interested in reengaging right now. i m wondering whether that is at play here? yeah, it s from where i sit the chinese think they sort of have the trump administration in a bind. right now they ve got they re helping north korea, as far as i can tell, enabling and providing political cover for north korea. and that s been the number one foreign policy issue for the trump administration in the short-term. you still have iran and other problems, but they re still trying it deal with this issue and the chinese know it. so the chinese feel empowered like they have all of the cards with the trade talks because they re the ones that are necessary for actually implementing an accessful maximum pressure campaign. if the chinese and the russians and the south koreans relieve economic pressure, which they re doing, really, the economic pressure campaign starts to fall apart seriously. neil: do you know what s been in a lot of the letters the north korean leaders sent? some of them as a kid