themselves as a separate country. cnn reporting that a trump transition advisor who supports the independence who s involved or at least in the past helped facilitate it. which it is not a impartial state department employee. what do you make of that potential involvement? i think ivan is exactly right. this is very thorny territory. china believes taiwan is a protons. province. this would be one of the largest shifts in foreign policy in decades. and you hope it would have been thought through. would have gotten everybody in the united states government on board, we understand what it is. ronald reagan did make a few ov overtures as president, but they were considered. thought through. and calculated. and china at that point was 2% of global gdp. china today is 16% of global