The last 5 minutes of a close football or netball or basketball game can be a VERY LONG 5 minutes.
And so we must enure a looong wait until 3 November umtil we find out what may happen and from there until after 20 January to determine what will happen.
There are many aspects of political behaviour on all sides that must to improve or we are all stuffed. That means everyone in our region and everyone in the US and China. Authoritarians within China are using Trump's antics as an excuse to cement their internal power ATM. How they behave after Trump is gone is anyones guess ....... BUT......... sabre rattling by the PLA Politburo faction doesn't bode well for global acceptance of China's critically important Belt and Road program.
The clock is ticking towards 3 Novermber but each second will feel like days IMHO.
A lesson in this is that while authoritarians may admire each other, they don't usually get on. They clash. Putin also needs to remember this little point.
