diplomatic core but there's a limit to how much public discourse is going to break away from that legitimatizing narrative of the communist party. i think the domestic political issues very important. that is why i emphasize when i talk about course of diplomacy. the fact that the nation has been fed that line for so long that countries like united states leave china ill make it is more controversial when the united states is involved in either east china sea with tehran and in many cases u.s. goals are distorted. and that dialogue that i described in 2006 led by secretary paulson i thought was terrific from a security specialist point of view. because i worked in security -- >> quite a signologist himself. >> he's quite an expert traveled there 70 times before he was in government i don't know how many times now. i read his book which is terrific and the -- message that was being sent by the united states during those -- economic and economic dialect were very important from security realm because nobody can walk away from those meetings thinking that the united states was trying to keep china down. unit