the idea of suggesting, i think he was messaging the chinese and russia about serving relationships. i'm not sure what that means. i think the chinese are going to be hard-pressed to do that. and the greater strategic imperative for the chinese is north korea not implode violently and particularly and they lose their buffer state. i think that is the overriding strategic imperative for the chinese. but the speech was mostly stiff and not much carat. i wish he expanded a bit on his press conference remarks about the ordeal and offered something about the path to negotiation. if i ever drafted a speech, which is unlikely would ever happen, i think i would have tried to insert some language in there about the fact that the