be the first time the shinzo a chinese will attend the. rendezvous and docking with the on going one which has a launch in september twenty ninth and basically it's another important step for the chinese to achieve its goal to having a long term presence in space how would you assess china's progress in developing in the country space program and how far is it behind compared to the achievements racked up by russia in the u.s. . well china has come a long way in terms of space technology but i still think. the country has a still a long way to go basically chinese space technologies do not represent a major technology called breakthrough if you compare it with the russian and american space technologies for example the wonder space more joy it could be compared to the earlier russian space modules of the so you program one nine hundred seventy s. and the space station that the chinese actually envisioned by twenty twenty could be compared to what the mir was in the mid one nine hundred eighty s. that said however you can argue that the chi

for example, part of our work was the establishment of a legitimate market in chanson, -- shinzo and, -- shins and, china. this has demonstrated that when it focuses, it can have real results. semiconductors were not part of that campaign. it was indicated that there was strong progress. i think having our trade officials and others having stronger enforcement, that is the way to go. >> mr. hiollm -- hillman, are they simply turning a blind eye, or is there evidence of complicity? >> that is nothing that our investigation has uncovered to date. we will be continuing our investigation and reporting our findings later this year. >> did your investigation determined that any of our service members had been injured or that there was loss of life tied to these counterfeit chips? >> the parts that we purchased the into many applications. the results of our application today suggest that those parts can be purchased on a counter bid basis. we have not gone to the extent to determine whether counterparts have actually been placed into those systems. therefore, whether or not lives have been i