I hope people also think about the parallels with our society, it was really important to me that people didn't just see this as being a book about China. The weaponization of fear and the idea that you draw these lines and somebody is on one side or the other- all those are things I sort of saw parallels with with the demonization of people. It will make people think about what they would do in these situations. We've pretty much run out of time, tiny book, just one last question about you researching and writing this book. You know when sort of Mao says who are our enemies, who are our friends, this is the most important question and to me so much-

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