i'm doing now by mary gallagher and she's a professor of political science at the university of michigan. she is also the director of the center for chinese studies professor. it's good to have you on the program. you know, we just heard it or reported they're talking about the, the monday call and the fact that there's still this tension in the air. or how do you read that? i mean, are we passed the protests? well, i think we've seen in the last 24 hours, just a hugely increased police presence. you know, these arrests and the barricades that have gone up the harassment of journalists. so it's possible that you know, the chinese government has a lot of capacity. they can shut these protests down, but they're not really gonna solve the problem right? there are still going to be a lot of dissatisfaction, a lot of anger underneath a about the lock downs and about 0 cove it. and also just about the political environment it's, it's, i think a lot of people believe that the political environment is partly why the policy won't change. you explain that to me because i think people around the wo