and arthur dog, the professor at georgetown university mcdonough school for business. thank you both for joining us. professor don. i want to start with you here. now, because we've talked about this quite a bit, and we've heard about how the pandemic affected china is ability to meet its commitments. but the nation was also eager to point out how quickly it recovered from the pandemic. so was it, why wasn't china able to meet the terms of disagreement as we see it right now? yes, but that's a very good question. china will explain that that their inability to meet this commitment was due largely as a result of and demick related a reasons whether it is bottlenecks in the supply chain or delivery. but that's probably going to fall on deaf ears once it's report reaches congress. and so, yes, let's give china some credit for largely meeting this, this commitment 2 thirds of the way. but so, you know, the, china's credit, even if china bought every last grain of corn and soybeans in the united states and every pig and cow in the united states, you can take the entire amou