and with more of this, i'm joined them by william chu, he's deputy director of hudson institute japan chair and focuses on us japan relations. william help us out here because on the face of it, it's a bit confusing. we've got the us secretary state in japan praising strong ties between washington and tokyo. meanwhile, president biden is blocking a friendly takeover of the us deal maker by japanese one calling into national security risk. how does this fit together as well? i think this really highlights the split people within dividing this ration of certainly blinking along with the secretary of defense, austin and the secretary of your treasury. you'll in support of the deal. all 3 understand how important to us repent. relationship is over biting is much more motivated, bike constructing his legacy is the most pro union president after a discipline politically disappointing, 2024, in which he was kicked off the democratic ticket. so the irony to, unfortunately, by blocking the steel, the irony is that his legacy will actually be destroying 11000 union seal, worker jobs and other s