>> rose: when you look at the chinese today, the obama administration had a cause which shifted the attention to pivot was the word that was used, shift the attention to china, asia, latin america. did that ever happen other than in rhetoric? >> in important ways, it did happen. i'll give you a couple of examples. there is a group of leaders in the asia-pacific called the east asia summit. >> rose: right. and before president obama came into office the united states was not a part of that. this is the premier political and security forum in asia and the united states didn't have a seat at the table. the chinese, indians, japanese were there, all the southeast asian countries were there, even industrialias, america wasn't there. president obama, secretary clinton ended up putting us there. so we are now at the center of the major institutions in asia. that's one. two, we have, in fact, engaged in a foreshift in the terms of the amount of military posture we built up in asia as...