let's get a little bit more analysis now from martin friedel he is automotive expert at the university of bamberg and he joins us now good to have you with us so folks. so folks like they themselves say that china is helping them through the pandemic how important is that market for the carmaker. so folks like goes back a long while john of their engagement goes back to the early 1980 s. with a number of very important challenges that they passed and clearly the chinese market is the largest automotive market in the world it is the most important of its soul the doubly so the rebound of the chinese market the 2nd holiday of last year reduced sue good will for you w 2 you know for sports and reporting for sports but that sounds that fox and also other com makers of course there are largely dependent on china or n. any other key markets that they can also rely on so the asia pacific region is the largest market so we don't you know if you look at the broad spectrum of markets where we don't use these operating we see that a 2nd is already in the european union with germany actually still being a ve