the american leader. with xi jinping, i'm not so sure. i think we might want to start to talk less to the chinese because when we talk more to them, it feeds their already inflated sense of self-importance and i think what the united states needs to do is start imposing some costs on china, more than what we saw last week. that would be effective. but you know, we inflate the chinese role and we've been doing that since the bush administration in 2003, so it hasn't worked in the past. i don't think it's going to work now. >> so what arrow in the united states' quiver is most likely to deescalate the situation with north korea? is it the idea of secondary sanctions on china, for instance? >> yeah, i think that if we were to unplug a large chinese bank from money laundering, that would tend to get the chinese to sit on the north koreans. you know, last week, we unplugged a small fry chinese bang, but bank of china, one of china's big four banks has also been involved in money laundering. the u.n. has cited it in its