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Pompeo's meeting with china's foreign minister started with bold aggressive language on topics like trade. that is according to pool reports. the meetings come days after the vice president launched a reset of sorts with china. cnn's alexandra field live now in seoul with more. >> reporter: joe, good morning to you. there was some tension in the room when secretary of state mike pompeo sat down with his counterpart in beijing who said the recent remarks cast a shadow and eroding trust. he was referring to the speech by vice president mike pence. the allegations of improper trade practices and ...

Things he wanted to do in eight years, and that was it and that was his focus. >> in your book, i believe you said he doesn't have a list. >> is that's right. there's no to--do list. >> doesn't have a reason to be president. >> we all have one in our head. it's best to kind of write it down and get the team, you know, you do this, you do that. but there's not a team here and the examples in the book are very clear of people taking action. >> you're sort of the opposite of donald trump. you once told me about your tradekrach tradecraft, before you start a project like this to find out what's ge...

The president will talk about what we've done as a party and government to help this country over the last year and what we'll be doing in the year going forward. you saw a lot of this during the state of the union address on tuesday night. the president is going to be talking about our achievements on the economy, where we've hit record lows in unemployment including for african-americans and hispanic americans. talking about our deregulation agenda, issues like trade. issues that we can reach across the aisle and work with democrats like infrastructure where we have a $1.5 trillion infrastru...

Like trade and immigration and convert them into top shelf, he is still fighting for now. he has a 70 point immigration plan as president. negotiating fair trade deals to work more for the american workers. he flipped states that president obama carried twice. those who still won't accept the election results, those who neither expected him nor wanted him to win, they wasted a whole year not getting to know why he won. the same reason he won: he was able to make people feel that someone was giving voices to their every day concern. the forgotten man and woman. the people living paycheck to pay...

Mostly the thing that a number of diplomats mention -- they consistently mention is this obsession that he has with obama, that in a discussion, he will ask, did obama agree with this? if the answer to that question is affirmative, he will say, i don't support this, and won't even want to have a discussion about whatever the topic is. and also consistent is how concerning this is for america's european allies. >> did you get the sense from talking with these diplomats that they're concerned that donald trump is changing foreign policy from the things that obama did, or that he just simply does...