 Beijing is substantially building up its military forces including nuclear weapons without any transparency. It is attempting to assert control over the South China Sea and threatening Taiwan. Trying to take control of critical infrastructure including in NATO countries. Moscow and Beijing are deepening their strategic partnership. The two countries train and operate more together militarily. Conducting joint naval and air patrols also in the vicinity of Japan. Their economic cooperation is increasing and China has not condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Assuming that the professors are kind enough to comply with its time limits hopefully we will do a second round. We don't regard China as an adversary and we don't seek confrontation with China or actually we don't seek confrontation with anyone NATO is a defensive alliance. And we will continue to engage with China on issues where we see a potential common interest on arms control, on climate change and other issues. Which is probably one of the most difficult questions regarding contemporary strategy. At the same time we will be remiss if we did not expose the challenges that China poses to our security, to our values and to our interests.