that's brain i guess in beijing einer tongue and senior fellow at the time he institute in moscow. dmitri babbage, political analyst at the, you know me into that project based in moscow and in brussels, theresa fallon, director of the center for russia, europe, asia studies welcome to the program. let me begin in beijing. first. is this a hard power play by china, or is it a soft power play? and by that, i mean, is china going to start using its financial, political muscle to formulate this new partnership with russia that is going to try and reshape the world? well, i don't think it's necessary, a new partnership with russia. this is the ceo. i mean, there's a whole bunch of nations there and a lot more waiting on the doorstep to join with china is trying to do as, as you know, in your opening, you pointed out they are making sure that they're spreading their business around in terms of gas and they made a very, very point statement and lock response, early territorial integrity is very important. the reason this is apropos dimension is that there have been rumblings of very from very hawkish,