Oh, yeah. And they actually do have the capability to fire weapons of mass destruction. And of the threats, China is the greatest in terms of military threat. Since I came to Congress eight years ago, we referred to China as a near peer to peer adversary. just because of their size and scope and what they've been doing. Is that fairly recent, would you say, or has that been. (22:59–23:05)
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