danticat the scale a little bit iran is clearly still conducting maligned activities throughout the middle east. they still support a variety of terrorist organizations. the agreement that was reached over nuclear weapons has lowered the temperature somewhat and we will see how all that turns out over the course the coming years up to a decade or so. but that remains to be seen so i ran the something we have to continue to watch and we in the army will be prepared to respond to any contingency. i already mentioned russia. we mention north korea. china going back to the previous question, china, think it's important for people to understand, china is a rising power. china has been a rising power since deng xiaoping and 79 and they have been clicking up to 10% growth for almost 30 years and drop downs 7% last year will probably drop coming into the range of normalcy but that's still significant economic growth. there has been a really large historic change from a north atlantic-based global economy to now proceeding to be in north pacific raise global economy. so with respect to china what n