include this as a subset of public opinion and i go back to the public opinion or of a man named daniel yankelovich who came off with boundaries of the permissible. he says that every political leader has an idea, i brought idea of if i go beyond this point in this policy issue, i will elicit a reaction that i don't want to have to deal with. different people have these boundaries but it may mean we don't fully understand where they are. they have them and i think there are some unpleasant redlines in the leadership that make them very reticent to move in certain directions. japan would pay one area, taiwan would be another area, maybe the dali lama is in there but they have these red lines out there. they spend an awful lot of time on public opinion monitoring. it is very extensive and often quite objective. i would say that they are sure spending a lot of effort to ascertain opinion if we presume they don't care about it. that is not to take away that on certain key strategic issues that the chinese leadership can assert itself. i think they still can. there are many issues where it chooses not t