or demographic changes, changes in supply chains, there's a lot of pressure on china domestically and these nationalist flame—fanning exercises are a typical tactic of leadership to rally around the flag and turn support towards them. and i guess would you say that not many people expected beijing to act so quickly and rather aggressively in hong kong as well? exactly. there's sort of been of perception in beijing that america's influence was waning, that others were disinterested or less interested in asia. i think that that has changed largely over the last couple of years, primarily because of the aggression vocally and by action out of beijing that's drawing people back in. but i guess this latest move by the uk and also obviously the ongoing tensions with the us, beijing is not going to like that, would they? no, beijing is not going