Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I think that all the opinions, all the comments and all the analyses tell us that the Communist Party has taken control of the state apparatus in a very intense and intimate way. There's a close relationship, I would say, between the party apparatus and the state apparatus.
Mr. Paltiel, you've carefully pointed out that there's been a paradigm shift with the arrival of the current president, Xi Jinping.
Do you think there is indeed a connection to be made between Xi Jinping's personality and his control of the state and this paradigm shift that is taking place, which has had quite dramatic implications for Canada?
As you said, can we expect—we don't know when, we don't know how—such a change with a different character at the head of the Chinese state?