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Xi Jinping's Third Terms
Taiwan is not at all like Hong Kong. On polling Americans now care about this issue way more than they used to. The Chicago Council did a poll in 2021 that showed that for the first time more than half of Americans thought that if the Chinese moved against Taiwan, the US should deploy its military in response - 52%. Okay. So that brings us to this question of Xi Jinping is now in beginning his third term of eight years? Is that what, have I got that right? Wait. Is there, is there that can't be right? He's not term limited because he gets to do more or less whatever he wants to do. But there is an expectation five years five years
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