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Global market, but it will matter a great deal to a country that over its 20-year experiment with socialism, its oil industry has truly suffered and it's down to pumping about a quarter of what it did 20 years ago. so this is going to bring a lot more money potentially back in because don't forget too, we're not just allowing chevron to work, but we're sending our expertise down there. and that's going to mean a great deal to their state-owned company working with chevron, which has really suffered from equipment problems and skilled people who know how to keep up with the rest of the industry...

Response, the biden administration's response? you heard it from john kirby saying we're not taking sides here, but they favor peaceful protests. what do you make of that? >> well, a couple of hungs, paul. -- things, paul. their reluctance is undoubtedly part of the great urn wounding of the concern unwinding of the world's relationship with china. the canadian government just this past week defined china as an aggressor. the united states government has been more direct and explicit about criticizing what vladimir putin's doing in russia, it has been explicit about criticizing iranian treatme...

I mean, so to they say, yeah, we want everybody to love each other, but really they don't? >> well, the it's a really astute question that you're asking, and we did a very interesting experiment on our survey. we asked people do you want people to stand up for what's right? who-thirds of public said yes. do you want compromise? two-thirds of the public said yes. in terms of working together, when we asked people to choose, over 60 president of the people said i want people to work together, and that is particularly in true of working well. paul: they're probably right. and so, ed, what are you...

On protests against the country's zero covid policies with police fanning out across china's biggest cities and security services using beijing's vast surveillance system to hunt down those participating in the mass demonstration. protests began last weekend many several big cities as frustration over nearly three years of pandemic restrictions boiled over into a rare display of public defines against the chinese government -- defiance against the chinese government and president xi jinping. the white house coming under fire for what critics say is its tepid support for the protest ors. here's...

Should not go along with proposed expansions. scott hodgeing is president emeritus and a senior policy adviser at the tax foundation. scott, welcome. good to see you again. you came up with this a quarter century ago. why have you changed your mind? >> well, paul, i think it's one of those classic cases of something that may have had good intentions providing a little bit of tax relief for families with children, but it's come into one of the largest income transfer programs mt. federal budget now to the tune of about $120 billion a year. and to put that in perspective, that's equal dot.com bi...