I read a lot of commentary on this situation from various sources. And readers like me who have no direct experience of these countries leadership utterly rely on what we are told to form our opinions. One of the points I found interesting in this article was the idea that Xi suffered humiliation in Florida for being blind sided by the US attack on Syria. That is about the opposite of what some others have written about the Florida visit, but I surely don't know enough to say it is wrong. I'd guess the author of this article knows enough such that there is some real substance to a lot of what he says and I appreciate hearing different perspectives. About one thing I have no doubt: the situation is perilous, and recently caused me to decide not to make an investment in a far east ETF with a lot of South Korean content.