 brought up a few hours ago and that we've all been debating a little bit, which is the Russia-China nexus. But that takes me, Secretary Gates, to a piece, a really terrific piece you wrote in Foreign Affairs that appeared at, I think, the end of last year. And let me just read back to you a paragraph that I think you opened the piece with because it jumped out at me at the time you wrote it. The U.S. now confronts