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Part? something the u.s. had been pursuing. >> its very important that the united states and chinese officials meet, as bad as relations are and seem to be at this moment, china is a critically important country in the world and whether either country likes it or not, we have to keep the lines of communication open. theres too much at risk. while we work to address our very significant differences, we need to make sure that we are connected. because if were not worse things could happen. >> let ...

And got angry and threatened us. look, we need to keep the lines of communication open. i think they should be reaching out to us, not us to them to kind of resolve this. the relationship is going downhill, we need to find the bottom and build it back up. but we the american people, the western allies, democracies of the world should not be disabused of the fact that the chinese have a strategic, and that is to dominate the pacific. and change the rules to suit the needs of the chinese communist...

Modalities of communication open, china declined a call after all of this. what sort of information did that include and how is china responding? >> china is not -- go ahead. china has not been responding well and they are accusing the u.s. of overreacting. but one thing that is interesting, i think, is there was communication between the biden administration and the chinese government during this sort of balloon crisis. before it was shot down, blinken did speak to a very high ranking chinese o...

Chinese. the backdrop here the biden administration doesnt really have a china policy. if you say whats our china foreign policy, you dont really get a clear answer. so its basically a rejection or a collapse of this attempt from the if state department to have better relations with china. mike: in your view, did they make the right call in terms of calling off the secretary of states trip? would it have looked weak if he had gone ahead with his trip? >> it would have, yeah. it looked weak, fran...

Prc at multiple levels. >> that is key here, that the u.s. has continued to keep these channels of communication open with the chinese and remains unclear however whether the u.s. still going to potentially keep that option on the table of taking it out by force. shooting it down, as weve seen republicans in congress have been urging the biden administration to take some kind of major action here and shoot the balloon down. because they fear that it could be collecting intelligence about potenti...

And former chief of protocol at the state department for president obama, capricia marshal. so kelly, wednesday night double date for the bidens and macrons. a fancy state dinner. whats the impact on getting a united front regarding ukraine and what about biden potentially being open to talk with vladimir putin? >> in so many ways, president macron is the leader of europe at the moment. for a long time, we thought of that as angela merkel, who was chancellor of germany. now the landscape in euro...

Several other in europe. -- russia >> did not take the call. my staff was -- >> rusher would not take the call. that doesnt sound good to me. what do you think? >> >> i agree, i want him to talk. when general milley to be talking. kind of where they have in the past. and even when you disagree, even when you are fighting wars. indirectly, you want to have that channel of communication open. and from what i understand by the way, you have a pretty good channel communication in the past and i hope...

Businessmen that hes willing to work with the u.s. to find ways to cooperate. theyre also have been signs or hints about china may possibly tweak its position on ukraine. its going to be very interesting to see what mr. xi does or doesnt say to mr. biden on that issue in the coming hours. so, overall, the state media here and officials here are echoing their american counterparts by portraying the meeting itself as a positive sign, stressing the importance of keeping lines of communication open....

Upgrade its economy, but probably more crucially, to upgrade its military to catch up with the u.s. in recent days thats why weve seen xi jinping offering a more conciliatory tone, telling a u.s. lobbying group he is working to work with the u.s. to find twice cooperate. there have also been signs or inhibits of chinas possible tweaks on its stand in ukraine, telling the visiting german chancellor that china pose as threat and a use of nuclear weapons which many have seen as a rebuke to putin. i...

Looking ahead at the 620 the lines of communication open. looking ahead at the g20 meetings tomorrow, we are going to be tackling the issues that meet —— matter to people here but also our allies and partners. that means tackling the suffering that the russian aggression has unleashed, notjust in ukraine, but people around the world, food insecurity, and strengthening the fundamentals of our global economy for everyone. support for debt relief, reforms for unilateral development banks. inves...