It also looks like the PRC will dodge US efforts to push it into a corner on Iran sanctions by throwing Iran under the bus once again.

Both the Belt and Road Forum and China's emerging position on the US demand it cut oil purchases from Iran provide important signals on the PRC's progress in its grand strategy to withstand US economic and financial warfare and build an alternate economic system keyed on China and the RMB Yuan instead of America and the US dollar.

And the PRC unexpectedly bested the US Navy at its favorite game of maritime lawfare in the Taiwan Strait.  For now, anyway.

And Avengers: Endgame.  Because sometimes you just gotta.