going to work and they're still in gauging social activities it's normal just be aware john this laurel jorma speaking to us from hong kong thank you so much for that and. and while hong kong remains tense beijing finalizes celebrations here as a roundup of the pageantry planned for tuesday. every note and every step carefully choreographed under her 1st china is deploying 15000 personnel for its largest ever military parade a display of strength that will flow into no way of hardware from fighter jets to supersonic drones on its 70th anniversary the people's republic wants to showcase its transformation into an economic and military power host. for president xi jinping it's a key moment to assert his vision for china on the eve of the communist states birthday he paid his respects to its find a mouse a dong she has set out to secure his own place in history with efforts to establish china as a major player on the international stage. those efforts lately undermined by a trade war with the u.s. as well as protests in hong kong which have drawn attention to china's human rights record but snow