coordination on major issues to steer china/russia relations. we formally support each other on issues concerning each other s core interests and the safeguarding of our respective national dig sit. i m very much looking forward it our winter olympics meeting and would like to join hands together with you for the future and so on and so on. what concerns does this raise for you, this overture, this partnership between russia and china? well, what concerns me is they clearly did this to irk the united states and to bug us, to, you poke us in the chest. it is childish, they re going over the top. but we have seen increased cooperation between the chinese and the russians, particularly on things like military exercise in the pacific. we have to watch it. but, you know, i was just in taiwan over thanksgiving. the chinese did not like that. but the president of taiwan was really inspirational and she said, look, you know, these