China
The question is whether China is really capable and whether the core of countries that want to work with China are really capable of sort of reshaping and taking the world in another direction. It's worth probing and looking in detail at what your friends bring to the table. You have a Russia which is bogged down by a war in Ukraine, which requires North Korean troops to help state and combat operations, which is reliant on Iranian drones. Is this a Russia that's a partner that asks more than it subtracts from you, or not? I think it's an open question."
