the systrelationship for decade. and indeed, the e.u. in the only has a free trade agreement that it signed earlier this year with japan, it wants to have a similar agreement with the asian countries of southeast asia and one with india and companies are getting into the chinese market more heavily to substitute for american rivals like boeing. so the situation that will unfold is that the european asian trade relationship is really going to strengthen. it's $1.6 trillion today that could easily grow to $2 trillion, $2.5 trillion per year while america's trade with europe and america's trade with asia will stagnate or decline. >> so what you're describing is a world in asia that is moving forward and the united states to a certain extent is being left behind. i mean, the most visible symbol of this is probably the u.s. opting out of the chance pacitr