Right now. we don t know.m, s we don t know who owns them.o i gonna take anyone s so i m not going to take anybody s word at face value can n get a chancewe in to to take a look at them. are we in touch with thee chine? we chinese? we have we have ane embassyan n beijing. we we maintain routine diplomatic conversations and we have had in over that spy balloonnd incident. we did have private discussionsh with senior chinese leaders. unfortunately, the chinese secrtary is not interested in talking to secretary secretary of defense ashton, but there are still ways to communicate. and the president will tell youe that now is exactly the timenicn to at least preserve some of so thatthose lines of communico that we can avoid mis miscalculation. going on so what is going on here exactly? some things going on here, very obviously. gordon chang is a senior fellow at the gates institute. gordon, thank you so much forcog coming. so what just given everything we ve seen in the past ten days, wha