i do not know if a trade war is going to force their hand. i do not know whether the president of china is capable of caving into us on north korea. so openly and after a threat like this. i would be surprised. because that is, you know, it's the shame of that. and would politically undermine the chinese leadership. >> gordon, to be clear. china does not see it in its best interest necessarily. they don't want to see nuclear war break out of course, but also, they don't see it in their best interest to have a unified korean peninsula. >> bob is actually right. this is more than just a tlorn in our side. you know, every time that north korea does something provocative, we send a secretary of state to beijing, plead for ration cooperation. as one indian general said a few