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our economy is turbo charged where the chinese economy has high youth unemployment and lower gdp than expected. and putting their military friend on a path to defeat in ukraine. secretary blinken has the right hand to play here and i it s time to go, sit down and make clear the united states is not going anywhere in the indo-pacific. we ll represent our values and advance our priorities throughout that region and throughout the world. president biden said he hopes to meet again soon with chinese president xi jinping. i covered presidents obama and trump visiting china going to beijing and meeting with chinese leaders. it wasn t so controversial back then but seems controversial now. just the thought of having president biden meeting with xi jinping is going to generate a lot of discussion if that takes place. is that something that you would support?
state blinken may open the door on a range of issues. let s continue this conversation. joining us is congressman jake claus from massachusetts. thanks for joining us, happy father s day. i know you re a member of the house select committee on the chinese party. your goal is to protect america s interests around the world when they re being threatened by china. many republicans blasted the trip as a sign of weakness. what do you want to see the secretary of state accomplish? can he accomplish anything over there? first, thanks for having me. i disagree. secret blinken is traveling to chooir china in a position of strength. our awe alliances have all strengthened in relation to china last year.
sporadic events in a calm, professional, and ractional manner. that s the kind of discussion that the state department had going into this, saying they wanted to establish clear lines of communication to prevent something going on, for example, in the south china sea between the u.s. and chinese warships and war planes from spiraling out of control. hearing, again, a more positive and professional tone coming from the chinese side. meanwhile, secretary blinken did issue an invitation to his chinese counterpart to come visit washington. it was received and approved. there have also been agreements to enhance people exchanges and more passenger flights between the two countries. so this does sound like an improvement from the negative tone that we ve heard in the past number of months. yeah. sounds like they can go only up from here. ivan in hong kong.
president biden has spoken to this relationship as recently as last friday where he spoke to the difficulties unrelated to the u.s. take a listen. i think one of the things that balloon caused was not so much that it got shot down. but i don t think the leadership knew where it was and knew what was in it and knew what was going on. i think it was more embarrassing than it was tension. i m hoping over the next several months i ll be meeting with xi again and talking about legitimate differences that we have, but also those areas we can get along. reporter: now, president biden there saying that he wanted to or hoped to meet with the chinese president in the next several months the last time they met was on the sidelines of a summit last summer. now this trip by secretary of