kishore, china is on the verge of its own leadership change.ey have time in the midst of this very dramatic change to think about who would be a better president for them? how do you think the chinese look at the succession because this is going to be the most important bilateral relationship in the world in some ways. >> you're right by the way. there's some things very strange happening in china right now in the midst of this transition in china. people expected it to go much more smoothly than it has, and i'm sure they're very internally preoccupied. but the dust was settled. the chinese have kind of a very strange paradoxical concern about the united states. on the one hand they don't want to have a china -- america that's too strong, too aggressive, pushing china in a specific region the way it could as china has seen in other places. at the same time, the chinese also realize that an american that is weakened too much is that is weakened too much is also bad for them because, i mean, the chinese at the end of the day want a strong global