let's now go live to international action center, co director sarah flounders, welcome sarah. president, being paying is set to pay his 1st visit to saudi arabia and 6 years as part of efforts to boots china's relations with the golf region. what are your expectations of the meeting? well, new certainly is a game changer. it's a huge development, and it's not only a meeting with, with saudi arabia. this is a meeting with quite a number of our countries and whole new deals to be signed. that is whole new development in the world today. and until this time, really, us had a lock on rolling in, not only was saudi arabia with the gulf states, and through military equipment and sales, they didn't offer much else, had locked these countries into what was a constant struggle that they had to control their own resources to set the prices to set the developments against the expectations and demands of the us empire. now we can see the change coming, the demand of the us to set an oil cap, which worse undermines of loss is being met in a way which was completely unexpected. and it means really, i