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Jeff J. Brown: This is Jeff J. Brown China Rising Radio Sinoland and I am going all the way across the Atlantic Ocean down to the equator in Central America to Panama to say hello to my good friend Don Hank. How are you doing, Don?

Don Hank: Okay. How are you, Jeff?

Jeff: I’m doing great. I think this is Don’s fourth show. Every time he comes on, they’re just brilliant. And he knows so much. He speaks, reads, and writes fluent Russian. And of course, he’s in Panama and so he speaks Spanish. He also spent three years in Taiwan Province learning Chinese. So he’s quite the polyglot. But he also has a very extreme passion for Palestine and the plight of the Palestinians. So we’re covering some really interesting information today, but so great to have you back on.

Don: Thanks. Great to be here.

Jeff: Hey, Don, just give us you know, you are on Ukrainian and Russian websites all day and night. Your Substack every day is like a newspaper. It’s so complete. It has so much information. Just give us a What do you think’s going on in Ukraine? What do you think’s going on, on the line of contact in Ukraine with Russia? Just take it away. A lot of us would like to know.

Don: Okay. Recently, another wonder weapon was added to the Russian arsenal. First of all, they have these tremendous hypersonic missiles that cannot be shot down. Of course, the Ukrainian lying news agencies all say, oh, we shot down another one of those hypersonic missiles, which is scientifically impossible which is okay. And that gets picked up here in the West which copy pastes everything that they say. All these lies get repeated here in the West. So they had these hypersonic. What else do they have? They have air superiority. They knocked out almost every single aircraft in the Ukrainian arsenal.

And they have superiority over the entire West in military-industrial production. They can make at least three times as many artillery shells as the entire West, all of the United States, which makes very little, all of Europe. And the experts tell us, military experts tell us that the most important factor in whether you win or lose a war is the number of shells that you expend on the battlefield compared to the number that your enemy has expensed. And this is a constant. They can’t get more than one-third of the shells that Russia expensed. So these are tremendous advantages that Russia has. It has the air superiority, the hypersonic, and now they’ve added this thing called a bomb, a family of bombs called the FAB.

Jeff: Yeah, the FABs

Don: That’s right. And they have the FAB500 which is big enough as it is. Then they have the 1500 and they have this fabulous three-ton bomb. And it can just blow up bunkers underground bunkers. You just drop a three-ton bomb on that and you’re going to kill everybody in there.

Jeff: So the 500 and the 1500 and the 3000 represent kilograms. That’s 3000kg, 1500 kilograms, 500kg, which is already huge.

Don: Yeah. I don’t know if that refers to the amount of TNT. I don’t think it does. But I mean big enough. Big enough to do the job. So, I got all this stuff going for them. So right now, because of the use of the new bomb and everything else that they have, they also have about three times as many male troops as Ukraine. Now Ukraine is adding these newly mobilized men which means they’re kidnapped off the street and forced to scream and kick to the front where they know they’re going to die or they believe they’re going to die. And by the way, they’re these Ukrainian troops are surrendering in droves. They try to stop them. There’s a battalion known as the Kraken, these old sea monsters called the Kraken.

Jeff: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Don: These guys don’t get involved in the fight. They just stand behind the regular troops and they shoot them in the back if they think they’re going to try to surrender.

Jeff: And that’s how you build the esprit de corps and morale in the troops.

Don: Yeah, nicely stated.

Jeff: Tell me about the F16s. What’s going to happen?

Don: Well, that’s a good thing you mentioned that. This morning, I read that they spotted an F16 flying over Odesa, but it was not headed anywhere in Ukraine, it was headed out of Ukraine toward Moldova. And this tells me something they don’t really trust keeping F16s in the country in Ukraine. In fact, they don’t send them. They absolutely will not send them anywhere near the front lines, because the front lines are just replete with Russian air defenses, and they will shoot them down in no time at all.

Jeff: With their S300s and S500s.

Don: S400s.

Jeff: Yeah, S400s.

Don: And they fancier which is a hybrid between canons and rockets. So they have everything. They’ve got layered defenses. And of course, the Ukrainians know this they’re not going to get anywhere near. I don’t think I personally wonder whether they’ll actually ever get one off the ground, because not only all this, but the Russians are also busy plowing up. That’s the words they use.

Jeff: In Russian, they call it Plowing.

Don: Like plowing the airfields. They dropped these huge Iskander missiles. Now they can’t get close enough to use their bombs because that would put their pilots in danger. But they use these Iskander missiles. And the Iskander missile right now, they’ve stepped up production of this thing hypersonic. So they have lots of Iskander, and they’re working all the time.

Jeff: Yeah. I see your daily report, I mean, not a day that goes by that they’re not pounding Ukraine with hypersonic missiles, it must be devastating. But let me ask you this. I am personally frustrated that Putin I think probably has the patience of the job and it’s not just him I’m sure, he listens to his military men. He listens to his generals, he listens to his military committee and I’m sure they’ve agreed to do this just a couple of 300m every day or 100m today, 150m tomorrow. And they’re just taking village after village after village. But why so slow? I mean, what do you think the deal is?

Don: I thought you were going to say why so fast because it was a lot slower before.

Jeff: Yeah, that’s true.

Don: Now that they got the F-16s coming and they’ve got newly mobilized men adding to the troops. They’re actually going a lot faster than before. I don’t know what I mean by before, because I have no sense of how many months it was before they were going at a slower pace, but things are really picking up now and it’s a 1200-kilometer front line.

Jeff: Yeah, line of contact. Yeah.

Don: I really think they’re doing the very level best that they can under those circumstances.

Jeff: Are they coming from Belgorod province to the north? Are they coming down from there to go to try to Kharkiv? Are they coming in from the north at all?

Don: I’m pretty sure they are. In fact, they’re hitting Kharkiv and they’re also going to another oblast or region to the north of Kharkiv and that would be Sumy. They’re actually going in there and they’re using, I think, some of their wonderful bombs because they can go right up to the border, release the bomb, and then go back and avoid being shot down. So they actually are moving very fast really. Well, it takes a lot to knock out a village, a whole village, especially a big city, and because what happens is that the Ukrainians go in there and they take over every single high rise, every single home. They kick out the inhabitants and they move in with their equipment and their cannons or artillery. And so, the Russians have this huge job of going from almost from one building to another to knock them out.

Jeff: And these are civilian buildings like a park.

Don: Yeah, but the civilians are all gone.

Jeff: Yeah, the civilians are all gone.

Don: They kicked them out.

Jeff: Wow. What about reports that the Ukrainians are using chemical weapons/biological weapons? That’s been reported by the Russians as has there been any, or do the Russians have the equipment that they need to try to protect themselves, or how does that work?

Don: I don’t know. I only see the headlines. I don’t read beyond the headlines because, I mean, if they have biological weapons, then they do. And that’s not much more detail that you need than that.

Jeff: Yeah. But do you think they are using them? I think they’ve been talking about they’ve actually been using chemical weapons now for over a year.

Don: I’m not picking up on any of that, but my focus is on the airstrikes.

Jeff: Okay, on the airstrikes.

Don: When I’m reading through those things, I often accidentally come across the front-line information also. And I like to listen to Alexander Mercouris.

Jeff: Yeah, yeah. He’s very, very good. Let me ask you this there’s a new minister of defense, and he surprised a lot of people because he’s actually a numbers guy. He’s a brilliant economist and brilliant in finance and economics. And then I noticed that they’re now bringing in for questioning and arresting several high-level officers even generals, I think in the Russian army for corruption. So do you think that’s connected? Do you think that’s maybe why Putin asked him to get in there to clean up the military?

Don: I think it’s why. Right.

Jeff: Okay. All right.

Don: But that’s a very sad story. Even Shoigu, why is Shoigu involved in this? Is he corrupt too? I really don’t know. And they’re not going to tell you too much. They’re not going to talk about their own problems.

Jeff: For those of you who don’t know, Shoigu was the former minister of defense and he was there for quite a while. He’s actually a Buddhist. He’s from Tuva, Russia, which is Buddhist. So he’s actually a Buddhist. But he’s still in the government someplace. He’s got some role. I forgot where he is now.

Don: I don’t know either.

Jeff: I saw a little quick video. Maybe it was from your website or from your Substack that I clicked on and the Minister of Defense, the new Minister of Defense was talking to these guys about this little project and there was like a plan up on a wall and stuff. And of course, it was being subtitled in English because I can’t understand a word of Russian. And he was saying, you’re responsible for this project and if you fail, it’s your fault. And if you go over budget, it’s your fault. And he said, you will pay a price. You’re responsible.

So apparently, he’s cleaning up the military. Of course, that’s something that the US and NATO need to do because that’s the biggest corruption snake pit in the world is NATO. So what do you think’s going to happen? I mean the summer is winding down. Winter’s approaching. Are they going to continue this same few hundred meters a day, village by village, village by village? I noticed on the map on South Front, southfront.org. I’m sure you have better maps than I do, but they’re not moving at all towards Odessa. Are they? And I’m just not seeing it.

Don: I think they’re going to sneak up on Odessa, and I don’t think there’s going to be much fighting because Odessa has a lot of pro-Russian partisans. And I think that’s what they what they’re saying they’re going to do. They’re going to take it slowly and just kind of inch their way in there. Same with Kharkiv. They may not even try to take Kharkiv at all, which is a city, but they’re taking Kharkiv Oblast, the region.

Jeff: And why would they not want to take the city? Would they just let the people rebel against the Kyiv government? Or how would that work?

Don: Well, they have their ways. Russia likes to sit back and let them come to them offensively and stay on the defensive so they can stay alive and kill more Ukrainians. That’s basically that’s been the way they’ve handled this war so far.

Jeff: Well, I know that one of the reasons that they moved so slowly is, is that the Russian military goes out of its way to not hurt civilians.

Don: Yeah, and not hurt their own people, their own soldiers.

Jeff: And their own soldiers. So they’re trying to protect the civilian Ukrainian/Russian population in the Donbas. But what do you think’s going to happen when they finally get to what was the line of demarcation the official political boundary for Donbas? Do you think they would stop there or are they going to keep going towards Kiev?

Don: I don’t think they’ll stop. The thing is, they have to de-nazify and they have to demilitarize. That means they have to do a lot more than what they’re pretending to do or claiming that they’re going to do.

Jeff: Okay.

Don: I actually can see all of Ukraine at some point being full of peacekeepers, Russian peacekeepers. I don’t think they’re going to let those people roam free. They have to clamp down. They have to keep them under their thumb. But that’s my idea. You keep reading about how the Hungarians are going to take part in Ukraine.

Jeff: Poland is going to take the old Galatia.

Don: But I don’t know if that’s going to happen. I don’t see that happening because one of the reasons they’re there is because they need a buffer state or what they call a sanitary zone. And that’s very important to the Russians. I don’t see how they could put any part of Ukraine in anyone else’s hands, especially a NATO member.

Jeff: Yeah. The problem is any if there’s one square meter someplace that’s still officially Ukrainian, NATO is going to keep sending in arms and military missiles and planes and tanks and everything else.

Don: It can’t happen. I don’t think they’ll let that happen.

Jeff: Yeah, it seems like they have to get the Russian border all the way to Poland, Slovakia, Hungary. I mean, I’m going down the map. Romania, Slovakia, and then Moldova to be literally Russia to NATO because if there’s any Ukraine in the middle, then they’re just going to be continuing to just pour in arms to attack Russia. What I keep expecting is, is that it’s so dire for the Ukrainians, there was even talk that a couple of the generals, maybe about a month ago were telling Zelensky that they wanted to basically stop fighting and cut a deal with the Russians that they were tired of their men being slaughtered like dogs. And I just keep thinking will there ever be like just a breaking point when the Ukrainians just collapse and then basically just give up? I mean, I don’t know. What do you think?

Don: Yeah, it might happen pretty soon actually. They’re either going to collapse or the military might take out Zelensky. I don’t know.

Jeff: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Of course, for those of you who don’t know, Zelensky is under the control of a bunch of Nazis, the Azov people, and literally like SS people that have roots in Nazism going back to World War Two.

Don: And so not to mention the Nazis in Washington.

Jeff: Yeah, that’s for sure. That’s for sure. Well, I am optimistic but it’s just it’s so frustrating. I just look at that. Is there a better map than the southfront.org? Which one do you use that shows the line of contact like a daily update on the line of contact? Do you have a favorite map that you use?

Don: No, I actually don’t. I probably should follow your advice and go with South Front.

Jeff: Yeah, it’s so frustrating. And you are right there. Six months ago, a year ago, I mean there was just like they would go for weeks and almost no advancement. It would take him weeks to clear out a village or whatever. And now it’s almost like a village every day.

Don: But it was always a lot of advancement in the sense of enemy killed.

Jeff: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah killed.

Don: The main goal at one time.

Jeff: Well, let’s shift to the greatest humanitarian catastrophe probably in history at least of our modern era and that is Palestine. And what I call us Usraehel. The US-Israeli genocide machine. You follow very closely and what do you feel is going to happen after the embarrassing speech that Netanyahu gave in front of the fourth time and he got more standing ovations than Jesus Christ? And just tell us what you think’s going to happen. I mean, things are moving fast. Hania was killed in Tehran. And then another gentleman from Hezbollah high ranking was killed, I think, in Lebanon. So what do you think’s going to happen?

Don: Well, I don’t think Netanyahu will ever change. Whatever he’s doing now, he’s going to continue to do it. Is our time about us up?

Jeff: No, no, no, we can talk as long as we want. There’s no time. I’m just pouring some tea. This is my beat-up thermos. And I’m finishing my tea. There’s no time limit unless you have time.

Don: This is good Chinese.

Jeff: This is Chinese tea, by the way.

Don: What kind of tea is that?

Jeff: This is a special white tea from Hunan Province. A special white tea from Hunan province. Mao Zedong’s home province. And it’s quite good. Well, have you heard these stories that the IL69 the Russian military transport plane? I think it’s called the IL69 or the IL72 or something like that.

Don: Yeah, the Aleutians.

Jeff: Yeah. The Aleutian. There are a number of IL60 Aleutians that are landing in Tehran from Russia. Do you have you heard about that?

Don: I hope it’s true. I did catch wind of that. Somewhere, I read about it and I just hope it’s true. I’m sure that the Russians aren’t going to admit it. So I won’t be able to find a lot of information about that. But I hope they send a lot of air defense systems.

Jeff: S500 and also a few Iskander too. Although, of course, Iran has its own hypersonic missiles that are very, very good. That was not intercepted the last time, they dropped a few on the Zionist entity. Well, you say that Netanyahu’s not going to change. So I guess we’ll just have to wait and see what happens with the response of the Iranians. I understand that apparently, Supreme Leader Khamenei has said that he wants a forceful response. Not just dropping 10 or 15 missiles like they did the last time and taking out some military air bases. I think that the leadership in Iran wants a muscular response. And then, if Hezbollah gets involved it would be quite a show, to say the least. I wouldn’t want to be living in Israel. So what do you know about it?

Don: To say, I don’t know if you knew about the bunker. Netanyahu’s new bunker.

Jeff: No, I hadn’t heard about that. What about it?

Don: Oh, okay. Well, supposedly he’s building or has built a bunker in Jerusalem because he’s going the way of Adolf Hitler.

Jeff: It was his bunker.

Don: Yeah. He wants to die in the bunker. And I think if Iran finds out where this thing is, they may probably already know. Actually, they’ll be hitting on it. I think they’re aiming to kill him.

Jeff: Well, they should. They should. I don’t know if it would really change anything because of the whole leadership or a bunch of psychopaths.

Don: But he’s the worst.

Jeff: Yeah. I’m sure Khamenei and the Russian and the Iranian president are well protected too. And I’m sure, they’re probably down in bunkers too.

Don: I hope so.

Jeff: Have you heard there are some rumors that Iran already doesn’t have a nuclear weapon? What do you think?

Don: Well, I posted an article on that, but there was nothing conclusive about it. Apparently, they have a bunker way down 80. Is it 80m? I think 80m down into the Earth, which is 20m more than the biggest excavator bomb that Washington has. So they can just stay there as long as they want. And some commentator thinks they might be building a bomb there. Maybe they already have one there. I don’t want to say.

Jeff: A lot of people don’t know that Iran has very sophisticated tunnels. They’ve got hundreds of kilometers of tunnels.

Jeff: Oh, yeah.

Don: And they’ve got all these hypersonic missiles and, of course, the same thing with Hezbollah, the Iranian ally in Southern Lebanon also has hundreds of kilometers of tunnels and maybe not hypersonic missiles, but very sophisticated missiles. A lot of people don’t know this, but their mentors are in North Korea. North Korea works with the Iranians to help and of course, then the Iranians teach Hezbollah. So it’s definitely not something that is advertised because they don’t want to give North Korea the credit.

They want the world to think that North Korea is backward and stupid and a hermit. But yeah, going back going back a number of years, North Korea has been working with the Iranians on their tunnel, and that’s why they’ve got such good tunnels because the North Koreans are the best tunnel builders in the world because of the Korean War. And then, of course, North Korea has hypersonic missiles and some of the best missiles out there. And so they’ve really helped a lot for the Axis of resistance to fight NATO.

Don: So I’ve always suspected that, but I didn’t realize, that there was anything known about that.

Jeff: Let me ask you that also, there are rumors that North Korea has been supplying Russia with artillery shells. Do you think that’s true?

Don: Yeah, I do. I believe I’ve read that in Russian. I think that’s true.

Jeff: Okay, okay. Just to add to their arsenal as they ramp up production, I guess. And now since Putin’s last visit to North Korea, they now have a mutual defense treaty. So if anybody attacks North Korea, Russia will come to the aid of North Korea. And of course, since 1961 North Korea has had a mutual defense treaty with China. So if anybody attacks North Korea, they will have both China and Russia to answer to.

Don: But of course, Washington can deal with anybody. They can have 20 wars going all over the world.

Jeff: That’s right. Keep printing money. So I think that’s one of the reasons that they just trying to ignore North Korea because they realize that to give them any kind of propaganda ammunition or whatever. And of course, the North Koreans would deny it any way that they’re helping out Iran and Hezbollah. I don’t know if there are any North Koreans in Lebanon, but I’m sure that there have been and maybe still are North Koreans in Iran. And it’s not a problem because they can just fly across Russia and not even have to go into Western airspace.

Don: Nobody going to stop you

Jeff: To get there. So what do you think about Yemen? I haven’t heard a lot about what’s going on in Yemen lately. Has that huge attack by the United States and Britain on their port facility? Has knocked them back a whack or are they still hitting ships in the Red Sea?

Don: I don’t know of any recent attacks by the Houthis on ships, but they haven’t given up by any means, and they won’t, because these are resistance fronts. They’re one of the resistance fronts, and they don’t give up.

Jeff: Yeah, yeah.

Don: If you got just one man standing, you’ll fight.

Jeff: Yeah, exactly. Well, I tell you what. Thank you for the update on Russia and Ukraine and any other observations that I missed that you’d like to pitch in before we say goodbye. Oh, I do want to ask you this. That’s the one thing I did want to ask you. You and I, well, at least I am frustrated at how slowly Russia is advancing, at least comparatively slowly from when you think of the classic NATO where they just flatten everything and kill everybody over huge areas. But when you’re on the Russian websites and reading what the Russians have to say, are they getting impatient? Are they like, come on man, let’s get this show over? Do you sense or feel any impatience among the Russians?

Don: I think the only thing like that that I have seen would have been on forums. And one of them, maybe in English even where there were some Russians would chime in and say, when are we going to get this thing over with? But I don’t know. It would be nice to know what the Russians, what’s going through their minds.

Jeff: Yeah, yeah, yeah, But maybe because of Russian history and being attacked incessantly for the last thousand years, maybe they’re more patient and more visionary than a typical Westerner like me who wants results now.

Don: I’m sure they are. I’m sure they’re very patient. They were very patient in Leningrad for a thousand years.

Jeff: Yeah, that’s for sure. Well, listen Don go ahead, please. We’ve got all the time in the world. Don’t worry about it. And this is totally unscripted. Don and I were prepared nothing. This is totally off the cuff. Go ahead.

Don: That script you sent me, I lost it. I fell into the waste can. Just kidding. But just one item. The electrical grid in Ukraine. It’s dire. They have lost 70% of their power. So if you go to Ukraine, visit somebody, or go to flip the light switch, nothing’s going to happen. It’s a total national blackout. And I don’t see how they can keep going.

Jeff: Because that’s why Russia’s also been concentrating on electrical grids and energy systems to make it difficult for them to execute war. So yeah, Eric Arnow, one of the members of the China Writers Group has a friend who lives in Ukraine. And he just contacted her and said how’s it I think she may be in Kyiv. I’m not sure. But she didn’t have very good news. She said they’ve only got electricity for a few hours a day, and there are long cut-offs.

Don: Arnold has a blog.

Jeff: On Substack. Yeah.

Don: Yeah. Okay. I read that. I didn’t know how to pronounce his name.

Jeff: Yeah, it’s actually, Lithuanian Russian, his relatives go back to pre-war. I think it’s Lithuania. So it’s been anglicized but also abbreviated. The crazy thing is, did you listen to that video of Richard Medhurst, who lives in Syria, he did like a ten-minute video where he listed all the names of the Israeli leaders going back decades and their real names Benjamin Netanyahu is not really Benjamin Netanyahu. His real name is Benjamin Mileikowsky. And he’s Polish. 90% of the people in Israel are not Semites. They’re Europeans and Americans and Canadians and Australians, they’re Westerners.

Don: The DNA studies that the Israelis themselves are doing show that if you have a group of a group of Jews here, another group here, another group there. Within the group, the DNA is similar, but you go from group to group, nothing.

Jeff: Yeah.

Don: There’s no such thing as a Jew.

Jeff: Yeah, yeah. The real Semites are the Arabs. Now, those are real Semites.

Don: Yeah, yeah. They go back a ways. In fact, maybe they can trace their bloodline to Father Abraham. But the Jews can’t.

Jeff: Well, listen, my friend. Take care in Panama. One day I’d love to come visit you. And you’re welcome to you know, we’re moving to Taiwan Province.

Don: That’s interesting.

Jeff: Hope to be there by the end of September.

Don: What made you choose Taiwan?

Jeff: Because we’re too old for mainland China. Once you get over 60, it’s really hard to get resident permits in mainland China are tied to work permits. So you have to get a work permit first, and then you can get a resident permit based on your work permit. Well, if you’re over 60 and you’re a foreigner, you’re not supposed to be working. Now, there are cases where people who are already there and they turn 60, and they’ll let them stay, usually until they’re 69. If they insist on staying there and staying with the same job and not leaving that job and etc., or they’ve got a company or whatever. And I just turned 70. So there’s no way we could get work permits. So Taiwan Province, of course, which is a part of China, does not have such onerous requirements to live there. And so we’re going to live in Taiwan up in the foothills of the mountains, in the central part of the country.

Don: I lived in Taiwan.

Jeff: And where were you when you were there?

Don: Taipei. I studied at the Mandarin Training Center.

Jeff: Yeah. Okay. I was there.

Don: You have to be studying Chinese or they won’t let you stay usually. Well, in your case, it’s different.

Jeff: Well, we’re going to get one resident permit because we created an LLC or we are creating an LLC and a limited liability company with a small amount of capital. We don’t have enough capital for two resident permits but we’ll have enough capital, the amount of money needed for one resident permit. So we’ll have one permit. And in any case, you can stay for three months in Taiwan with no visa. So a lot of people live there. And then every on the 89th day, they go to the Philippines for a weekend or they go to South Korea, or they go to Japan, or they go to Saipan, or they go to mainland China or Hong Kong or Vietnam. And there are direct flights to all these places. And then they stay for the weekend or take a little vacation there, come back, and then they’re good for another 90 days.

Don: Well, thanks for the information. I was thinking of trying to get to China.

Jeff: To get back there.

Don: But I now know I can’t.

Jeff: How old are you, Don?

Don: I’m 80.

Jeff: You’re 80?

Don: Yeah.

Jeff: Well, there’s nothing stopping you from going to Taiwan. You have an American passport, right?

Don: Yeah.

Jeff: You can go to Taiwan, stay for 89 days, and then take a weekend trip off the island. It’s a one-hour flight to Shanghai. You go to Shanghai for the weekend and come back and keep doing that for 90 days, 90 days, 90 days.

Don: Well, I would do that.

Jeff: Yeah.

Don: But I think you would have to study or something. In my case, I would just go back to school.

Jeff: Well, but with our company we’re okay because we will own our LLC.

Don: Yeah, I understood that.

Jeff: So that protects us from having to do that. That’s like Thailand, you can’t get a resident visa unless you are either studying Thai, studying Thai boxing, or studying Thai cuisine. And then they will only allow you to stay for three years. And then you have to leave. But it seems to be a little bit more flexible in Taiwan. And of course, now there’s no visa needed to go to mainland China for two weeks. Americans, French, and 50-something countries can now go to China for two weeks with no visa. So we can hop on a plane and be in Beijing in 2 or 3 hours and spend a couple of weeks in mainland China and then go back to Taiwan Province.

Don: I understand a lot of Taiwanese are getting work permits and they’re living in mainland China.

Jeff: 1 million. Almost 5% of the population is in mainland China. And they are not driving taxis and washing dishes. These are CEOs. The Taiwanese are very savvy, of course, very savvy business people, very highly educated. And so the Taiwanese that are living in China are engineers, scientists, business owners, factory owners, and CEOs.

Don: I learned that from watching Chinese movies on Netflix. I love it. Their movies are great. Yeah, there’s something woke.

Jeff: There’s no woke and there’s no gratuitous sex. Taiwan is literally fuzed at the hip with mainland China just like South Korea, they cannot survive without mainland China. And so, those million Taiwanese that. And of course, that includes their family. That’s the wives and the kids, too. But yeah, if those people had to leave mainland China, the Taiwanese economy would collapse in days because those are the factories that are producing manufacturing stuff for the Taiwanese businesses, etc.

Don: I wonder about the semiconductor business.

Jeff: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Don: I wonder if they’re not just there’s got to be something but we don’t know that.

Jeff: A little bit of technology may be bleeding across the Taiwanese straits to the mainland.

Don: I sure hope they don’t destroy the factory.

Jeff: Well, they say the Americans will if it means keeping the mainland Chinese from taking possession of it. But now mainland China is producing 5 nanometer chips. So they don’t even really need them anymore.

Don: I didn’t know that.

Jeff: Yeah, 5 to 7 nanometers which is as good as what the Dutch have. And now they’re working on three nanometers. And then, of course, they’ve come up with these new substrates. It’s not silicon, but it’s other substrates that the Chinese are using. And they don’t even need the Dutch chip machines to make chips anymore.

Don: And they’ve got these cars. They’re making cars in several different companies. Several different companies are making automobiles.

Jeff: In China?

Don: Yeah.

Jeff: Well, there are over 100 brands. I mean 100 models of electric cars.

Don: Good, good. We’ve got the Chan, we’ve got the Geely, and a number of others.

Jeff: Oh here in Panama?

Don: Yeah. Yeah.

Don: And they have a good reputation. Supposed to be very good engines here.

Jeff: Probably also BYD. BYD is the biggest. The just three letters BYD. That’s the biggest EV manufacturer in the world.

Don: Oh, EV.

Jeff: Yeah, EV for electric vehicles.

Don: Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I don’t know whether these are electric or not.

Jeff: Yeah. Probably not.

Don: They are beautiful cars. Just beautiful.

Jeff: And they’re much cheaper than Europe and the United States. That’s right.

Don: And they run like a top.

Jeff: Yeah, yeah. All right, Mr. Hank, thank you so much.

Don: Thanks a lot.

Jeff: We have just had a wonderful conversation with Don Hank in Panama, Central America. Russian expert speaks, reads, and writes fluent Russian. Spends days of his life poring over Ukrainian and Russian websites and information, and has his wonderful Substack. Everybody should subscribe to it. Every day I look. And by the way, you actually put me in your last Substack. You put a link in there to something I did. I already forgot what it is. But anyway, thanks a million. I put Don as a guest post in the China writer’s group, as often as I can. So anyway, on with the good fight, and I’ll let you know when this is done, and then you can cross-post it on Substack. Alright.

Don: Okay.

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