Now 50 years of ties between the EU and China overall. Has the relationship improved over the years? Well you know in retrospect it depends through what lens we're looking at the development of ties between the EU and China. If we're looking at it purely through the lens of economic cooperation and trade growth there has been a period in which China-EU relations were really kind of a rogue model for many entities around the world with multiple European countries and companies benefiting tremendously from the way China has become a global actor. But times have changed and at the moment we are probably at a historic low when it comes to the overall shape and atmosphere surrounding EU-China relations both in Beijing and in Brussels. Now what's the EU's problem here? Are there just too many different member states with different priorities for China to take it seriously? I think that if you look at the communication coming from Brussels especially from Ursula von der Leyen it's very clear that there has been a rethink of strategic challenges that are tied to

I mean, the choice we think, in retrospect, was right for us, but it could have been wrong.

In retrospect, now I've finished, I see just how much it informed everything.

You see, in retrospect,

Even I'm the leader of the gang is just as chilling in retrospect.

Even in retrospect, far removed from the pressures that Truman faced in 1945, his critics can offer no serious and convincing proposal regarding a viable and less costly alternative.

In retrospect, her drunken appearance at the 2004American Music Awards may have been a sign of her downward spiral.

Look, I was really hungry and in retrospect, next time I think I should probably eat a little bit more before I come filming because everything smelled very, very good and I just couldn't hold back.

It's one thing when I can look at somebody and say they're so different from me there's no risk of me ever, you know, them ever being in my social group but when you look at people on the boundaries and people on the margins and you need to find ways to define them as insiders or outsiders you become a lot more cruel and that's where this ideology does lead to real damage being done to people because when we need to put up boundaries and figure out who's in and who's out we can do some pretty terrible things and you know I was angry at these beautiful kind people and in retrospect I wish I had just taken the time to learn from them and to listen to them and even now I respect a lot of these people they're so great but I was just angry because I had this extreme insider-outsider perspective.

Things seem very obvious in retrospect, and you're like, "Well, of course.