and from some of the actions?" from the un vote, china decided to, you know, instead of supporting russia, they abstained, and from other signs that apparently chinese state banks have not really opened up their coffer extended loans to russia as many expected yet. but china did lift the ban on importing russian wheat and energy. of course, china is buying lots of energy. so, those things will offer russia money. of course, china has a kind of sort of mirror version of that with taiwan, doesn't it? i remember seeing something on weibo, the chinese equivalent of, i don't know, twitter or whatever, somebody writing now would be a good time to go into taiwan. do you think that's what the leaders believe? we did see a lot of what they