 will China threaten the US or other Western countries militarily in the future? I mean, that's a pretty open-ended question. I don't know what in the future means. Is that next 20 years, and next 100 years, and next 1000 years? I don't know. I would say that in the next 20 years, it's very unlikely that China will threaten militarily US and Western countries. I think for a number of reasons. One, is China is too poor to do it in a significant way? It just doesn't have the technology to do it. I think that the trends in China towards more authoritarianism, which would lead them to be more aggressive, are also trends that are going to lead to China becoming less wealthy because authoritarianism leads to lack of creativity and ultimately destruction economically. So I think China is not on the ascend but on a descend. I think economic growth in China is declining, is not declining. The rate of growth is declining, and the reason is that so much freedom has been taken away from the Chinese. That is, we're going through a period right now, the last three or so years, where freedom in China is shrinking. And I think that won't mean economic success in China will shrink, which means that they won't get as wealthy as fast as they think, which means their military buildup is going to have to wait significantly. And they have a lot of internal pressures. They have a lot of internal challenges, which involve, for example, the fact that many people, many, many, many people, hundreds of millions of people still poor, these people want to become middle class. If the Chinese economy stutters, how do they become middle class? What facilitates that? Nothing really facilitates it. So China's facing a lot of challenges unless it decides to free up its economy, allow for more political and economic freedom in a dramatic way. And free countries, I don't worry about free countries from a military perspective because I don't think they are threats. So one path is it becomes free and therefore it's not a threat to the United States. Other path is it becomes authoritarian. But as it becomes authoritarian, it becomes less powerful militarily and it becomes less of a threat to the United States. The United States has such a military technological advantage over the military forces of the Chinese and the Russians that I really do not think we have anything to worry about. Also, both of the regimes in China and in Russia are regimes that are not interested in committing suicide. We're not going to get into a nuclear war with China because the Chinese don't want to die. So I don't think China is a big military threat. Now, the one threat that I can see happening is China getting into economic trouble and China invading Taiwan to distract people. And then the question is, does the U.S. go to war with China to protect Taiwan based on its treaties or doesn't it? Or does it just, in a sense, give Taiwan to the Chinese? I think given the fact that China is a nuclear power, I think at the end of the day, the United States falls and lets China have Taiwan. We impose sanctions. We don't have trade with them. We shake our finger at them. But I don't think we actually go to war. And I don't think the Chinese are interested in war. I think they're interested in expanding their scope of influence in Asia. I think they want to be the dominant power in Asia. I certainly think they are very, very motivated to expand their economic ability because they've got this hundreds of millions of people who are poor, who they want to bring out of poverty, and they're afraid of revolution if they don't bring them out of poverty. And I just don't see them as a military threat to the United States. And indeed, their economic interests, they, I think, understand better than many in the West, that their economic interests are tied to trade, that tied to keeping the shipping lanes open, that tied to indeed the success of the West and the United States as trading partners with China and that they don't win from war. So I just don't see it. And Chinese history is not a history, a military expansion, particularly not beyond certain borders. I mean, you could see them getting into a war with Vietnam. You could see them getting into a war with Taiwan. You can see them getting into a war, you know, maybe even with Russia over, I don't know, mineral rights in Mongolia or something. But I don't see them getting into a war with the West in the 20 years, 20 years into the future. Beyond that, I cannot make predictions. What do you think is going to happen to the United States of America if we keep going this way? If we keep going this way, total collapse. But I still think that we won't be going this way. That what will save this country is not its intellectuals, but the people. Because they've rebelled already without much intellectual prodding, that they've already becoming aware of the fact that we have to go to the right and not more welfare states. That's a great, great tribute to the intelligence of the people. Only I want to make something clear. I'm not a conservative. I think that today's conservatives are worse than today's liberals. I think they are, if anyone destroys this country, it will be the conservatives, because they do not know how to preach capitalism, to explain it to the people, because they do nothing except apologize and because they're all altruists. They're all based on religious altruism. And on that combination of ideas, you cannot save this country. The trouble with this country is that it was based on the right philosophy originally by the founding fathers, but they did not have a moral code to match the political ideas which they had. You love this country, don't you? Passionately. Very, very much. And consciously. I love it for its ideas. And I've seen enough of the other side, so I can appreciate this country. You, my riba.