it's bringing melissa chad. she's joining us live from powers and presidents back from seems to be sending mixed messages to she. melissa. yes, and that has been a criticism of the friendship approach to china over the last few years. it seems inconsistent. sometimes you have a moment with president con saying things that are quite harsh to badging and other times quite sanguine. and you can see what you just said in terms of visit the different goals that he has, right? number one, he has to talk to the leader of the us, china shooting king about russia. and then of course, the issue with electric vehicles and chinese subsidies, in other words, producing inexpensive chinese cars and then importing them to europe and subsidized at a cheaper rate. and that's a anti competitive behavior that isn't about content. spearheading with brussels in terms of investigating this mat in the chinese have said and threatened to retaliate by having issues in banning potentially or putting terrace on french con yet. so you have

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