u. s. thornton, there are no issues with discussing how we settle our trade arrangements, whether it is in the us dollar, whether it is the euro, whether it is the saudi re all this course live now to the former dean of the school of international studies in new delhi and rather chin or joining us live here on our team to national a variable. welcome to thank you very much for coming on the program. i know you've been listening to the story as you've been waiting to go live with us here. a free trade zone between china and the gulf cooperation council states, how significant would not be extremely significant. it can change the balance of the global geo political economy. this is the material basis of the multi point was moving oil in trade to the oil trade to the u on don't, as the economist said, of a few weeks or a few months ago could take almost 6 $100000000000.00 out of the dollars dawn and bring china to the center of the world economy. so this is like a huge step, but it's a process which will unfold gradually, but we can see that it is happening. and i think china, russia, and