievements in terms of controlling different types of diseases that have not only emanated but spread throughout China including most notably the containment of Ebola, SARS, H1N1 and other viruses. Her name specifically is Major General Chen Wei. Now she works as part of the Chinese Engineering Academy and of course according to the Chinese website they have been noted that she has been playing quote-unquote with drugs for over 30 years. I mentioned her Ebola and SARS terminator Noam Deguehr but she's been the leading doctor from a military perspective in terms of fighting infectious diseases within the People's Republic of China. Now on the 26th of January 2020, General Chen Wei brought in a team of military experts to Wuhan China. They realized that they were starting to have a outbreak and two days later they discovered that there indeed was a detection kit that noted that there was coronavirus 2019 and COVID basically resident within the Wuhan DSLP4. What's interesting is this detection kit had been jointly developed to detect this type of military record of nuclear biological and chemical effects with the Military Medical Research Institute of China. It's one of their state-owned enterprises which is interesting. This will play important towards the end of the presentation. Now what's really very interesting about the approval of this is that it received emergency Communist Party approval by the National Medical Products Administration. Typically this does not happen very effectively unless there is a national emergency. In this case they received a registration certificate to use this within a military environment within two days. Now of course with the deployment of the military much like in any civilian nation state, certainly the U.S. would be no exception, the Chinese take it very seriously and when Chen Wei deployed with her troops to Wuhan she noticed that the potentiality for an enemy and adversary picking up bio weapons that were developing Wuhan perhaps during a wartime was quite a serious event and certainly in peacetime she noted that a large-scale epidemics such as Wuhan, pneumonia now known as COVID-19 could indeed bring disaster to an entire country and nation. So basically she started to create what's called a biological military shield, essentially protecting the rest of China while putting her troops and herself and jeopardy within the city of Wuhan as they went into lockdown. Certainly you've seen Hollywood play homage to these types of critical situations but here you have Chinese military leadership stepping up to the plate and realizing that they needed to affect some sort of positive change to the situation in China. Now Major General Chen Wei was the first military person soldier and as a field grade a general officer she was the first one to take the injection of the practice or vaccine that was being developed. It had not been tested on anyone but basically she did what any good military leader and said I will take the injection and I will expect that my soldiers will follow me as we try to defeat this pneumonia that is emanated here in Wuhan and basically sacrifice ourselves for the country. Quite remarkable if you think about it. Now as part of their training certainly all the soldiers know that this day is going to come, yours truly having been in the Marine Corps for almost three decades. This is one of those instances where you don't want to be that body laying there on the deck with a gas mask nor do you want to be the one carried because you're incapacitated by people in rubber suits. Now from a further military perspective it's important that you understand this gentleman right here. Senior Colonel Yang Chang Jun now granted his history and experience as a nuclear strategy as part of military operations research he decided to theorize during this outbreak who or why would someone want to look at this and he came up with some very serious anecdotes in terms of these weapons of mass extinction weapons of mass destruction as we call them here in the western world and one of those features that he found very remarkably interesting is that they are low cost you could basically kill millions of people with a single drop of some particular viruses. So he noticed in thought perhaps that this is very similar to what was happening during the Cold War with much more devastating effect from a mass casualty perspective. Now he's not advocating he's just curious as to why this is happening because when you have a thermotoxin that could do such death by killing you know billions of people with a single drop there's got to be something that must be done from the military perspective. Certainly the Chinese military has early warning types of systems as the one you see here but more importantly he wondered what would be the effect on a foreign adversaries military and one of those was psychological shock. I will tell you if you've ever been to the gas chamber as part of U.S. military training it is done out of confidence granted it's annoying it's frustrating and it can be dangerous but until you have faced this you can imagine that if you are a civilian and have never encountered this this would essentially disintegrate and kill your will to survive or and live. You might even equate that with what might be happening in certain parts of our country today. Now as part of that chemical warfare that the Chinese are wondering who would affect this on another country he also thought about the silent effect. It is similar to cyber warfare in that it is the effect of winning without fighting meaning the spread of a thermotoxin can be deployed and spread rapidly in multiple areas of a civilian world or incapacitate a military facility very quickly essentially rendering the defense of a nation useless. Now senior Colonel Yang Chung-Jung is not advocating this he's just saying these are the effects that all militaries must deal with and of course the military in China will deploy sensors on the ground and certainly in the air to determine if an area has been infected. One of the most remarkable things that he discovered is that the consequences of these types of bio weapons are fairly serious because not only will make those that would want to operate kinetic weapon systems inoperable that it will also cause them to lose their ability to essentially live normal lives that is essentially indirect terrorism if you think about it because if you cause fear in a population or in the military they lose their will to fight so he knows that these consequences are serious and they should not be leveled against any adversary again he's trying to find a message to get out to the world that they are trying to work together now certainly cleansing systems even in a nuclear world but more importantly in a pandemic requires cleansing and here you have the Chinese military basically soaking down a vehicle for further use but that does not mean that the virus has gone away once one of these men man made pandemics occurs in the form of an epidemic it really starts to affect a large population of citizens within a country when you start to see the death rate approaching 200,000 250,000 it is perhaps past the point of no return the Chinese do not want this on any other country this is essentially what the senior colonel is talking about but if those symptoms are not treated and the leadership of a country does not recognize that he continues to theorize then it becomes simply a zero-sum game for that adversary now of course testing the earth is interesting you'll notice that these are foreign soldiers training with the people's liberation army they are not Chinese they are working with foreigners now this will be a very curious theme as we get a few more slides into this presentation and certainly here you can see a couple of PLA nuclear biological chemical soldiers going to decontaminate an area now what's really interesting is with general Chen Wei's first use of that experimental coronavirus vaccine basically it started to indicate that that candidate for viral infection control was done by not only the PLA the people's liberation army but also cancino biologics and it was added so that the viral trials would go on for one year although there would be three clinical trials they all indicated it could not be used on civilians my research indicates that perhaps a controlled civilian population may be the rest of Xinjiang population in western China now of course as they go through this they begin to test Chinese military is testing the virus not only in terms of protecting the soldiers but also understanding that now you've got a civilian state-owned enterprise in China that is working with the PLA they've gone through first and second clinical trials of this new coronavirus anti-vaccine but what's interesting as they've determined that the Communist Party is approved for only for internal use in the military for a period of one year it's interesting that the stock price of cancino has actually risen 284% due to the vaccine development they're doing but you've heard me say this before here we have a communist country that has stock prices soaring during a pandemic this is rather curious and very very interesting now of course the Chinese military realized that they are indeed part of this biological test what's interesting though is general Chen Wei is cautiously optimistic basically saying that these experimental results should not be interpreted without abandon but basically what she is saying is now that they've encoded that gene-prone tame and essentially attenuated with a common cold virus to you know trigger an immune effect that does not mean that the end state has been reached what it means though is that there is at least a possibility of vaccine protection against the coronavirus infection so the Chinese military is sacrificing part of it force part of its force structure in order to defeat this virus within the People's Republic of China and of course they have various testing assays going on what's interesting about this is phase one was not necessarily effective for the Chinese military there were side effects that were deadly certainly the military knows that when it signs up the US is no exception a number of Chinese soldiers on the order of six or seven thousand lost their lives receiving this vaccine but what's interesting though is Consino has stated now just about a month ago actually three weeks that they have developed protocols that allow the vaccine to be developed meaning that the phase one while sadly a little bit of a failure phase two is moving forward with some progress and certainly phase three will go into effect as they start to inject more and more of the Chinese military population and again I mentioned that restive civilian population to the west of Beijing and of course the containment goes on from a military perspective but most importantly it's interesting to understand where is a lot of this study for further research coming out of and I must take you to the Wuhan Institute of Virology it's part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences which is interesting because their mission is that essentially they will give full role of party consent and agreement and do exactly what the Communist Party it tells it to do meaning that they are fighting a fortress as it says they're finding gaps in the information world for implementation and making sure that the state council the central party committee and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have the latest biosafety research possible now this comes from their annual message which was released not too long after the pandemic started to take hold in China this is very interesting because it plays into why would they be doing this well essentially if you follow your news the Department of Justice in the United States invited two hackers last week they were part of the Chinese ministry of state security of the out of Guangdong province down in the south by Hong Kong what's interesting is they allege and are charging Li Xiaoyu and Dong Jiajia of hacking computers specifically those computers in countries that were working on a virus now my question for you is if the Chinese have a vaccine why would they be sending cyber espionage agents across networks around the globe to try and find the antivirus protocols one must wonder if they perhaps are failing they realize they need to find another way to find that technology or perhaps it's just another method of enhancing the research that they do have and of course when the winning of that consino vaccine has been developed China will state that it is really the taking the leadership position now this is important not only from an economic perspective but more importantly from a state-owned enterprise the China Biotech corporation that you see here is really part of the China National Pharmaceutical Group why am I telling you this because this is a subsidiary of the Wuhan Institute of Biological Products a biological technology company based in Wuhan which is the epicenter for the Wuhan pneumonia or coronavirus essentially you have some interesting fingers pointing from a hacking perspective going against nation-state pharmacological and antiviral research and perhaps bringing it back to the very epicenter of the pandemic globally and the Chinese are quite worried about this you will not read about this in the western press but here you have it for your edification now what's important about this the Chinese view the opportunity now on the world stage to work with countries in the Middle East which is not something they do from a military perspective but it's interesting because they are now entering into anti-coronavirus vaccine trials with United Arab Emirates specifically in Abu Dhabi this is very interesting because the crown prince in this particular case in UAE would not allow this type of joint disclosure unless indeed it had happened and the Chinese press has capitalized on this basically stating that the UAE is working and supporting China's fight against the corona epidemic and antivirus so the Chinese believe that they are regaining the leadership position globally in the absence of any U.S. leadership this one brings us back around to where we are biohacking village DEF CON 28 in the United States so here we have a fractured relationship between the United States and China and it's interesting because our Secretary of State as the Chinese view it continues to blame it and when the Chinese hear things such as the kung-fu or other racist types of remarks they can't but help but wonder how can we possibly cooperate with the United States if they are blaming us when we are trying to find a solution that will essentially work with the world what's interesting though is that across the Taiwanese Straits that second state Taiwan they are very interested in this dialogue they are actually stating that they are seeing the Communist Party of China the CCP talking about actually making claims that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency was the one that concocted this and that if you think back to the military world military games a year ago in October of 2019 the U.S. military sent a number of soldiers there they believe that they were actually biochemical agents taking bio weapons into Wuhan for the purposes of later deployment so you can imagine that it is a lot of finger pointing back and forth in terms of who done it and where to solve now last but not least we have of course the Chinese wondering perhaps will this ever end what is happening in the United States they used to be such great allies of us we wonder from a Chinese perspective what is happening in the United States and interestingly they being the Chinese believe that there is no solid end game here and this is not a political statement from my perspective it is simply a statement from the Chinese perspective that they are worried that the pandemic is starting to consume what used to be the global leader of the United States out of sake of political gain or perhaps reelection for the current president of the United States now conclusions these are controversial across the board the Chinese and the U.S. agree that the Wuhan virus was not man made however Chinese researchers are not so certain of this and their commentary indicates that there is a military source occluded with this and of course the response from a Chinese military perspective to the epicenter of the Wuhan epidemic in Wuhan is curiously compelling and of course number four the consistent Chinese Communist rhetoric blames the U.S. Department of Defense and military for the outbreak of this virus number five the Chinese are cooperating with the Gulf Cooperation Council excuse the bad pun specifically the United Arab Emirates in a world where they normally would not allow this they being the UAE the Chinese military of course under the leadership of Major General Chen Wei have subjected themselves as the antivirus test noting that there will be no civilian use except perhaps in Xinjiang and the rest of civilian population China is curious and actually concerned that redirecting the virus source towards them is a narrative towards redirection and misdirection on the part of the U.S. elections given the current leadership in the United States they last but not least if the U.S. cannot lead in this role China is optimistic that the global leadership role will be theirs for the taking and they feel that this is an important time for the middle kingdom to regain its historical position as a leader in biomedical research and get rid of the Wuhan pneumonia that concludes my brief ladies and gentlemen thank you very much for attending I will be available for questions when this is rebroadcast Xie Xin'en, Zai Qian'er


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In a few days, you have the opportunity to meet so many different people from all continents with so different monks or an artist or the leader of Nestle or prime minister or I mean it's just unique and what I try to do is capture the mood of the business community and the economy and I talk to a lot of business leaders but also journalists. What struck me this year for instance is that I mean three years ago Adrian would remember very well there were questions about the Eurozone and whether it was going to survive. This year it was not a topic as if the Eurozone was going to survive and was cured in a way but the other thing that struck me is that the brick story which has been you know the success story for the last maybe decade is less of a success story these days and people are a lot more cautious about Brazil, India and even China which is slowing down a bit. Africa we used to I remember sessions years ago when we were talking about Africa and how we could save the children and you know from all those terrible disease today Africa or this year was is it going to be the success story of the next decade you know we all know that Africa's population is going to double in the next 35 years and it's a big question mark you know but it could be a huge economic and business story. My background my field is economics we talk a lot about leading indicators in economics something that tells you in advance what may be happening. You're talking about Davos as a leading indicator of some sort would you say that's right? I usually get out of this session with a certain number of very strong impressions and thoughts that you see happening in the coming month or at times in the next year but yeah because it's again you meet all the people who have a role to play in those decisions and in those countries and in those I was struck by Mexico this year also the president of Mexico came and made a very impressive speech about all the reforms they've done watch Mexico to meets it's something we should watch in the next few a few months and so yeah you get I think early signals what can happen.


Hi, we are with Dr. Yaron Brooke, and he is executive president of the Eindland Institute. Dr. Brooke, what is capitalism? Capitalism really is a social system. It's a social system based on private property. So in a capitalist society, all property is privately owned. The government's only role under capitalism is the protection of individual rights. So you could also view capitalism as the political system that implements the idea of individual rights, the rights to life, liberty, property, and the right for every individual to pursue his own happiness. In a capitalist society, the only role of government is to make it possible for people to pursue their lives, to do the best, to make the most out of their lives. The government has no role in interfering, in positing some kind of positive agenda. They're supposed to step back, let people do whatever they want, and as long as there's no violence, as long as there's no violation of rights, the government has no role to play. That's what capitalism really means. Evidence shows that capitalism produces magnificent practical and economic achievements. But that seems not to be important. I mean important enough to defend capitalism. Why is it that the moral defense of capitalism is necessary? Well I think you've indicated the problem. The fact that capitalism is successful is not in dispute. All you have to do is look at Hong Kong versus China, pre-China freeing up. All you have to look at China when it was more communist and China when it's freer. All you have to look at is East Europe under communism and Eastern Europe once it became free. So the practical benefits of capitalism are not in dispute. So why don't people accept it? And I think the reason people don't accept it is because they don't accept the moral basis behind capitalism, which is self-interest, which is the pursuit of profit, which is the pursuit of one's own well-being. So what is capitalism? How do people function under capitalism? What do people do under capitalism? Under capitalism people go out and do the best that they can do for themselves. They try to make great products. They try to make a lot of money. They go into professions they love. They do things to further their own life. And the funny thing is, yes, that that is perceived as evil because we have been taught for at least 2,000 years that the standard of good, the standard of morality, is other people's well-being, is devoting one's life to other people. Mother Teresa is the classical example of this. Mother Teresa is considered a moral saint, a moral hero. Because she gave up her middle-class life, she gave up the values, her kind of Western values, and went out and gave her life to other people. She spent all her time helping the poor out of a sense of duty that that was her moral responsibility. We live in a culture that places the ideal as the ideal of sacrifice, the ideal of giving the idea of duty to other people, rather than what capitalism, the results of capitalism are, people pursuing their own self-interest, people doing what they want to do, people making the most out of their own lives, people pursuing their money. So even though that leads overall, even to the poor people, for a better standard of living overall, it's done in the name of self-interest and self-interest. Every philosopher, since Aristotle was the last defender of self-interest, every philosopher since then, both in religion, if you look at the Christian religion, the Islamic religion, if you look at Immanuel Kant, if you look even at the better philosophers, every single one of the philosophers has said, your moral duty, your moral obligation is not to live for yourself. Kant actually said that if you think about your own self-interest in an action, it's outside of the realm of morality. Morality is self-less. Well, capitalism is not self-less. Capitalism is about self. And if we don't accept that, if we can't accept self-interest as a moral ideal, we can't view businessmen as heroes. We can't view pursuing one's own life making the most out of our lives as a good thing. And therefore, we can't accept capitalism. And look at every time some legislation is proposed by the left in order to reduce freedom and reduce capitalism. How do they do it? They always appeal to two things. They appeal to the fact that people don't trust those greedy businessmen because they're too selfish. And they appeal to the fact that everybody wants to see the people who are suffering helped. Because the ethic that they are brought up and the morality that they're brought up on is a morality that says help the people who are suffering. Christianity tells us the meek shall inherit the earth. And restrain the people who are successful, who are rich, who are pursuing profit because they're being self-interested. And again, every religion, every philosopher has said self-interest is a bad thing. So to really win capitalism and battle for capitalism, we need a revolution, a moral revolution. We need to abandon what I call altruism, the idea of the standard of value being other people, and adopt Ayn Rand's code of ethics, which is rational egoism, which is self-interest as the standard of morality. Now you mentioned the poor, the helpless. Should we forget about the poor and the helpless? Well, I don't think government has any role with regard to the poor and the helpless. And then it's up to us as individuals. The question is, why are they poor? The fact is that under capitalism, there are jobs for everybody. If you're willing to work, you'll progress in life, you'll get better.  The poor have every opportunity under capitalism to rise up, to go to work, and to improve their lot. Ultimately, it is capitalism that created the middle class. What about those who are truly helpless? Those who can't, they're born with a defect, or they've got some problem, or they've had an accident, and their house is burnt down, or something bad has happened to them, and now they're in real trouble. That's where charity comes in. And I'm certainly not against charity. I think it's in our self-interest to help people who deserve to be helped, or help people who for real reasons cannot help themselves. But then it's still about us pursuing our values. Each one of us will help the people that we think we wanna help, that we value. We're not helping them at the point of a gun. We're helping them because we want to help them because it's in our self-interest to help. You have been mentioning capitalism, but many other systems look alike capitalism. How can you distinguish capitalism from others? Well, I don't think there really is anything that looks like capitalism. I think there's confusion today about what capitalism means. A lot of people think of today, for example, that America, the United States, is a capitalist country. And it's not. It's a mixture between some capitalism and a lot of socialism, and I call it the mixed economy. A mixture of socialism and capitalism. I think capitalism in its pure form is unmistakable. It's a system of private property, of individual rights, and therefore freedom. And there really are no imposters to that kind of mixture. For example, what's going on in China today is a mixture, again, of a lot of socialism and remnants of communism and some fascism and some capitalism, some freedom. But that freedom is very limited, so what they have is a mixed system. Pure capitalism is very rare. It existed maybe for a little while in the 19th century in the United States and maybe in Great Britain. It's never really existed in its purest form. It's something that we're striving towards. And when we see freedom, when we see a little bit of capitalism, we see the effects it has on people and how much prosperity and wealth is created as a consequence of even a little bit of freedom. Imagine what it would be like if the shackles came off of business, if we could really be free, if we could really produce. It's hard to imagine the kind of world, the kind of progress, the kind of standard of living that we could. Thank you, Dr. Brook. Thank you.