 some of the defense investments that have been made as the marine corps commandant discussed yesterday at brookings are now panning out it's not just a biden administration thing by the way it's the trump and biden administrations which ironically on this issue have actually had a great deal of continuity at the pentagon in particular but maybe even more broadly than that and and so there is a sense that through military but also economic instruments and especially through tightened alliances in the indo-pacific region