rush: maybe we'll start with you liana. liana: thank you so much. it is true there -- you cannot come to any other conclusion. if you look at the domestic turmoil in germany, but there are some bright -- or for optimism with policy entrepreneurship and the leadership entrepreneurship which is unrivaled. but the most powerful presence of the european commissions. she has pushed to an agreement is one of the instruments to push back against china in 2023, feeling very creative in europe and then also we have up or he promising situation in poland where after the discussions we have a lot of experience as prime minister in the u.k. and then we will have presidential elections but the context, who needs to deliver, it's germany. and they are also optimistic looking at the next government because a conservative led government -- those of -- a relationship with donald trump , but not only on that point, also on the relationship with brussels, with paris, of the engagement of ukraine, the relationship with warsaw. they have been strong and outspoken and mi

rush: maybe we'll start with you liana. liana: thank you so much. it is true there -- you cannot come to any other conclusion. if you look at the domestic turmoil in germany, but there are some bright -- or for optimism with policy entrepreneurship and the leadership entrepreneurship which is unrivaled. but the most powerful presence of the european commissions. she has pushed to an agreement is one of the instruments to push back against china in 2023, feeling very creative in europe and then also we have up or he promising situation in poland where after the discussions we have a lot of experience as prime minister in the u.k. and then we will have presidential elections but the context, who needs to deliver, it's germany. and they are also optimistic looking at the next government because a conservative led government -- those of -- a relationship with donald trump , but not only on that point, also on the relationship with brussels, with paris, of the engagement of ukraine, the relationship with warsaw. they have been strong and outspoken and mi

fellows elliott abrams, liana fix, shannon o'neil. we will discuss the global profile, how are countries around the world looking at this relationship? what are these countries doing in all of thee -- these regions? thank you all for joining us. i would like to welcome now bay fong and richard fontaine to the stage. thank you. bay: thank you all for joining us today. this will be a really interesting conversation. i have the pleasure of moderating this opening keynote session entitled no limits, the china-russia relationship and u.s. foreign policy. with my good friend, richard fontaine here in the room, and ams consider -- ambassador bob blackwill on the screen. we will have half an hour of conversation and you guys will be able to ask questions. so i wanted to start actually with ambassador blackwill. if you could lay out for us how you guys decided to write this report. >> thank you, bay. good to see all of you if only remotely. richard and i in the summer of 2003 were hard at work on our book on the pivot, and realized that an imp