john blackland is a professor of international security and intelligent studies that they'll strongly national university strategic defense studies center. he says the pacific is benefiting from the rivalry between the us and china that happened beginning pacific island. so getting more investment, more attention, more of high level visits, more commitments, and i've seen in generations so that must be pretty happy on a number of levels. what's going on. but it's interesting, while the solomon islands has been the 1st to saw an impact with the, with china or security arrangement from what, from, from a foreign minister, one you to the left of the pacific in early 20, $22.00, thinking that he'd be able to sign a deal with the whole of the pacific, all as for him, come to a set of countries and file dismally. and then i bought and then came up with the pacific partnership program that managed to even get them. and that's the sort of already from the solomon islands to come to the white house. and there's a wonderful photo of him standing right next to jo boards. so there's a lot of game