to the pacific region and then calling russia in europe, let's continue to analyze this with volodymyr dubovyks the director of the center for international studies, associate professor of the department of international relations of the mechnikov odesa national university, and mr. volodymyr i congratulate you, let's go from the other side let's look at this situation, is the usa ready to be friends with china, taking into account these theses of lloyd austin about defense strategy, good evening, i think not, i think that now china has been appearing as a real challenge for a long time the opponent is a threat to america, and because of that, it is unlikely that any changes of a positive nature can be expected in the near future. this does not mean that the chinese are already such an acute threat that must be responded to even now, but all the same, the improvement of relations between america and i'm in china for the first time in the near future. well, i'll remind you that oleksii koval just visited us and he said that china, on the contrary, is ready for a certain rapprochement of relation