we have next to me paul nantulya, research associate at the africa center for strategic studies at nationalse university. dege rolland a sadistic michelle in cell in china studies of the national bureau of asia research. and on the screen joining as from beijing is michael schuman was a nonresident senior fellow with the global china hub as well as a contributing writer for the atlantic magazine. so i i should just say at thee audience questions for the last ten minutes of our panel today, and audience members cant submit questions via ask■. so we will get to that at the end. please feel free to jump in and ask questions. what were going to do is jump into our moderated discussion for the rest of the conference. we won't be have any open marks. w free-flowing conversation. what i want to start off with is really a question for you, just very broadly why is beijing so interested in the global south to begin with? >> thank you very much for having me today, it's good to be and to focus on such important questions for a couple of days. interest in the global south and what we call the global s