is the president and his political handlers worried about the criticism they receive for that failure but really that s just one in a string of failures going back to the beginning of this administration that has projected weakness and intimidation on the part of joe biden towards the chinese communists. remember after the collapse of afghanistan, chinese propaganda outlets were talking about an afgan effect. unfortunately i think we may see another echo in these objects of the so-called afgan effect. laura: after all that s happened senator just in the past 10 days, the administration seems still quite insistent upon meeting with china. watch. is there an active intention to meet in munich later this week? we re always assessing options for diplomacy. i ll have to let the prc speak to wong ye s potential travel, if it has the opportunity to be the constructive and useful