 Chinese lockdowns. God, it's only getting worse in China. It is truly unimaginable how bad it is. There is an entire province, Xi Jinping, or something like that, that has been locked down now for months in spite of the so-called loosening up of the zero COVID policy in China. Now you have Beijing on the edge of being quarantined and locked down. You've got Guangzhou, really the industrial and productive center of China in the south close to Hong Kong. They are now being ground to a halt because of COVID restrictions. The Chinese economy is taking a massive beating because of this. The Chinese are taking a massive beating as a consequence of this. The economy is taking a beating. Of course people's lives are being destroyed or being harassed by being forced to be locked down for days, weeks, months on end. I think the culture in China is taking a beating. As we said, the economy is taking the beating. It's going to be interesting politically if Xi and his cronies, how well they survive all these COVID shutdowns and how well they do moving into the future, but it does not look good for China. China is a massive problem, a massive challenge. Of course they could solve this with vaccination. They at least could solve the fear of millions of deaths and fear of hospitals. They won't do that because they won't take the technology without owning the technology. They won't actually embrace the vaccines unless they get to own the technology and Moderna and Pfizer standing up to them and not allowing them to just steal the technology. There's something through this that's unthinkable. I think one of the interesting things about this, one of the really, really interesting things about this, I do not think by the way that the Chinese are doing this on purpose. I do not think the Chinese are doing this in order to control their population. They already had massive controls over the population. They already were monitoring much of what they did. They already had the cameras and the social scores and all of that. This is not about control. This is a massive failure of the Chinese regime. They know it because it hurts their economy. It hurts their ability to project power. It's going to hurt their investment in things like chips. It's going to hurt their military strength. It hurts everything. There's no advantage that the Chinese central government has from these lockdowns. At least I find it fascinating that so many conspiracy theories still exist around COVID. It doesn't really exist. There was no COVID. COVID isn't a big deal. Or that COVID was somehow imposed on us by the Chinese. And yet who is the biggest sufferer for COVID? By far the biggest sufferers from COVID are the Chinese. They've had more lockdowns. Their economies have slowed more. They have recovered less. They have lost more GDP. They have lost more. A few deaths, but that has come as a massive cost. If COVID is a scam, if COVID never existed, if COVID is not dangerous, then you must conclude that the Chinese are absolutely, unequivocally stupid. And I don't think that's something one can easily conclude. Show your appreciation. You can do that by going to youronbookshow.com slash support. By going to Patreon, subscribe star, locals, and just making an appropriate contribution on any one of those channels. Also, if you'd like to see the Iran Book Show grow, please consider sharing our content. And of course, subscribe. Press that little bell button right down there on YouTube so that you get an announcement when we go live. And for those of you who are already subscribers and those of you who are already supporters of the show, thank you. I very much appreciate it.