amy: michael klare, maybe you can take that question. think orville raises some of the difficulties that we face. certainly, xi jinping and the chinese have made very threatening comments against taiwan. that is only half of the picture. the other half is what has the united states done to increase tensions in the taan strait? if you look at what the biden administration has been doing, it has been suggesting that taiwan should become a part of the u.s. military alliance, joining japan, south koa, australia, india, in the so-called quad, as part of a chain of violence and states surrounding china, trying to thr ottle its rise. that may not be how it is framed in government statements, but that is how it looks to china. from china's point of view, it is the u.s. that is the aggressor. i am not saying that that is necessarily the master plan in washington, but that is the way it looks. just as orville says, the chinese to us appear very bellicose and threatening, that is a question of rception on both sides. what has to happen, both sides