traveling with secretary blinken and she is joining us live from beijing. officials, kylie, are downplaying expectations for the visit. with the expectation so low, what do they hope to accomplish? reporter: yeah, well, listen, what u.s. officials are saying we shouldn t expect deliverables out of these credibly high stakes two days of meeting that the secretary of state has here in beijing, but they are calling this a very critical meeting for the secretary. here s why. their primary goal in beijing is to reestablish communication between the united states and china. regular channels of communication, which, frankly, have not been up and running particularly when testimonies could to military-to-military conversations. and the backdrop for that is just look at what s happened in recent days. there have been two close calls, military incidents in the south cheney sea both in the sea and in the air between the u.s. and