significantly twenty percent believe it will improve and only seven percent see it weakening back to peter ok jim if i went to the break you were. going to point go right ahead. i think all the positive aspects that we've talked about so far are true but they also have to be weighed against dangers and and downsides what the spreading information does as we've seen over this past decade it one thing it does is it creates intense issue publics people who are able to connect with each other who were never able to connect before and then sort of join forces that can be a good thing but you know there was a time in america if you were an extremist or a pedophile and you lived in some small town you were able to connect with other people in other towns and sort of organized activities let's change now so the bad guys they're able to stay in touch with one another and you get these very intense groupings where people only talk to themselves and their feelings grow more intensely and are harder edge another aspect of sort of this political bubble these things that sort of arise out of nowhere you don't

peter. ok i talk about people's power but first to jim about the people's republic of china at the very end of this year we saw on the gauche ations between the chinese officials and the e.u. about and i'll say it what it is there's to be a lot of different ways of describing it but it's china's helping to bail out the european union from all of its debts ok so i ask you in two thousand and ten would it be fair to say this is the year china stood up and started saying we are listening but you have to start listening to us now. i think that's a fair assessment peter you know we have been talking about the rise of china for decades and decades and i think finally we're actually starting to see it part of that is a function of the fact that china came out of the world recession the economic crash in better shape than europe in the u.s. the u.s. continues to have sluggish growth and europe obviously continues to have problems particular countries in the e.u. facing bankruptcy so china came out ahead in a position of comparative advantage they were had high growth rates anyway they finally. rose