welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, i m christine romans. secretary of state antony blinken meeting face-to-face right now with chinese president xi jinping in beijing. the high stakes one-on-one is part of blinken s efforts to meet with china s top diplomat. an effort to lower the temperature amid rising tensions between the u.s. and china. cnn s kylie atwood in beijing this morning. just the fact that their meeting is a huge meeting, kylie, we learned 90 minutes ago their meeting was a go. what do we know about it? reporter: that s right, it s here in beijing, the secretary of state who is the first cabinet member to visit china from biden administration in 2 1/2 years. sitting down with president xi, we don t know much about the meeting because it s so ongoing. here s what we do know, there have been a number of hours that the secretary has engaged with chinese officials over the course of the last days in beijing. spending more than five ho
reporter: a major point of this trip was to resume face-to-face meetings and to establish military to military channels and secretary antony blinken said that something chinese leadership has not agreed to but speaking to reporters secretary antony blinken said meeting has helped with a moment of instability in relations. they wrapped up with that meeting. something that was not confirmed until 45 minutes before it started lasted half an hour and followed many hours of discussions with the chinese counterparts this comes after weeks of rising tensions last month in a chinese fighter jet came close to a spy plane and a us destroyer was cut off. and in taiwan it was among the broad range of issues that secretary antony blinken raised. listen. we do not support taiwan and dependence and are opposed to any unilateral changes.we continue to expect a peaceful resolution of differences. we are committed to meeting our responsibilities under the taiwan relations act. including th
facing in finding the vessel? reporter: jake, we just had an update from the u.s. coast guard. they confirmed how difficult this is. remember, you said about 12,000 feet. they confirmed it could be that far down in terms of the deep ocean search they have to conduct here. almost two and a half miles. they have three to four assets in the air and sea searching. the problem is that the coast guard admits, this is what they call a remote area. they re going to muster as many resources as they can and it includes commercial vessels. he was clear, as of right now while they re putting listening devices on the surface of the water to hear anything, they are relying on more resources being deployed, perhaps as well by the canadian military in the coming hours so they can launch a rescue mission in what we call a deep sea mission rescue. this will be quite difficult. he s saying they could have come closer to the surface, but the area they ve got to search is so large. they lost co
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trailing donald trump here at home. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. it is monday. i m christine romans this morning. the u. s. has no embassy operating in sudan, a country on the brink of civil war president biden announcing the u. s diplomatic personnel and their families have been evacuated from sudan secretary of state antony blinken, adding that operations that the u. s embassy in khartoum have been temporarily suspended. cnn s sam kiley is reporting on the situation from djibouti for us and sam. how was the extraction of us personnel carried out and are officials saying why it was necessary? well let s start with why it was necessary there, christine, you say it s on sudan s on the brink of civil war, i think from the american and international perspective, it is a country in the throes of a very violent, actual civil war. there are, for example, sudanese jets bombarding positions inside their own capital. and it s that level of violence