and us relations with regards to the media. there was this congressional hearing, the ceo of tiktok appeared, he got a grilling from both democrats and republicans, and the chinese state had repeatedly pushed back, saying, this is one of many quotes i could use the us provided no evidence or proof that tiktok threatens us national security, but we very much heard those concerns in that congressional hearing. broadly, should we see the tiktok story is part of the broader story we have been discussing for the last few minutes? or is it something quite separate? i think it is quite separate and i think it is separate because of the relationship between the chinese state and bytedance, the owner of tiktok, is nowhere near as close as the relationship between the chinese state which directly controls state media xinhua, and so on. so i think there is an analogy there between chinese control of state media, the phrase there being the party's media belonging to the party's family. so really, it is tightâknit, it is the same thing. and control over an essentially