re researching this book? i think it was looking beyond the u.s. and china? i think right now our conversation really focuses on these two countries and the idealogical rival that s forming between them. but if you look at the borders in other parts of the world, you see a lot of coverage and exp exploration of chinese investment like in latin america. what i was struck by is how much soft power there is complementing that. i traveled to kenya in january of 2020 and there s a number of investment projects going up, chinese train stations and roads and ports. i was in nairobi at one point, brian, and i passed by an apartment complex called the great wall apartments. but then i went out into this royal village and i walked into an apartment in the middle of the afternoon and everybody was watching a chinese soap opera. it feels like there s not necessarily a wholesale replacement, but there s more of a co kexistence with american