John Davis

Certainly nobody in China wants to do that.

So that's the difference.

Okay, I understand that.

But also, when you're talking about the weaponizing of the dollar and these swap lines, it's an act of extreme aggression then, isn't it?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Hi, David.

Look, great to catch up on this because, you know, I don't think I can ever remember a time when the geopolitical issues were right at the top of the kind of business priority order, the way they are at present, right?

And there's so much happening.

And it's really interesting, you know, when you talk to business leaders and CEOs, you

You know, they feel they've kind of been in that kind of perma-crisis phase, obviously, for so much of the last decade.

But it's made them incredibly resilient.

But yet, you know, they want those insights and they want that information like never before.

As a quick take on the US, the challenge definitely remains in terms of

You know, is Europe getting its house in order in terms of, you know, making itself a better location in which to do business?

Because don't forget, that European market remains incredibly important to US investors, right?

So, you know, they want Europe to be a great place in which to do business, in which to innovate and bring their digital solutions and all of the other great, you know, US products.

They see Ireland as a really important interlocutor, right?

Partly because of the European presidency that we'll speak to

but because they just see us as a natural translator between the US business model and the European business model.