1  I find it hard to trust or believe anything China says. I finally do agree with Irans President when his reply to this was everything China has sent them is junk. China is a master at stealing technology and making knockoffs but they lack the skill to make their knockoffs dependable and consistent. Take their high speed rail a perfect copy of European and Japanese design except China cannot produce the high quality steel needed to make the bearings so the trains can run at top speed. The best they can do is half speed and the vibrations from the ride is known to cause numbness is the riders legs. The Saudis launched a Chinese Missile at the Houthis and it fell apart before it got to the target.This is why I believe they wont attack Taiwan because they know themselves their stuff is junk .

2 Interesting analysis, Mike. It's well for us to keep these things in mind; not all technology is equal in quality. Thanks for pointing these things out!

Tim, I'm not so sure Trump is desperate about the midterms. There's a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes that we don't know about, and we shouldn't believe 80% of what we read from the MSM.

3 Interesting analysis indeed Mike. Yeah; the Chicoms are full of beans, no doubt. And they don't make good stuff. But if their economy gets bad enough I think they will not have a lot of choice about Taiwan. They will reach the point of needing a win too badly.
BTW there is a rumor floating around that Xi is room temperature.
Dana, I don't know if Trump is desperate or not but he probably should be if he isn't. This situation isn't looking good. We've got to get oil prices down this upcoming week. 
I don't believe the polls but what do the GOP have to run on other than their not being the Crazycrats? They haven't done anything. The public noticed. 
And for the love of all things holy the GOP needs to quit being distracted by talk about AI and other red herrings. I was going to watch Fox News Sunday and they were planning the whole show to be about AI. Obama wants to talk about AI to distract voters fromm how crazy his Party's candidates are. And the GOP is falling right into that trap.