right now, what is happening particularly today with china and russia scoring deals in the middle of this normandy stuff happening. it s a little discombobulating, isn t it? i wouldn t be too worried about that. the china russian alliance neil: are you worried this is something we ought to watch because of the trade frustrations, we have to watch china now, they might have given up on the united states? this is a sign of the new times. it s helpful for putin and xi to show the world that they have other options than the system that the western powers put in place since 1945. i think in the real world, those institutions, the big institutions, the free trade system, the way financial services works, on the whole, it works in an open and transparent way.