Sovereignty and that is an issue that is very close to the government here in beijing ok lets take a closer look at the white paper Andrew Thompson as a visiting Senior Research fellow at the National University of Singapore Still equine new school of Public Policy and joins us from singapore so as we heard our correspondent there he was talking about china now focusing on sovereignty as a huge part of its white paper can you explain why this has become the focus for chinas Defense Strategy now. Well i think if you look at the last paper in 2015 it really focused on chinas maritime interests and its security situation on its periphery and with its neighbors this paper much more is turning towards internal issues i mean its actually quite different than the 2015 paper in that it really reflects xi jinping has continued grasp of authority and his continued oversight of the p. L. O. So it also very much underscores the is a party army its the armed wing of the communist party and its very