story was based on people officials thathe are involved in investing china's foreign currency reserves. they recommended that china should halt or slow purchases of treasuries. so, not sell the current holdings they have, but to halt or slow and it was just a recommendation. there was no suggestion that this was happening or that this had been endorsed by china itself. tom: emma with your years of coverage of the chinese media, what do you make of the fact that these different sources are just playing the western media off of each other? bloomberg reports a good story -- a story based on good sourcing and reuters comes back with a story that it is not true, are they playing a shell game with western media? emma: perhaps. it is very hard to know. i think the nature of the denial