let's go to christian whiton, former state department official.s now officially getting a little anxious. how do you see it, christian? >> it is. the chinese always make a big deal but important to keep this in perspective. $619 million, not billion, that the taiwanese have spent. this is important. this is not a giveaway. this is the stuff taiwanese have purchased. we actually have a 19 billion-dollar backlog of stuff has been approved for taiwan, that taiwan has bought hasn't been delivered. representative mike gallagher, the head of the new china committee was in taiwan drawing attention to this. nice we're providing air-to-air missiles and armed package can go on f-16s the taiwanese previously bought which are old incidentally, that we're plussing up taiwan, deterring china in the specific, just not true. neil: christian, is it f-16 or f-16 munitions? when i heard that, i thought that is not what we're not at least at this point providing ukraine? >> well that's right. we are not providing ukraine with f-16s. that is considered sort of a big s