consensus was not reached and a routine of final joint communique was not published. and it s widely attributed because it was of viechlal visio rival visions between the future of trade between china and the u.s. there were undiplomatic moments, george, because the source with this incident tells cnn that on saturday, four chinese officials barged in as the source put it, essentially forced their way into the office of papua new guinea, the host country, their foreign minister in an attempt to try to influence the joint communique which ultimately was never published. now, this is after that foreign minister refused a meeting with these chinese officials. the chinese foreign ministry denies that such an intrusion did take place. that was against the backdrop of the chinese leader, xi jinping, and the u.s. vice-president mike pence, lobbying thinly veiled