well i think by pulling out of the transpacific partnership the u.s. has left a vacuum in this region that other countries now are desperately trying to fill for example japan which is trying to intensify relations and trade relations with southeast asian countries it's pledged a lot of aid to countries in this region it's investing heavily in infrastructure of course to counter tyner's growing influence because you have to understand that china is poor and huge amounts of money into countries in this region especially through its belt and wrote initiative and of course by doing that it's pulling these countries into its sphere of influence economically and politically and the countries here or some of them are increasingly becoming wary of that take for example malaysia which has which has pulled out of these belt and road initiative deals and these countries of course are looking towards other players that could