I think there was probably a time, you know, 30 years ago, forty years ago, when maybe there were members of the elite that were sincerely interested in a democratization of a sort. But i think oter things have happened, much in the outside world that have changed the kind of eliand and actually many views in china. I mean, the fact that this level of autocracy wasn't really expected, even in china, i don't think is is the big purzle. And as i say at the end of the book, it's weird. This complicated story of one point four billion people, continental science, economy, place of amazing diversity, and