painful and change creates a lot of chaos. So really the thing to do is to brace for that and to understand that big China recoupling is out. Total decoupling is an unlikely scenario right now and a recoupling is certainly an unlikely scenario right now. It's a messy middle that we have to prepare for. And so it's complicated, tough, chaotic times ahead. So superficially this looks like a very unilateral approach by the United States, which you can see even evidenced by the blanket tariff bands and the tariffing of our close allies and partners in Europe and Asia. Is there any talk about this administration looking to pivot, maybe again, maybe this is all part of some strategy, to pivot into creating some kind of new trading block or ecosystem that relies more on countries with which the US is aligned or has friendly relations? And how are China's trading partners? We saw talk about the, again, these are superficial readings of headlines coming from my end, but the South Koreans, the (33/45)
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