fisher. now i'd like to recognize senator king via web ex. >> thank you, mr. chairman. director haines, i'd like to ask you a question i ask pretty much every foreign policy leader we have before this committee. what's your analysis of what china's goals are? what does china want? >> thank you, senator. well, obviously i'm not here as a foreign policy analyst but i'm happy to give you a sense of how the analysts perceive it. i think, as a general matter, china sees itself as rising and sees the united states as declining, and is not interested in going to war, but perceives that as a concern, as these trajectories from their perspective pass each other in a sense. and in that context, china believes that the united states is trying to check china's rise. and in that context is countering from their perspective, again, what they perceive to be our influence and our efforts in this area. i think, in their perception, they are increasingly perceiving it as a zero sum game and that promotes in a sense their efforts to really push us out in a way. and to be a threat across a