hostility of israel. but biden himself is a typical center left democratic ce president. we will have our debates in this country and very vigorous ones about what he's getting wrong. but normalcy can come back fairly quickly. >> ambassador bolton, jonathan lemire. a lot of white house aides said the timing of the putin summit is to deal with him head on early while china remains -- will be the defining relationship of this presidency as it was for the finalnc month of the trump i administration. what's your assessment right now as to where things are with china andth how this administration's early steps how you think that's going. >> well, i don't think so it's going well. i think unfortunately it's of a piece with a number of other problems they've encountered. i don't see a big picture strategy for china, which just to make it clear, i think is the existential threat to the united states for the rest of the century. i think biden's rhetoric is tougher than obama's was. i think obama had a very