Okay, good morning, and welcome everyone. It's a great joy to be together with each one of us this morning And to be able to connect to the mentoring are so let's pray and then we'll get started. I will introduce today's subject and Trusting God that we'll have an enriching experience So what a request one of us to please go ahead and lead in prayer. Let's pray Heavenly father and come to you under the name of Jesus. I thank you for this day Thank you for the mentoring are that we are about to have Jesus and God I pray that Lord you will speak with us I will help us to understand the deepest truth in the Bible. It'll help us to open our Spiritualized spiritual your spiritual mind and listen to the word and to be acute in every way possible Jesus We thank you for pastor Nancy, and I thank you for everyone has joined today in Jesus name. I pray amen Amen. Thank you. Tafina. I'll go ahead and share the screen today, we will talk on the subject of anointing and Yeah, feel free to pose your questions right after that and we'll do our best to answer it So let's go ahead. I hope that you can all see this present presentation so the anointing is a subject that all of us are Curious about and interested in and would like to know More about you know how God really gives us that anointing and how we can Work through the anointing of God in our lives. So we'll try to understand what the anointing is from scripture So when we consider the word Anoint There are two Greek words from the New Testament that we can consider one is Creole the other one is alpheo both of which mean to anoint and what we Recognize from these words is that it means to smear or rub with oil so to be rubbing with oil over something is what we call as To anoint and we see a practice of anointing in the Old Testament where people used This practice of anointing to consecrate someone for a particular office Or for some form of religious service So that is how the anointing was done and that is why the anointing was generally done Now when we look at the Old Testament The a person would be anointed to signify that they have Been blessed and called With a purpose. So we find that generally there were people who were anointed as Kings there were people who were anointed as prophets. There were people who were anointed as priests and The oil that we see You know used in the Old Testament We understand that it represents the Holy Spirit and People would be anointed or as we said earlier Consecrated for a special purpose and that is why they were anointed So as we consider us, you know, those who are believers filled with the spirit Holy Spirit of God and we who are now under the new covenant We no longer see that God only Chooses a few people to anoint them for his work but Under the new covenant, we all know that as believers all of us carry the Holy Spirit and All of us have the work of the Holy Spirit in each one of us And as we look at the New Testament scriptures We recognize that there is something known as the anointing within and the anointing upon So usually this term anointing we we saw the actual meaning of that but we also know that the anointing is Alternatively used for the Holy Spirit as well. So Apostle John in 1 John chapter 2 and verse 20 He says but you have an anointing from the Holy One and you know all things and In verse 27 he says but the anointing which you have received from him abides in you So he's referring to the presence of the Holy Spirit that every believer receives at the point of being born again So the anointing is the presence of the Holy Spirit that every believer carries Now this we understand However, the New Testament also refers to the Endowment of the power of God by the Holy Spirit, which is known as the anointing upon We call it the anointing upon we see that Jesus in Luke chapter 4 and verse 18 He said the spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me So Jesus was saying that he was Anointed or there was the the spirit of God upon him or the power of the Holy Spirit upon him Which enabled him to do the good works that he did and so here we we see that The anointing is required upon us to do the works of God the way Jesus did the works that the father called him to do and Jesus states that you know the anointing on his life was meant to preach the gospel to the poor to Bring about healing of the broken hearted to proclaim liberty to the captives recovery of sight to the blind and set at liberty those who are oppressed so the works of God and we can summarize this as preaching the word of salvation Seeing miracle stake place healings deliverances God's intervention in people's lives And that is the kind of work that Jesus did by the power of the Holy Spirit upon him so the Holy Spirit within us dwells in every believer and there's also the endowment of power upon us Which enables us or which empowers us to do the works that God calls us to do So what is the significance of the anointing? No, the anointing as we've seen we have it within and upon So the anointing within refers to the work of the Holy Spirit the ministry of the Holy Spirit and We we know that in every believer's life, you know, the Holy Spirit leads he Transforms and he does his work in that manner now The anointing upon that we also talked about just now is an empowering that Enables us to do the works of God More specifically the supernatural works of God that we enlisted so the Anointing the necessity for anointing in every believer's life is so that we have an impartation of the ability of God In us to do God's work Okay, so what does the anointing do? We've seen that in the life of Jesus and very similarly When Jesus said he was anointed by the Holy Spirit. He was able to function in You know in his call He was able to do the supernatural works and we too will be able to do those same works and in Align to the call of God on our lives So whatever it is that God wants us to do we can do it by his Empowering and we need the power of the Holy Spirit to do those works And that is why each of us as believers no matter which walk of life. We are in we may be part of The ministry very directly The five-fold ministry offices or you know within the church or we could be called in the market place But wherever we are we can depend on the power of the Holy Spirit to enable us to do the supernatural Works that God wants us to do and fulfill his call And that is why this eagerness to know more about the anointing and to grow in the anointing so when do we receive the anointing to a Fulfill God's call and to fulfill this ministry that God has for us as we stated We need the anointing upon and we do know that the anointing upon comes When we are baptized in the Holy Spirit what Jesus spoke about in Acts chapter 1 and Was it so you know that is the initiation of that anointing upon and from then on as Good stewards we we need to engage with that anointing and also cause that anointing to increase upon our lives and so let's talk a little bit about How to increase the anointing of God on our lives I've taken Most of the content from our APC resources. So Those of us who are in Bible college you you probably have heard These aspects and some are the other course as well So how do we increase in the anointing of God on our lives? Firstly to align ourselves to the grace and the gift of God on our lives is very helpful because we recognize that God calls us to minister in accordance to the gift of grace that has been given to each one of us and so each of us has a grace upon our lives and There is a grace according to the measure of Christ So a portion of grace has been given to each of us and so the things that we can do the abilities that we have Are all different but they're according to what God has Given to us or God has entrusted us with so it's important for us to recognize the grace of God on our lives and When we recognize God's grace on our lives and we engage in doing more of What that grace enables us to do we see that there is an anointing on that Activity or on that ministry for example if someone is called to administration We see that if they have the grace of Administration we find that you know their ability to do things is Significantly more greater and you know so much more blessed by God than if they were to do Something else that they are not called to do maybe let's say you know if they're not called to lead worship But if they're called to administer we see that They have a greater anointing on that administrative ability that God has given them and similarly if someone is called to something else Such as worship we may find that they are more anointed to lead people in worship as compared to You know any other task that they don't have you know much of the grace of God in that task So here is one key and that key is to identify what we are called for step into that and as Peter Exorts the believers. He says grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ we can grow in the grace and Growing in that grace growing in that ability Will enable us to see more of God's anointing flow in and through that ministry Or that work that God is calling us to do so that is one one very Important thing that we can remember so to grow in the grace and the gift of God on our lives Now what are some of the other things that we can? Consider in order to grow in the anointing the second one is to increase in the word or to Spend more time in the word to give more attention to the word to engage in the word of God More intently and strongly the reason being the word of God as Jesus spoke about it He said my words they are spirit and they are life So there is the power of of God in his word and there is the life of God in his word And therefore as we engage in more of the word we begin to see that you know, we We are able to grow further in the ability Empowered by the Holy Spirit or in other words the anointing of God So the word itself carries the anointing and which is why engaging in the word Believing the word and you know declaring the word speaking the word living the word all of that Increases the anointing on our lives the next important thing that helps us is Consecration Consecration simply means to set apart our lives for the Lord So when we when we commit ourselves to the Lord we commit to holiness when we commit to You know Giving ourselves more to the Lord. In fact, we're supposed to give all of us all of ourselves to the Lord But you know as we rise in our commitment in our journey We see that the more the consecration the greater the anointing of God on our lives So consecration is another important thing that increases the anointing of God on our lives Then of course there is what we call as impartation and impartation Simply refers to the anointing that can be put on our lives you know, which which can come either through association with With the ministers of God it can come you know through Serving together or as I said association. So impartation can come through transfer through from a particular ministry or Person but again when it comes to impartation We need to remember that the impartation will only happen in parts And we we really do not see that, you know, God Transfers the entire whatever a kind of anointing a particular minister carries and in entirety You know that shifts on to another person. It does not really work like that So in measure the impartation happens and the impartation also happens aligned to the call of Different ones of us. So these are some things for us to remember. So in a gist, you know We talked about what the anointing is why the anointing is so significant Why we must look for the anointing upon our lives and the fact that we can grow in the anointing of God we can grow in the Ability that God gives us to minister and to serve others. So very briefly here We've shared some thoughts on the anointing But at this point, we'll just open up this time for us to ask questions anything related to the anointing please feel free to ask and You know, our faculty is on this call and we'll do our best to address The questions that may come up. So though we have a particular. Yes, please go ahead Brad Good morning pastor Nancy. Good morning. Yes. I have this question We talk of anointing Is there any difference between anointing calling and grace because it's kind of like confusing So I don't know if you can throw more light on the difference between a grace because I hear people sometimes talk of them I have a pastoral anointing or have a pastoral grace I have an apostolic calling, but I have a teaching grace. So all this is really confusing. So I don't know if you can like Explain some more. Thank you Okay. Thank you, Brad for that question. So I'll Share from my understanding So when we say The anointing as I already stated it has to do with the the power of the Holy Spirit The power of the Holy Spirit that gives us the ability to serve And to minister so that is the anointing So it is the power of the Holy Spirit the power and presence of the Holy Spirit when we talk about grace of God Grace of God is also ability That is also the empowerment of God which is given to us but you know The distinction would be that the grace of God is an ability that God gives but anointing more specifically Empowered by the Holy Spirit and when we talk about the call of God call of God is You know like a specific if you may call it a Ministry intended That God has for individuals. So that's as much as I can understand Prat, I'll just request our Faculty here to also add to it. So if there's anything more that our Faculty want to add so the difference Prat is asking for the difference between the anointing Grace and Call of God on our lives So I can see Pastor Jay Kumar So I'd like to request Pastor Jay Kumar to share Thank you so much Morning, everyone Just just a few thoughts on the call of God call of God is an actually an invitation Invitation and an opportunity That God prepares for us to minister to his people. So each individual, you know, there's a specific call People place and so on the way in which we do it and It could be Well in the five-fold ministry as we see in Ephesians 4 or it could be any other Way that it could be an overlap of one or two, you know, the five-fold ministry Or it could be any other gift that we see in the body that we are placed in the body like Romans 12 Talks about that. So so that is the call It's an invitation opportunity and an avenue through which God releases His plans and purposes through the individual to minister to either the body or, you know People outside. So that is the thing But when when we pursue the call of God, there is the anointing So we talk about the power and presence of God to fulfill that call So there is the we are anointed they are empowered by the Holy Spirit in order to fulfill The call of God. So that is that would be the distinction between the call and the Call is an invitation. No, it is the empowerment. We talk about the grace of God or the grace gifts of God This is also, you know, there's an overlap. It is yes, definitely. We are anointed, but we are also This is for you know, we see that it is for every believer. We see that, you know, every believer has can pursue Love and desire spiritual gifts. That's the exhortation. So every believer has Has been exhorted to do that. So these spiritual gifts or the gifts of grace are for every believer So that is another distinction that the all believers can pursue and desire the gifts of grace to be operational in our lives and the call of God is a specific area We need not compare with others. It could be very distinctive and from others And the anointing is the empowerment to fulfill that call. I hope that helps Thank you pastor Thank you pastor. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and But I hope that that clarifies the distinction between the words and pastor. Thank you also for Mentioning that to operate in the gifts of the Holy Spirit now that all of us can do that all of us have that grace all of us can Tap into that grace and all of us can operate in that grace. So thank you for you know Especially clarifying that point. I will move on to the next question here by Jeffina and she says We you said we can grow in our anointing. Is there any biblical life? Example of someone who grew in the anointing Okay all right, so I Would I mean I can think of Philip right now in the book of ads We know that he had a ministry of evangelism and we we know he had a call of God on his life for sure However, we we don't really see him you know operating He is doing his best, but then we don't see him being called as an evangelist initially when he's ministering in Samaria and then you know, you have these other incidents when he is ministering to the Ethiopian eunuch and we know that you know He's doing his his work and he is functioning in the call of God But my understanding is that he was he was growing in that grace and anointing that God had given him to the point That at one towards the end of the book of acts. We see that he's called as an evangelist Did the call already exist on his life? Yes, of course because the Bible teaches us That the gifts and callings of God are irrevocable. So the call of God already existed upon his life But you know, he would have emerged stronger in that anointing and it would have probably become more obvious Which is why people also started calling him Philip the evangelist towards the end of the book of acts So that is one example that I can think of Does that help Jeffina? Okay, thank you. Thank you so much and Also, you know was just thinking about the Old Testament and As we consider the prophets who were under training like if we take Elisha okay for for example, we find that he was in training under Elijah and When Elijah was serving we don't really see Elisha Ministering but eventually we see that he emerged with a powerful anointing on his life In fact, the Bible is very clear that there was a double portion of the anointing of God upon Elisha's life So there are measures of anointing and which is why we are saying it can increase As we pursue the call of God over our lives Thank you, Jeffy now. Thank you for that question When I a prince when I deep has a question he says so he said growing the anointing So is there a possibility to lose anointing also since we can grow in the anointing Can we also ask and desire for anointing in specific areas? We desire okay, so there are two questions the first one that Prince first question that Prince is asking is Is there a possibility to lose the anointing lose the anointing? Yes, Prince we when when we do not function in the grace of God for our lives and the gift of God We could say that the the grace and the gift they become inert and you know the Holy Spirit Even though God would like to anoint us There's really nothing much that can actually happen through our lives and so in that sense Yes, we don't see that anointing functioning through our lives And I'll open up the first question to our faculty as well. So very specifically Prince is asking Can we lose the anointing on our lives? Would any of us want to respond to that question if I may ask Pastor Ashish So I'm going to say join late. Okay, I can ask the question again. So the question is when we began this morning We shared that we can grow in the anointing of God. So the question is is there a possibility to lose the anointing on our lives? So the anointing can increase or decrease that is the level of what we carry upon our lives can increase or decrease Because you know we see in scripture There are different degrees of anointing. So examples quickly I'll give you the example So the anointing can increase or decrease So the anointing can increase or decrease Because you know we see in scripture there are different degrees of anointing. So examples quickly Elijah and Elisha There's a double portion and you know John 3 34 that God does not give the spirit by measure It means that there are there are measures and there's this there's so much more So the level of anointing can increase or decrease but for those of us who are called I mean those are us who are believers They're not going to lose the anointing in the sense that the anointing always abides with us. Jesus said that in John 16 He is with you and he will be in you. He will be in you forever For instance, the Holy Spirit for a believer is with us always Romans 11 29 the gifts of the calling of God are a provokable So along with the gifts and the calling that are obviously has to be anointing For the gifts and the calling to operate So based on this we can say the anointing is never lost as long as we are walking with God But the level of anointing can vary Now can a believer come to a place where I mean they totally lose their faith and the anointing Yeah, that's possible, he grows six but that's a totally different condition Totally different state in which a believer is But in general if somebody is walking with God you're continuing in faith You're not going to lose the anointing The level of anointing can vary also the dimensions You know like we operate in different kinds of anointing So there may be a season when you're moving more in an apostolic grace There may be a season when you're moving more in a prophetic grace or teaching grace and so on So the kinds of anointing operating in different seasons will vary But yeah, so that's just a big story Thank you, Pastor And Prince I hope it answers your first question The second question that Prince is asking is Since we can grow in the anointing, can we also ask and desire for anointing in specific areas we desire So we can do that, we can desire the anointing of God to increase in specific areas But as we stated earlier, it will only increase in the areas where we have the grace And the grace to do those things So if we desire to do something that we don't have the grace to do We will not see the mighty anointing of God the way we want on that particular ability So I just wanted to share that But if anyone else wants to add to that, please feel free to Prince, I hope that it answers your question If there's a follow-up question, you may please ask Okay, thank you Any other things about the anointing that you've been wondering about Please feel free to either unmute and ask Or you may also post your question in the chat Since we're talking about the grace and the gift of God and the connection to the anointing I was just thinking about how important it is for each of us to identify that As to what it is that God has called us for And to also discover the skills, the desires that God has put in our hearts To understand the way we are built and as the APC publication Fulfilling God's purpose for your life Even there we talk about how we discern what God has really called us for And that's such an important aspect for us to see the anointing of God flow in and through our lives Any other comments? Yes, Sam, please go ahead I'm not sure, in one of the slides I think you had mentioned the anointing comes at the baptism of the Holy Spirit But what about the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, that is when you put your faith in Jesus Or are you saying that the baptism is an enhancer or an increase? Thank you, Sam I just want to clarify Before that slide, we spoke about the anointing within that every believer has So when we are born again, we receive the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit And so the anointing is already in us So that is the first time that we receive the anointing or the initiation But then when we speak about the anointing upon Where we said that the anointing upon is the power of the Holy Spirit For us to do the works of God and the supernatural works of God Now that ability comes when we are baptized in the Holy Spirit So the anointing upon, we see that we begin to move in the supernatural When we are baptized in the Holy Spirit So I hope that clarifies it If there's any follow-up question, please do ask You muted Sam, in case, oh yeah So Sam has posted in the chat and he says, yes, thank you Great question Yes, I think, right, Molly on the chat asks I just wanted to know if there are any particular notes of video which we can read or hear So in our APC resources, I'm sure you'll find a lot of content on the anointing Molly So you could just do a search and that would help you But apart from that, we also have a specific course in our second year Which is Keys to Supernatural Ministry Where we do talk about the anointing and many other aspects that help us to flow in the supernatural So in that course, we will deal with the anointing in depth I hope that is helpful, Molly, please let us know So Sam, thank you Sam says, Pastor, could you also speak about laying of hands as a form of anointing And its significance, like in the letter to Timothy by Paul So laying on of hands is as we talked a little bit about impartation And so it would come under that category of the transfer of the anointing So when Paul talks about it and he talks about laying hands over Timothy That's what it refers to So the transfer or the impartation of the power of God on Timothy's life But I think I'll request Pastor Ashish if he could elaborate on this The laying on of hands as a form of anointing So this is scripture that anointing comes from God So no man is administering the anointing The anointing simply is the presence and the power of the Holy Spirit operating through us And the anointing comes from God The anointing is God the Holy Spirit upon us But what we do see in scripture is that God uses human agency to either activate train parts More of the anointing, more of the presence and power of the Holy Spirit You see it in both of the New Testament Especially for example in the Old Testament They would anoint somebody with oil physically and the Holy Spirit would come upon them An example would be when Samuel went to anoint David that he poured oil A physical anointing But it was God saying you are anointed The Holy Spirit is going to work in and through your life And so also in the New Testament we find a similar thing That God uses the laying on of hands as one of the ways Not the only way but one of the ways to impart anointing The anointing can be released for many reasons One is obviously for towards ministry So when Paul and the elders laid hands on Timothy There was prophecy, there was impartation of gifts And so that happened First Timothy 414, second Timothy chapter 1 verse 6 So there was that anointing in relation to ministry The anointing can also be released for other things Example to heal, to deliver It's the presence of the Holy Spirit being transmitted for healing, for deliverance So you lay hands on the sick, the anointing destroys the youth Or the anointing can also be transferred to cloths in that case In Acts 1911 when Paul laid hands on handkerchiefs That carried the anointing to heal and deliver people So in summary God uses human agency to impart Transfer the anointing for various reasons It could be for ministry, it could be for healing, deliverance and so on But laying on hands only one of the ways Not the only way through which this can happen The anointing can also be imparted through association By walking with somebody The anointing can also be imparted during the ministry of the world In Luke 5.17 Jesus is teaching And then the part of the Lord is present to heal So while the word is being proclaimed The anointing is also accompanying the proclamation of the Lord of God So there are many different ways Through which the anointing can be imparted For activation ministry or for healing or other purposes I hope that summary is exciting Thank you pastor and Sanu We hope it addresses your question If you have any follow-up questions You could please unmute and ask Yes pastor, thank you Thank you so much Also just a little bit about There is almost like a responsibility I guess to prophets or to elders To lay hands and be like the agencies Or the vehicles to initiate Activate anointment Or the presence of Holy Spirit in others But also I'm thinking on the other side As a receiver As someone who is receiving anointing Externally especially The role So one is obviously If I am someone who is receiving Or participating in such To align my heart And my To be sensitive to God's calling and presence But also I think Probably it's How does one safeguard or avoid Something Because I think it's two people Coming together and also asking God's presence What would go Like I'm just thinking if there's anything That would go wrong in that I don't know if there's a scripture of Not being too quick on laying of hands So either the anointer Or the one who is receiving anointing Is not ready And how do we avoid Or any thoughts on that Thank you Pastor please Yeah So So what's the person Who God is using to invite And the person who is expecting to receive Both have responsibility Like you correctly said So talking about this whole thing On the side of the recipient There has to be hunger That means we have to be desiring We have to be hungry Yes God can work In spite of it or apart from it Because he is sovereign But the normal process is The recipient also has to be desiring The Bible teaches us to covet Spirits and things The Bible teaches us that We are blessed and we hunger and thirst For the things of righteousness The person who is the recipient Should also be sowing to the spirit Delicious six nine Seven eight nine If the recipient is sowing to the flesh But then coming in To saying I want the spirit It's not going to work The law is you sow to the spirit If you want to reap of the spirit So that's a responsibility of the recipient So that's important That we are posturing ourselves correctly In order to both impart In order to receive What I see I think all of us would observe Where we go wrong Is presumption Presumption can happen in both ways The person Ministering Can be presumptuous And this happens often They say the Lord is going to make you a great apostle Or the God is going to make you A great prophet And all of those words have been spoken Presumptuously Very often Just to make the other person feel good Or make everything look nice In front of the audience But none of that is going to matter It all depends on the call of God On that individual So I can lay hands on somebody If God has called that person to be an evangelist Now I can prophesy Till the sun goes down Saying you're going to be a great prophet And you're receiving prophetic anointing But those words are empty Because it's not aligned to the call of God On that person Those words are presumptuous words There's no prophetic anointing coming on you There'll be zero prophetic anointing coming Because the call of God on that person Is to be an evangelist So that's presumption On the side of the person Ministering Similarly presumption on the side of the person Receiving Reception always happens aligned To the call of God on that individual's life I cannot give something I do not have I cannot give something that's outside The plan and purpose of God Of the individual Same thing on the side of the person receiving We only receive Aligned to the call and purpose of God So presumption happens there as well You know where the person thinks Oh I'm going to That person ministering is a prophet Therefore I'm going he laid hands on me Or she laid hands on me Therefore I became a prophet That's presumption A prophet can lay hands on you Like the prophetic elements in your life But the operation of the prophetic Will still be aligned to the call of God On your life So if you're called to be a worship Worship musician The prophetic will express itself In that way The prophetic dimension Or if you're called to be a pastor The prophetic will express itself In the pastoral differently Or the prophetic may express itself In the evangelistic depending on the call of God So that's where the presumption happens And so that's where we have to be careful I remember Anointing follows Grace, gift And call Like what does God call The anointing flows along In line with our ways I hope that helps Yes pastor, thank you so much There was a lot of takeaways Thank you Thank you Thank you pastor And thank you Sam We've almost come to the end Of our Mentoring hour Okay So Sam also says Great notes pastor Recipient hungers and cupids for the anointing And maintains correct posture to receive anointing Avoiding assumptions By both the anointer And receiver during anointing Should be a good practice The call of God is the most important thing Reception always happens In alignment with the call and purpose of God Anointing follows grace, gifts And the call of God Thank you Thank you Sam for summarizing What we just discussed And actually that word anointer That kind of I was like earlier We had talked about this And I think pastor Ashish also mentioned that the Though anointing To human agents Ultimately the anointing comes from the Lord So I don't know If we can call the human agent As the anointer But yes we get the point Thank you once again everyone We'll wrap up at this point I request one of us To please go ahead and lead and pray Before we close Yes Daniel please go ahead Amen God and Father we say thank you Father Ashish we thank you for yet another time I will pray that you will continue To help us to understand your word Thank you for this wonderful session Of studying your word We pray that you will help us You will continue to strengthen us In the mighty name of Jesus Lord let your name be praised Let your name be exalted Father we have studied your word We pray this hour that Lord Will not only be here of your word But will be a practical doer In the name of Jesus Father Lord we thank you this hour We bless you pray that you will prepare us For the next session In the name of Jesus We bless your name of God We give you praise we honor your name In Jesus mighty name we pray Thank you so much Daniel Thank you so much Daniel Thank you everyone God bless you Have a wonderful day And even as we have the Good Friday Easter services Be blessed and We pray that you will Draw closer to the Lord And have a very blessed time So we wrap up right here And we will connect again next week next Thursday Bye for now


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All right, so today it looks like we kind of had a red day today. It's Tuesday the week of What August August 17th 18. All right Yeah, 17 today is Tuesday the 17th and What we're looking forward to the rest of the week is a green week.  What do you think? red or green red or green Okay Yeah, today the market was down quite a bit Nasdaq The Dow in the S&P 500 and I believe 2000 Russell 2000 as well Mid-cap small cap. I mean We've got a We got to be paying attention right now even crypto For those of you that are meme doge coin lovers out there doge had a really good weekend, you know it got up to around what 35 cents and Now it's kind of leveled off. It's around 30 31 cents today at the close of the market, but I Just want to kind of say I've been saying this for several weeks Probably several months actually that we were due a crash We were due a pullback. We were due a correction and I think we're hey We're heading right into it now. Is this the timing on which I think right now. We're gonna have this huge crash I don't know I don't know I can hear my son. He so he might pop in at any moment, okay? If he does hey, we're gonna keep on rolling.  I'm not trying to give you a bunch of edits and commercialize this thing So I'll I'll tape in my bathroom I'll tape in the car I'll tape at the park I Tape at work in my office. I tape everywhere.  Is it to get ads on Google and make a bunch of money? No, that's not my goal My goal is is to teach people and to help I want people to get their finances to get better I want them to have an improvement on their bottom line. Amen So hey, that's not like I was preaching on. Amen. All right, so So here's what I would suggest during this time Make sure you do not have number one make sure that you do not have everything in stocks Everything all your money all your eggs in one basket if you have everything in stocks And even if you do make sure you've leveraged it and you've leveraged your risk in other words Say for instance for all you options players out there.  You've got some some risk management Okay, I Would number two I would suggest if you are in the stock market Be hooked up with some stocks that really really have performed and have a history of performance They might be a little bit more expensive. Maybe your growth stocks. I'm not saying you got some people that are growth stocks Love growth stocks. Some people look value stocks. Okay, I'm not gonna get into that debate during this season But I will say this hey Uh Amazon is going to still be around 10 years from now Microsoft is still gonna be around NVIDIA is going to be around Google is going to be around Or alphabet I should say Facebook is going to be around So make sure that you have a Party of portfolio in some solid companies that can endure the storm that we're gonna encounter when the correction hits Now that doesn't mean that they're gonna be there. They're not gonna get hit either. They will get hit They will do a good drop and that will be an opportunity for you to pick up more of their stock as it as you can get It as a discount, but don't be moved. Don't be shaking off the tree Okay, the tree is going to shake the tree is going to shake All right, I want to let you guys know that the tree will shake hold on to every branch So that you're not shaking off. All right Number three Commodities Commodities get some gold and silver Gold as that we all know that gold is a hedge against inflation It protects against inflation Okay, because what happens what happens when inflation goes up stock market gets hit Gold usually goes up along with inflation. So get you some gold You know, I hear that some people like well, where do I buy gold? Where do I buy gold?  I am not telling you what stocks to buy What gold to buy?  You can come to me Do your own research. What do I say all the time? What is my favorite saying? This is what I say all the time and that is if you don't learn you will not earn if You do not learn you will not earn. All right. So get out there and do your own research but Barrett gold Barrett gold GLD Or is it GLD the ticker symbol? Is a good place to park Barrett is solid. I would I would definitely do a little research on it, but I'm not telling you this is this I have some in Barrett, but I'm not telling you to go out and buy Barrett. Okay.  All right, and then grab a good ETF I have the VOO VTI Both are good ETFs the whole stock market S&P every the whole S&P 500 the whole entire stock market very very good ETFs averaging what 15 between 10 and 15 percent annually All right. So So make sure you have a good diversified portfolio during this season All right, and do not do not I would suggest That you you do not have your all your money on stocks right now. Listen retail investors Yeah, I'm telling you I'm telling you we're headed for a reversal the big reversal is coming and I would be it's definitely between September The beginning of September could be anytime between now and set the beginning of September and I'm it's I'm saying at least 10 to 15 percent Correction is coming Some people even feel like it's going to be 20 percent. All right, but hang in there. It's going to be okay All right. Remember buy on the dip buy on the dip when everything drops. That's your discount. That's your discount swoop up scrape up begin to Begin to just snatch all of that discount And here's what you can do plan right now look at companies that you're that you're interested in So that you and know how much they're dropping For example, I've got my eye on Microsoft. I've got my eye on Microsoft I already own some Microsoft, but I'm looking at it Because if the correction comes between now and September, guess what say it drops about 10 or 15 percent That's your opportunity to pick up a two trillion dollar company market cap company All right People are sleeping on Microsoft Microsoft. I really believe one day. It's going to be at $500 a share and I know some people like what are you keep talking about the CEO is wonderful He is absolute genius and what they are doing with the cloud With what they're doing with cloud and in the purchasing of a cybersecurity Companies and see this is what this is the future. They're looking way ahead and most people are going to sleep on Microsoft don't do it All right Okay, I think that's gonna be it for me to today I want to talk about inflation on my next video. Please. I will say this about inflation Do not listen to the CPI the federal CPI Consumer price index do not listen to that stat They're lying I'm just gonna be honest with you They are lying if they tell you it's at 5.4. It's at 7.4 If they tell you it's at 2.7. It's at 5.7. I Got a look at the CPI and what's going on, but I can tell you I believe the last reading was 5.4 listen to me You listen common sense when you go to the store aren't you paying more now than you were a year ago? Aren't you paying more now For a used car than a year ago Toilet paper. Are you paying now more now than a year ago eggs meat? milk juice diapers women's products men's cologne deodorant Aren't you paying more now? Look at the gas prices Folks inflation is increasing. I know they say it's transitory that it's basically transitory meaning if this is Seasonal or basically it's temporary that is not true with all my heart. I Believe with all my heart. Oh my heart Inflation is here for a minute And it's not going anywhere. Yes, there are some things in some areas that are deflationary Okay, I hear you. I hear you Kathy Wood. I'm a great fan of Kathy great fan of Kathy Wood Michael blurry, please bury. Please leave her alone. Why are you shorting her stuff? Why are you shorting this woman stuff? She's done an amazing job. Go Kathy.  I'm for you crush it I think she's right and she's on to something concerning innovation Innovation five platforms. Anyway read some of her items and her and her Read some of her whiteboard inch whiteboards and and what the great thing about her is that she's very transparent with all of her Her her her entire portfolio. It is very transformative. It is very transforming. She she's definitely transparent. I'm sorry I'm already trying to end this video as you can tell I'm trying to get all this in Let me calm down She's very transparent She's very transparent and she's an amazing investor and she is right concerning innovation Don't listen to all these old heads That have have no idea What the end of disruptive innovation is about They're not doing their homework I'm sticking with you Kathy arc k arc g arc f all of them She's already said she has a five-year plan. She's already told us Even last year that there was going to be a dip that there was going to be a correction on her etfs.  All right. Anyway, that was just my little plug for arc Arc investment and Kathy would thank you, but I will say I don't know if I totally agree with her on the inflation items because and look, okay, this woman She's a great mind graduated at usc Knows the economy understands it much better than I do But I'm just, you know, I'm I'm a real boy. I'm you know, I'm just your everyday guy I know yes. I I am I have a certain amount of Education but not on her level. I'm not even going to try that But there's some things you can look and see where the economy is going. You can see where the consumer is at Don't always listen to the data You know what you know what real true data is How about talking to people in the store? How about sparking up a conversation with somebody Sparking up a conversation with the with the cashier at Trader Joe's at Whole Foods Talking to people You'll find a you'll find out exactly what the consumer is saying Especially if you're going to markets in different areas So I'm in Los Angeles, but I live in Camarillo, California. So totally different environment totally different culture Talk to people That's how you can find out what's what's happening That's what that's how you will find out what is happening with our economy What are people thinking? What are they feeling? Survey the everyday person? All right, thank you. I want to thank you for joining me on dedicated to financial literacy Remember you will not earn if you do not learn I wish the best for you keep prospering have a prosperous second half of the year We are definitely almost closing out 2021. We got four more months yet crush it crush it didn't last last four months. Okay


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China considers a part of Russian land as its territory, Putin is powerless to complain about it. Chinese media outlets this week shared a new geographic map from China's state-owned standard map service that shows Russian territory as part of China, according to Newsweek Media Outlet. The map, which is said to have been approved by Beijing and was released by China's Ministry of Natural Resources, comes as Western observers have speculated that the relationship between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping has become strained. Earlier this month, the Institute for the Study of War-Think Tank wrote that China's public stance of neutrality in regard to Ukraine is causing a fissure between Beijing and the Kremlin. The new map will likely not help Russia-China ties, George Mason University-Shar School of Policy and Government Professor Mark Katz told Newsweek. The Kremlin very definitely pays close attention to Chinese maps, especially official ones, claiming that Russian territory actually belongs to China, he said. However, Katz added that if Putin is upset, he is not in a position to loudly complain about this since Moscow has become so dependent on economic relations with China as a result of Western sanctions. The 2023 geographic map indicates that Bolshoi-Ushuraisky Island on the Amur River is part of China. Russia and China disputed claims over the island beginning in the 1860s until the two nations agreed to divide the territory in a 2008 treaty, whereas the agreement gave the Western part of Bolshoi-Ushuraisky Island to China. The standard map service shows the entire island as Chinese territory.


The financial statements are prepared directly from the adjusted trial balance. The focus on this short video is the statement of owner's equity. After the income statement, we prepare the statement of owner's equity. This follows the income statement because net income is also included on this statement as net income increases owner's equity. So let's use the adjusted trial balance to complete the financial statements. We use owner's capital and owner's withdrawal from the trial balance and put that on the statement of owner's equity. Additionally, we will use net income from the income statement. The statement of owner's equity has the company name, the name of the financial statement, and the date which is always year-ended and then whatever the date is. This date is done exactly like the income statement. So the statement of owner's equity details the change in the owner's capital account for a period or range of time. Owner's capital from the adjusted trial balance is listed first. Then we add net income to increase owner's capital. Finally, we subtract owner's withdrawal, which decreases owner's capital. This gives us the ending owner's capital balance that will go on the balance sheet.


With this, let me show you the actual triple axis spectrometer at Dhruva. This is used for inelastic neutron flapping. I will come to this later again when I discuss specific techniques related to neutron. But here I just wanted to show you the photograph because here this large drum is the monochromotor drum. So, it contains the monochromotor at the center of it. You can see the monitor detector here which I discussed with you earlier and this is the collimator after the monochromotor. This is a goniometer you can see on the sample table. So, this goniometer because if you have a single crystal sample then you should be able to align this. After that there is a further collimator then this is the analyzer crystal. So, the analyzer crystal is sitting here and the detector rotates around the analyzer crystal and the analyzer crystal rotates around its own axis and this whole axis you can see can rotate. You can see the analyzer crystal can rotate this bottom yellow thing sorry yellow thing. It allows the rotation of the analyzer around the sample and this is a top arm. This allows the rotation of the detector around the analyzer crystal which detects the final neutron and finds out its energy and direction and this red thing is a beam catcher which is in line with the beam coming from the monochromotor drum. It's in line so that anybody travelling over here walking over here do not get any unwanted radiation. So, this is a typical triple axis spectrometer at Dhuba and such spectrometers are plenty and almost every major neutron source will have this kind of triple axis spectrometer. I told you earlier that Brockhaus, B.N. Brockhaus was the person who first introduced this concept of triple axis spectrometer and he was a Nobel Prize winner for his studies on inelastic neutron scattering. Now when I come to diffractometers which I told you here it is a much simpler geometry. I have shown you two powder diffractometers the way we in Dhuba this green table that you see and here this this blue arc actually they have position sensitive detectors inside them. There is no moving parts in these two diffractometers the beam comes on a sample which is here here it is here over here and then the diffracted beam goes into this fixed detectors over here and over here. The Q ranges this dictates actually depending on the wavelength what is the angular range and delta D by D gives us the resolution. So you can see they have got very similar Q ranges only this one has slightly better resolution because delta D by D is 0.3 percent is 0.8 percent. So this spectrometer which is powder diffractometer it is a magnetic powder diffractometer it is maintained by an organization known as UGCDE CSR and this is run by the solicit field division scientist in Abiotomic Research Center. Now this brings me to the fact that in a diffraction experiment or in any experiment one important thing is that we need to know of course the outgoing wave vector so that I know the wave vector transfer Q is equal to 4 pi by lambda sin theta and in case of in a seamless experiment along with that we also want to know the h cross omega which is the energy transfer between the neutron and the system. So we need to know the incoming energy and the outgoing energy for diffraction we do not need to know this incoming energy and outgoing energy but we need to know Q. So when I am looking for Q the fact is that sin theta I am doing a Q scanning because my aim is to get intensity as a function of Q in this experiment. So I need to scan Q that is why even the diffractometer showed that Q ranges how do I scan Q in case of a monochromatic beam lambda is fixed I keep changing theta, theta goes from it can go from few degrees to maybe 140, 150 even backscattering it can go up to 180 degree close to 180 degree in case of high resolution powder diffractometers in many spallation sources. So it is scanning by changing theta. Now we can also do the same scanning by keeping theta fixed and changing lambda. So I will be going from let us say here I go from small Q Q to large Q as I keep changing sin theta but if I go from small lambda to large lambda how I will tell you that if I do that then I go from large Q to small Q usually in case of a pulse source like a spallation neutron source the scanning is done by using a polychromatic beam so lambda is changing and the detectors are all fixed so theta is fixed. So basically I will show you later I Q versus Q if it looks like this in case of a reactor source in case of spallation source because it is the time of flight. Time of flight in the time neutron takes to travel over certain distance so when the time of flight is less neutron is more energetic so time will be less it will be a mirror image of this one I will show you the data later. So I am going from here it is large Q in this scan to small Q. So the time of flight spectrum in a spallation source is a mirror image of the intensity spectrum in a reactor source I will come back to it later. So as I told you that we can also scan Q by scanning lambda keeping the angle fixed and this is usually done in a spallation neutron source and I just show you one schematic of a spallation neutron source so here there is a 17 it is ICs at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory I am taking the example again and again because we have done lots of experiments there because today SNS at Oak Ridge is also an equally good source so anyway in this case I just give you the general concept that there is a proton beam here it is a 70 mega electron volts Linnac which feeds a 800 mega electron volt synchrotron and then the proton gets accelerated to 800 mega electron volt goes and hits the target and then there are instruments all around the target and there is one instrument which is an HRPT I will come to it later known as high resolution powder diffractometer in back scattering geometry. Now this is a schematic now spallation neutron sources has an advantage that it is not a reactor a reactor actually causes fission I mean a reactor uses fission to produce neutrons and then it is a critical assembly that means generation to generation the number of neutrons remains same and for safe reaction if it does not happen if it keeps increasing then it becomes a bomb and if it is does not if it is less than one the multiplication factor then the reactor will stop working it will be subcritical so there is subcritical critical and supercritical so we are always working in the critical region but you have to remember there are supercritical and subcritical regions and there are lots of regulations we have to follow in case of a spallation neutron source the target need not be uranium it can be a high Z material like tantalum zirconium and it need not be fissile material and of course the yield is maybe more in uranium because after spallation it can be followed by more fission by the neutrons which are produced in spallation but generally in many places for example in RL they use high Z materials like tantalum and so this is not a reactor like situation and regulations I mean much relaxed and much easier to handle but at the same time this needs a very high end technology like producing a proton beam of almost 800 mega electron volts means almost 1 giga electron volt energy so that's the challenging part and India proposes to have a spallation neutron source in future so I will get back to polarizers and time of flight and dispersive scattering a comparison in the next lecture


Global Connections. I'm Jay Fidel. This is Think Tech. We have Carl Baker, who was with Pacific Farm for a long time and who is well familiar with foreign policy of the United States. And we're going to talk to him about China, about America's relationship with China. It may not be as immediate as the burning of America in so many cities, but it is very important to America going forward. Carl, the relationship of China and America has been changing. That dynamic is visible, especially in moving with such speed one way, the other, and backward and forward under the Trump administration. How is it doing right now? I think it's incredibly bad at this point because everything is focused on a competition between the United States and China. You have the coronavirus, which we've turned into a competition between the US and China. We have Hong Kong, which is becoming a competition between US and China. We have the South China Sea, which there's accusations by the United States that China is trying to take advantage of the reduced capacity during the coronavirus to further consolidate its position in South China Sea. We have the Belt and Road Initiative, which the United States sees as a ploy by China to take advantage of other countries in the world. We have this whole range of issues. We have Taiwan that is considered a problem for the United States and China because of what the United States has done in terms of recognizing Taiwan. Of course, China refusing to let Taiwan participate in the World Health Assembly recently. There's a whole range of problems that are going on. We're not doing anything at this point the way it seems to make things better. That's pretty serious. I guess the question is, what are we going to do with all of these things going on? I guess you could unpack that into about 10 issues. I made notes that probably more than 10 issues is everything. It sounds like we're in a degrade mode. Some commentators have said we're in a cold war. We will be. Some commentators have said this keeps going on. We'll be in a hot war. It may not be a shooting war, but it could be a technology war. Gosh, who knows what? That's very sad because both countries would do better if they could collaborate. Is collaboration possible, Carl? I think it has to be possible. It's hard to see where we can collaborate right now because of all the disconnects. You're right. I mentioned all the political aspects and diplomatic aspects, but I didn't mention the trade and economic aspect because they're important to this whole trade war and denial of technology trying to keep Huawei out of the 5G development in the world, all that stuff. I think that we've got to figure out where we can collaborate. I think at this point, that's where we start because right now, we haven't done anything. We still have the trade agreement, which both sides have been reluctant to give up. Trump hasn't said that he's walking away from it. China hasn't said they're walking away from it, although China has not fulfilled its obligations based on the amount of agriculture goods that they were supposed to purchase. That's still a thread that's there, that there's still the opportunity for collaboration, but there's no visible progress that's being made. I think collaboration is still possible. We have to recognize that China is a strategic competitor, and yes, it's not going to be China accepting its role as number two. I think that's where the problem started for the United States, not just the Trump administration, but this is something that's been festering probably for the last couple of decades. The United States always said, well, China can be a part of the system as long as they don't try to get ahead of us. Now the sense is that China is trying to get ahead of us. It's now becoming a very nationalistic sort of thing on both sides. Of course, the Trump administration, America first policy, exacerbates that because everything is seen through national security and national promotion lens rather than the United States taking the high roads, showing what's better for the greater good of the world through international organizations and things like that. It's becoming very difficult, I think, to find areas of collaboration, largely because both sides are seeing this through a nationalist lens. Yeah, and Trump has exacerbated the arguments with China. I mean, I always thought that the tariffs were going to have an effect on the man in the street in China and the woman would say, why is the US so aggressive with us? Why is the US attacking us this way? Why is the US taking these aggressive steps against us? That's one thing, but then there's this distraction of COVID. COVID is a wrench. COVID stops everything, or at least a lot of things. China was preoccupied with COVID for at least 60 days, maybe 90. It probably still is, and COVID is changing China. And then in the middle of that, Trump begins blaming China for COVID, and China begins blaming the US for COVID. These things do not make for a rational, reasonable, civilized discourse. It seems to me that things are happening that drive a wedge even in an optimistic view of collaboration. Don't you agree? I agree. I mean, when this started, I said, well, there has to be collaboration. If you could find a way to collaborate on COVID-19, it would be so much better. In fact, it was really an imperative, and we haven't done it. We simply haven't done it. We've turned it into a diplomatic football almost that we're trying to get across our own goal here. So China has now taken the narrative and said, look, we're helping the rest of the world with all our assistance. Even locally here, there was the Chinese community in Honolulu actually delivered medical goods, masks, and PPE to people as a gesture of goodwill. And this is what China is doing. They're trying to use it as a tool for their marketing of themselves as becoming the world leader. And the United States has basically done nothing other than accuse China of starting the virus and demanding that they reveal the source of the virus, which of course, at one point, the Secretary of State Pompeo said, we have irrefutable or very hard evidence that it started in the Wuhan laboratory. Well, of course, we haven't seen that evidence. And those kinds of words certainly don't help us in any effort at collaboration. So China has taken it, and they've shown how they can collaborate with the other countries where the United States has been left with their politics and grievance on the international scene. Yeah, one footnote to that is that we live in a time where foreign policy is handled over tweets. And so in the old days, you can save face by making a statement directly to your counterparts in the other guys, foreign ministry or state department. Now you broadcast it to the world and that has an echo effect in a population of over a billion people. They all know what these machinations are both ways. So it's like you're playing to this huge public and you try to get residents with the public to support you. It's a passion play. But I wanted to ask you about the opportunistic thing here. There's an opportunistic thing. Just as some people in Honolulu sent masks to China, China has sent masks to the United States. And in each case, it's a play. It's almost theatrical. At the same time, when Trump has been dumping on World Health Organization, China has been approaching and getting close to it. Likewise, the United Nations and various committees in the United Nations, all of which seems to be very positive. China seems to be stepping into the breach where the US wants to be isolationist and turn inward and avoid contact outside, close its borders. China has reached out. China has done ostensibly altruistic things. And of course, the issue to me, and I would really like your thoughts on it, is this true altruism? Is this true reaching out? Or is this just a masquerade of opportunism? Yeah. And of course, it depends on your perspective on how you see it. Certainly, there's a competition in the rest of the world. And yeah, there's some people that really do see it as altruistic. There's Hansen in Cambodia. He would certainly say, yes, it's altruistic, and we really appreciate it. Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines would say the same thing. I think Prime Minister Morrison in Australia would probably give you a little different story. And of course, the European Union countries will give you, some European Union countries will give you a different story also, that they see it as China trying to take advantage of a diminished United States effort to be a leader and China trying to take that role for very nationalistic, very, very China-centric reasons, and that there isn't really this greater good, because China ultimately serves the Communist Party of China, and ultimately serves Chinese national interests. And they haven't been able to demonstrate, like the United States did for 70 years, that there really is a greater good, that all countries benefit from an international system that's free and free market and promotes individual freedoms and liberties. But that's where China is always going to have a problem, that they can't deliver that sort of thing. What they can deliver is what it looks like to be strong and what it looks like to have central leadership and central planning in a single message. And that's why it becomes so difficult for a free and open society like the United States to send consistent messages. When you look at what the United States government is producing in terms of strategic documents, in terms of strategic plans, they talk about collaboration with allies. They talk about benefiting society through their development assistance and through their foreign aid. And China does the same thing. But the problem for the United States is that you get this cacophony of messages, like you said, through the populist media, which China recognizes social media. They believe in social media because that's one way that they communicate. And so to communicate with them through social media by tweet or by Facebook post is a very important way that they hear these messages from the United States. And it becomes messy for the United States, where China, of course, doesn't have that problem because those Weibo tweets don't leave China. They stay in China. And so the rest of the world sees a single message from a centrally planned Communist Party of China delivering to the world. This is what China is doing for you. And so it's easy for some people in the world, I think, to be persuaded by what China is doing. And they look at the United States and they say, what a mess. The cities are burning. They can't control the coronavirus. Maybe that system that China has is better than the United States because the United States seems to be failing. And if people around the world come to believe that, A, you have this at least token altruism and you have a system that works that can solve problems fairly quickly because of the single message and the single leadership, then maybe that has an effect on the world order because people have fallen, as you said, for the last 70 years, the U.S. with all its, you know, tumultuousness, they follow the U.S. and like the U.S. for establishing a world order with a big heart and morality. So this what's happening in China is with all of their economic aspirations, you know, to be the number one power in what, five years or something, really quick time, and their ability to control people using power, control countries using power, you know, the Belt Road debt traps and all those things. That's an example of power. So the question is, how does this all affect the world order? Is the old liberal world order established by the presence of the United States around the world in 70 years? Is that gone now? Will the new world order be the Chinese world order? I think we're at a real risk of that happening because the United States now looks a lot like China because it's America first. You know, when you think about the implications of this theme of America first, oh, so it really is just your national interest that's making you do anything in foreign relations. And so there isn't this better good. There isn't this global aspiration that we're trying to make the world a better place. We're simply trying to make the United States a better place. And if that means that we have to break an alliance because you won't pay for keeping U.S. troops in a country, then so be it. You know, and we're gone and we're leaving because you don't want to foot the bill. And we don't want to foot the bill because it's not in our national interest in a very narrow sense of us maintaining that military alliance. And our foreign aid isn't going to be given to people just without any obligation back to us. So yeah, I think that that is the real bottom line risk that we're facing is that the world sees the America first policies, which are very narrowly American nationalist oriented, and you see China doing the same thing. And yet China is willing to provide assistance, you know, and the whole idea that you bring up about debt trap diplomacy, you know, that's very much an American trope that's being put out there. Not all the countries that are receiving Belt and Road Initiative money see that as a debt trap. In fact, there's a growing bit of literature in Southeast Asia and South Asia that says, you know, the United States is picking on that port in Sri Lanka every time, you know, and they keep using that same story about how this is debt trap diplomacy. But the fact is, is that that port is actually serving Sri Lanka. They have actually developed some infrastructure around that port and China isn't taking it over that it actually is benefiting Sri Lanka. You know, and so I think that we need to be careful and that gets back to our whole strategic competition issue. You know, I think that we need to the United States needs to recognize that, yes, China does have infrastructure and yes, China does build infrastructure. The United States is never going to build infrastructure for countries. It never has. It's not it's not what the United States does, but what United States can do. And what again, what some of the planning documents talk about in their Indo-Pacific strategy is exactly that is talking about how can we facilitate real investment in these countries. And that's sort of my hope of how we prevent this thing deteriorating into a competition of of narrowly self-interested states, United States and China competing with each other and into something that is actually beneficial for the world that the United States actually finds a way to to build on what the what the Chinese are doing with their infrastructure development and and help these societies actually build industries and and economies around this infrastructure so that everybody does benefit and we get back to the notion of of being interested in the greater good in development for the sake of development and for rising raising people out of poverty and into a better life. You know, but to do that these days, you have to have mostly American business people, mostly American representatives traveling around the world, meeting people, vetting possibilities and projects, making loans, stimulating relationships and all that, and in the wake of COVID with the notion and I think this is inherent in the reopening notion. When the government, when the federal government talks about reopening, it's not talking about reopening of the global economy, it's talking about reopening of the national economy and I think if we're going to do reopening, we should what do you think we should do opening reopening of the global economy to do exactly what you were saying, right? Yeah, I mean that's right. I mean and you're right. I mean, I don't even sure we're talking about a national economy. We're pushing it on the states and on the local communities to open. So it's hardly even a national opening. It's almost everybody for themselves. You know, much like it was when it came time to try to find masks and personal protective equipment, go ahead, states, you're on your own because we're not interested in your problems. We'll be there if you ask us, but otherwise you're on your own. So in some ways it's so inward looking that we aren't even thinking at the national level. We don't really even really have a national plan for reopening. We have these vague guidelines which were reduced from supposedly from a 90-page document to a 10-page document or something because well we can't be bothered with the details. So yeah, so you're trying to take that next step and say let's think about how do we restart the world and first of all we need to probably think about how do we restart the United States' role in the world and stop trying to figure out how to get ourselves out because you mentioned earlier the fact that China has taken on so much of the UN's participation and in fact they are now, they control more UN departments and agencies than any other country. And we've sort of let them do that. We've sort of let them and for whatever reason, they almost got the intellectual property office from the UN and the United States fought back and we prevented that. But the fact is, is that China has been very aggressive because they see this as their opportunity, a weak America based on a very narrowly defined national interest by the United States and they've taken advantage of it. And I think this is, if you want to talk about the new Cold War, the new Cold War is not about military competition. That's just a distraction. What's the real competition is can the United States regain its role as a leader and a promoter of the greater good based on individual liberties, based on market economies, based on democracy. And I think that that has become, as you said at the beginning, a very huge challenge because of what we've done. The documents are there. If you look at what the Trump administration and really it was Congress that passed the legislation to talk about how we fuse economic development and foreign assistance. And talked about how do we promote economic development through loans and through helping people access private capital. And those are the kinds of things that we need to think about, is how do we actually engage all that money that's floating in the system that's been pumped into the system after COVID-19? How do we move that money into, as you say, a true international global effort to raise the economic well-being of the world, not just of the United States, not just of Honolulu, but of the whole world? How do we do that? And I think that there's an opportunity, but it's going to take collaboration. It's going to take a recognition that China does have a place in this world and that we have to acknowledge that China is not going to become number two and a handmaiden of the United States. It's going to be its own entity and that there are problems with China that you do have to deal with intellectual property and you do have to deal with technology, but you can't hide from it. You can't build a wall to keep that out. You've got to deal with it as it is, not for what you want it to be. And what that takes is a better idea to provide cybersecurity, to provide access to technology. And you can't deny a company like Huawei from trying to get people to buy their equipment. The world is too connected. You can't do that anymore. That's something that might have worked in 1914, but it's not going to work in 2021. And so I think that's where we need to go, but it's going to take a recognition. And even if you have a new administration in the fall, the United States has certainly fallen into this mindset that it's a strategic competition between China and the United States. And I think what has to happen to be successful is the United States has to go back and think about what it means to have allies, not military allies, but allies who actually are committed to a free and open society in the world. And that means you have to collaborate with the Europeans. You have to collaborate with the Japanese and the Koreans and the Australians and the rest of the democratic world, India, and build this better alternative to this nationalistic mindset. And then you'll see the poverty of the Chinese system. But you're not going to see the poverty of the Chinese system if you continue to try to compete at a global level between the United States' national interests and China's national interests. Yeah. Why does the name Joseph S. Nye Jr. come to mind when you talk like that about soft power and smart power? Is what you're talking about an extension of that idea? Yeah, I think it is. I think Joe Nye has a tremendous ability to articulate in fairly simple language, complex ideas about power, I think. And really, I think what we're seeing in today's information society is we need to think about what information really represents today. And that's what I think he recognized a long time to his credit, a long time ago, that the American capacity to lead was always based on this idea of power in a much more refined sense. I think if you think about the implications of a global war or a strategic war between major powers, what are you going to use nuclear weapons and destroy the world? Imagine how we reacted to COVID-19. What would we do with a nuclear blast somewhere of all the fallout that you would have to deal with? And the absolute destruction of the environment if you look at a massive military campaign. So I think that we really need to start thinking about how you fight a war in information society and the information age. And that war becomes a war of influence, getting back to Joe Nye's idea. It's a war of influence. And it doesn't have to be bloody. And it doesn't have to involve killing machines, but it involves winning people's hearts and minds in a serious way. And that, I think, is the future of competition between the United States and China. And it can be very productive. It can be very, very helpful in the way that that competition is helpful. But if you continue to focus on this narrowly defined national interests and concerns about military dominance and all that sort of 19th century, 20th century mindset, then I think everybody loses. And it has to be nuanced. It has to be subtle sometimes. It has to have a consistent, thoughtful pattern to it. I mean, for example, in the case of Hong Kong, the administration recently punished Hong Kong for the trouble it has had with China. And I wondered if that was a good idea. That was not, seemed to me, that was not thoughtful. And that an appropriate soft power, smart power approach would have been something way different from that. Do you have any thoughts on that? Yeah, you're right. I mean, I, you know, what we're trying to do by taking away the special status of Hong Kong is ultimately going to hurt Hong Kong. It's going to hurt the people in Hong Kong. It's not going to hurt China. China can live without without Hong Kong as a financial center. It was important for China as it was developing. But as the Yuan has made some inroads into a currency that can be used for trade, the dollar has become less important, which was really what Hong Kong represented to China was a source of capital for development in China. And so, yeah, there certainly is a way. Now, I haven't really thought about what that better way is to answer your question. I mean, and you're exactly right. That's the area. These are the areas where we need to think and we need to think deeply about how do we really win the influence? How do we really show that we support the people of Hong Kong in their drive for democracy and in their drive for maintaining and independence from the central, the central planning of the Chinese government? And that, I think, is where better minds than mine should be at work thinking about how do we do that? How do we show the rest of the world? And I think there was some news pieces that said that we were on the cusp of being able to do that with the G7. And now, of course, that's all been thrown into disarray because we decided we wanted to invite Russia. Well, Russia is not going to support anything like that. But I think those are the areas where we find like-minded countries that make statements to China, that make statements about what we can, what we should expect from Hong Kong and what we will not accept in Hong Kong. And it doesn't have to involve threatening, cutting off special measures. It doesn't have to involve the threat of military force. Military force is a very blunt tool and ultimately is a very difficult tool to use because it's so blunt. And so I think those are the kinds of things we should do is we should be looking at, again, those countries that I just mentioned, and think about how do we articulate our demands to China? And if China faces that sort of global resistance, then it backs away. It has to back away because it recognizes that it can't do that because there has to be consequences. But if the consequences are only consequences that are rooted and based in American interests, then China can look the other way and say, look at Minneapolis, which is exactly what they did. They said, what are you guys talking about? You guys double standards. All this stuff that plays so well in the rest of the world. This whole China as the sort of avant-garde of the third world is still there. They can still use that as part of their toolkit when it comes to information promotion. And that's where the United States has always been weak because it doesn't do that. And it doesn't even less nowadays. And that's where I think we have to really think about collaboration. And we have to think about if you're going to combat a significant power, and China is a significant power, then you have to think about how do you really use your old alliances and build them into something that is based on information society and not based on industrial oil guzzling machines. And I think that's the area that is ripe for fresh thought and fresh thinking once we move past the whole mindset of America first. Oh gosh, Carl, what I get out of this whole discussion is this is really, really, really important to the future of every one of us, to the future of the country, to the future of the world. It must be addressed. And if it's not going to be addressed in this administration, let's hope for an administration that will address it. And we'll have these thoughts and take these steps. Thank you so much, Carl Baker. Really appreciate it. I hope we can revisit with you as time goes by. Because it's one thing I can guarantee. There will be more. There will be more. And I think it's not it's not over yet, but we certainly need to move smartly. Thank you so much, Carl.


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