Thank you for giving me this opportunity to elaborate on what I said earlier. What I meant is that if you have a vote in the UN system, of course you are going to see China getting a lot of votes. That's not what I meant by “allies”. These are countries that are aspiring to get assistance from China, especially through investments in “one belt, one road”, the belt and road initiative. They are looking to China for help, but they are not going to help in return, in terms of geopolitical confrontation. I think I'm actually answering the questions from that aspect.
China has Xi Jinping. Mr. Xi wants China to become rejuvenated, a great power, by the year 2049. He said that at the 19th National Congress, because again, 2049 will be the 100-year anniversary of the establishment of the PRC. These landmark years mean something for the Chinese Communist Party, but a week is a very long time in politics. If you are saying there's something you want to achieve in 2049 or 2027, it is all a political slogan.
We are watching what is happening on a daily basis. As I said in my opening remarks, the fact is that China is having economic difficulties in a way that was not expected by China itself and was not expected by the world. The world somehow has become very accustomed to China's being like a locomotive, a driving force of global economic growth, but that is not going to happen. You are going to read this more and more from the international media. The international media sometimes take a rosy view of China because they themselves have huge investments in China. They are hoping China can be revived, but it is not happening, as we can see from the current data.