Wildfires ravaging the west hurricanes pounding the east election that is distracting all of us everywhere pandemic pelting the Middle America and all of that stuff is just here theres a whole world of woe out there things we should be paying attention to lets talk about it with john siddle leidys geo political strategist truly trilogy advisers john is a diplomacy consultant to the apartment of state glad to have you back john china is always looming large. And our relationship is fraught while every nation is staggering to recover from the cove ahead chinese g. D. P. Is actually growing and thats conspicuous that they attribute that to their early aggressive response to cove it is the usa disadvantaged accordingly. Holland 1st of all its good to be back with you and your audience im so glad were starting with this very important question because this is in many ways about what the future of the global order will look like and a lot of this is predicated on how china and frankly the Ch