w. clifford cooney who joins me now in the studio. so let's follow up on that last line of your report. there doesn't seem to be a succession plan of any kind. was been very interesting in the, in the, in recent years in china mean under modes dong, he did have people who looked like his anointed successors. some of them were eased out like joe and lie. others died in plain crushes like in bow am and then we had young junk. the men who followed on from, from don shopping am and who's in town they did, they sort of formed an arc as well. but then suddenly would she, jim ping m, who again could be put in that camp with the successors of old going all the way back to dog shopping. and, but he doesn't, he seems to be behaving very differently. so it's very difficult to actually draw an arc here. what he's doing now is, is taking full control, and he's entrenching himself at the top of the party. and anyone, any of his allies seemed to be just like people on the standing committee of the politburo rather than people. you would think that w