 Moving outside Africa now, the U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says the United States is not stopping Ukraine from developing its own aptitude to carry out long-range strikes. The Austin who was joined by Australian officials and Secretary of State Antony Blinken held that the United States had spent well over 19 billion dollars in providing security assistance to Ukraine and asked partners to join in procuring military aid for Ukraine. And while a third Russian effort was set ablaze on Tuesday by a joint strike, a day after Ukraine demonstrated an apparent new ability to penetrate hundreds of kilometers into Russian airspace with attacks on two bases. China is watching very carefully what's happening in Ukraine, watching very carefully the response of the United States and countries around the world to the Russian aggression. And what they've seen are countries coming together in extraordinary ways to make sure that Ukraine has what it needs to defend itself, to put tremendous pressure on Russia to end its aggression, and as well to make sure that in the case of NATO, we're strengthening our own capacity to defend ourselves in case that aggression were to spread. We have, in addition to that, engaged allies and partners routinely to get them to provide assistance as well, security assistance as well.