serving our embassy in beijing way back when. looking at the prison of the russia china relationship ever since. i think the bottom line is that she jinping has a view of putin that they have a common cause against the united states, which represents -- for china's global diplomatic project and its regional, if it's even in asia unto rollback u.s. dominated order. and furthermore, what russia does by virtue of its actions in syria and in europe, like in ukraine, is a divert american attention. it hurts this just teaching focus of the united states away from the china challenge. for those reasons xi has an enormous attachment to keeping putin and putin's russia operational. i know the categorized events which is the europeans