china, and he's also author of the recently released book, china civilian army, the making of wolf water diplomacy. peter, welcome, the tom wolf, 40 or something. we've gotten used to hearing quite a bit yet in europe. what is it, and is it a metaphor for china's interaction with the rest of the world? yeah, thanks so much for having me. i guess most worried diplomacy is, is this term that given this brand new approach that chinese diplomats with taking? well, you know, in some cases they stormed out of international meetings. they've told foreign count, shut up and told them that china can no longer be elected. and the way that those diplomats, the behaving is in some ways seen as kind of a metaphor, a broad, muscular approach to chinese foreign affairs. why is china acting in this fashion? i think it comes down to 2 things. i think on the one hand is new competence that china has, you know, navigated to 2008 to 9 financial crisis. and most recently, it navigated the current of bars pandemic as western countries, in many cases struggle to control the outbreak. so there's a new kind of competence in the