michael hurston, is head of asia practice sit the eurasia group. he says, shinto abbe has progressive policies and built good relations with the west. prime minister abe's goal was in some ways to make japan more of a normal country to step out of this somewhat confined role that had been imposed on japan when the constitution was drafted by shortly after world war 2. but he was also responding to security threats, as who said, in particular to the rise of china, more assertive china, which was an issue that really occupied a lot of abe's attention. and was the central part of this. well, ave had really a tremendous impact on us policy in asia region. he was either the architect or at least the leading proponent of a lot of the key initiatives that shape how the u. s. is, is interacting with asia today. that includes this notion of an indo pacific that brings in india as part of, of the countries that the u. s. and japan were closely west. it includes a leadership of that t p, p, a trade deal. and he was remarkably effective in dealing with trump i