these chief political editor, michelle clifton, i was traveling with the german defense minister. she sent us this update, or hey, in the, in the pacific where many countries are struggling to push back on china is increasing aggressive germany the wealth, 3rd largest economy is trying to live up to the strategic lead us of expectations that come with his economic power during his one week's trip defense minister, both victoria skipped stating that defending the rules based international order and the end of pacific is also in europe, interest. also in some of these interest, the problem is he has this so he can actually deploy here no more than 2 sips. so in the world's largest team in the room pack off the coast of hawaii, when he visited the troops during this trip, he also took down the into the un combined of seeing the armistice between north and south korea. true. it's a new role. hotness also appreciate the symbolism about countries like south korea, the philippines in india would prefer buying german, made military hardware like ad offense and transport systems. here in m