and that in many respects it was to humiliate germany and angel merkel has been a huge friend and partner of she, jim ping. so it was interesting timing and this kind of china narrative, it will be very difficult, i think, for china, for europe to continue down this kind of road of careful, carefully cultivated sitting on the fence and avoid making decisions. because in many respects as china, that's making them make decisions and clearly political will is left well as really interesting, the whole idea of pushing back against trying to. cuz we had a lot more of that than we have in the past from on the line in her speech yesterday. and she talks about pushing back on or banning products produced by force labor. that's obviously a and in relation to what's happening and shinji young, the need for independence when it comes to producing semiconductors and microchips within the e. u. really trying to take a step back from the pacific. david previously seen a us realignment here of the strategic priorities towards the endo pacific. i mean the submarine deal with the you can us a case in poin