senator daines from montana is recognized from his office. >> thank you. and i want to extend a warm welcome to our witness. appreciate this opportunity to discuss matters that are affecting the security of our nation. over the past year china's exerted increasing pressure both military as well as financially on taiwan and its neighbors in the south china sea. while at the same time edging itself from international pressure with new anti-sanctions laws. mr. adeyemo, how does china's decisions not to extend anti-sanctions laws into >> senator, thank you for the important question, and i think this speaks to why we believe it's critical that as we move forward on sanctions, we look forward to every opportunity, the ability to do them multilaterally. frank frankly, our adversaries are seeking ways around our sanctions every day, and to ensure they're unable to do that are making sure our sanctions are not just driven by the united states but by the international community made up of our allies and partners, while the impact of our sanctions are great, we impr