i open the book, by the way, with a visit onboard the uss carl vinson at the chinese naval base, just one kind of ill -- illustrative dimension of that relationship. but there's a general, i would say, orientation in singapore towards the u.s. but on the other hand, singapore, you know, has deep commercial ties and, obviously, epic ties as well to china. what it doesn't have is a diaspora problem. now, if you go to all of these southeast asian countries, you will find ethnic chinese diaspora, and that has been a very sore point, a very sensitive element to china's relations with every one of these countries going back decades. and it hasn't been pretty, particularly in indonesia. not just in 1965 following the coup when nearly 2 million ethnic chinese were slaughtered within six weeks. but more recently, even four years ago in jakarta, i was taken through a neighborhood that was fire bombed and burned out four years ago in anti-chinese riots, and they still have not demoll ifishing and -- demolished and rebuilt those buildings. anyway, i'm getting a little bit away from steve's questi