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Hello Dr Coates, how are you?

I'm doing well, Rich.

Don't you have to not silence me?

Well, you're you're jet lag lag not me and I'm acting like

I'm jet lag that's for sure you just got back from some overseas trips I heard I did we

were in Japan and Taiwan with Dr Kevin Roberts with the president of heritage on his both of our first trip to the Far East. I was just saying to Matt I tend to get bogged down in the Middle East, but this time I managed to get all the way to the

Far East and we went to Taiwan and Japan. It was really an incredible trip.

Very cool. And Kevin Roberts who did a great job at the World Economic Forum setting them straight.

Fantastic.

I still love that speech, one of the all-time best.

That he did and he, know it was it was interesting you know he really gave a lot of Frank

Little tough love to you know to our Asian partners, but we were very gratified with the degree to which both

Japan and Taiwan have shifted their posture particularly on China over the course of

the last decade are being much more aggressive about their efforts to

both raise their defense expenditures, coordinate with the United States, you know, prepare economically for potential Chinese move on on Taiwan, you know, and at the same time, you know,

expressing to them that we have to learn the lessons of Ukraine, we can't drift into a similar situation like that, and that's the hard work we can do now.

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