maria: welcome back president trump asking china to investigate former vice president joe biden and his son, over their business dealings in china, after hunter biden received $1.5 billion from the chinese government. how is beijing eying all of these developments amid the ukraine controversy and impeachment inquiry joining me is jonathan ward the founder of the atlas organization, author of the book china's vision of victory and jonathan good to have you thanks for joining us. thank you. maria: what do we have like a week and a half before the important trade meeting happening between the u.s. and chinese officials on october 10, how do you think china is viewing all that's gone on this past week, in the u.s. about impeachment around this president? >> sure, i think there's no question that beijing likes to see the united states struggling internally, i think it's incredibly critical that we maintain bipartisan unity on the china issue and there is a bipartisan awakening happening in the u.s. government, on china , as a problem and from both sides of the aisle people are getting the picture and we just have to stay focused on what this really means. this is the biggest challenge for our country in this century, for pretty much everybody alive today in the global arena.