and so, cloudflare has no operations in china, we rely on baidu to do that. we have this unified plot from that can ensure performance security and availability now matter where your customers are in the world. emily: at the same time you formed a partnership, it seems like the chinese government is only restricting the internet even more. obviously, facebook is still blocked in china and twitter is still blocked in china. but it is even difficult to access gmail in china. carmen, what do you think about this tech summit with president xi jinping? what kind of concrete progress will we see? will facebook be unblocked or are those things just never going to happen? carmen: i'm actually optimistic about what is happening right now. i think that, as you know, i think that google is returning to the chinese market. and i think facebook is still engaged in discussions and i'm quite optimistic. i think that this summit in seattle is a very good opportunity for people from china, for people from the u.s. and a lot of u.s. ceos, as well as u.s. government representat

you call it a virtual joint doesre because cloudflare not operate in china. but the website will load more quickly in china which means it could be a boon to foreign companies. matthew: to give you some sense, we saved over 240 years worth of time that chinese internet users would have spent waiting for websites to load. emily: having lived in china, that is a lot of time saved. matthew: if you went back that are, this united states would not even exist as a country 240 years ago. what is remarkable is we worked with high due to allow our customers to be announced inside china but we have done it in such a way that the personal, private data, the secrets of those companies and passwords are never shared inside mainland china. has no operations in china but we have this unified plot from that can ensure performance security and availability now matter where your customers are in the world. like the chinese government is only restricting the internet even more. facebook is still blocked in china and twitter is still blocked in china. but it is even difficult to