, China's health authorities overhauled its zero COVID policy and announced a ten point national plan that scrapped most health code tracking. 

And also, they're rolling back their mass testing. 

This all has been speculated to come from a letter by the Foxconn CEO. But we don't know if it's the full cause here. 

At least that's what a lot of the media has been saying. Foxconn basically manufactures Apple's products, and the condition and treatment of the workers has always been a controversy, so it makes sense that it makes the news. 

I just think it's kind of ridiculous to assume that the second largest economy in the world pivots based on one letter from one CEO. 

I know that that's how the Western Media described the move. Apparently what happened was Terry Guo, who's colloquially known as Uncle Terry, who's the CEO of Foxconn, wrote a letter that essentially said, if we don't figure out a way to get out of this pandemic and this lockdown process, we're going to lose our leadership in the global supply chain. 

And apparently that jolted the Central Planning Commission to realize that they needed to get out of these lockdowns. 

But I think it's something different. I think this has been part of a very focused and dedicated plan by Xi. 

Phase one was to consolidate power. Phase two was to get through November and to basically get reappointed for life and dispel any other rivals that he actually had. And now phase three is just to reopen the economy again, so he can basically sit on top of the second largest economy in the world. 

I think this is sort of a natural flow of things. 

The other part of it, which I think is being underreported, is that the way in which they did it was less responsive, in my opinion, to a letter from Uncle Terry, but was more responsive to the fact that there are people on the ground and massive reporting coming out. 

We can all go online and see the videos of steel bars being put on doors to keep people in their apartment buildings and people screaming and buildings being on fire. People can't escape the buildings. How much of that was true or not? And riots in the street and people fighting with the COVID testers. How much of it is true or not? We don't really know. 

But one thing is for sure, people are fed up. 

And I think that China is very sophisticated and understanding on how to give the Chinese people some part of what they want, so that they're roughly happy enough to keep moving forward. 

But that "something" is getting more and more demanding. People want more freedoms, transparency, democracy...

And maybe we see the same change happening in Iran. We can see young people and a population that's more modern, that's growing and swelling in size, that doesn't want to accept some of the traditional norms and the traditional laws. 

And maybe that will kind of start to resonate around the world, that the Internet is starting to do what everyone hoped and wanted it to do, which is the democratization of information, the democratization of seeing other people's conditions. 

And seeing what the rest of the world is and is like gives the populace the ability to rise up and to say, this is what we want. Because we know that there are better things out there. 

So these autocratic regimes have to start to shift slightly and over time, maybe that has a real impact. 

The demographics of Iran are incredibly notable. You have very few old people, and you've have a lot of people in their twenty's and younger. The demographics of Iran are extremely weighted towards younger people, millennials, Gen X's and younger. 

And they have VPNs, virtual private networks. They can see everything happening in the free world. 

I think that's what gives me a lot of hope. These countries are going to have to evolve because young people are seeing how the rest of the world lives. 

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