we re not looking for a new cold war. secretary antony blink en meets for the first time since the president canceled his trip to beijing. i ll ask the secretary of state. plus, critical moment. there is no doubt these are crimes against humanity. the u.s. accuses russia of crimes against humanity as the war approaches the one-year mark. i don t think the ukrainians would collapse or fall. i think they ll continue to fight. will the u.s. and its allies defeat putin without boots on the ground? we ll get a report from the front lines. and primary fight. america is not past our prime. it s just that our politicians are past theirs. nikki haley is the first republican candidate to challenge donald trump, but she s not ready to criticize her former boss. the problem is the media wants everybody to be 100% trump or 100% anti-trump. i don t work that way. may the best woman win. i ll ask one potential candidate who is considering jumping in the race himsel
of ukraine s is to arrive at a place where we leave things so that it s likely that russia repeats the exercise a year, two years, five years later. so, broadly, i think that s what we re aiming at and certainly what ukraine is aiming at. in terms of the specific contours of where we can achieve peace, these are fundamental ukraine decisions. and, finally, spacex, which is owned by elon musk, has been providing starlink capabilities to help ukraine, but apparently they ve restricted some access where ukraine can t use it for some military purposes. given that spacex is a u.s. military contractor in some things, have we asked elon musk to change his policy there and essentially be on the side of ukraine and not to, quote, unquote, be neutral here? well, i can t share any conversations we ve had other than to say we ve had conversations. well, i think that answer tells us something to read
beginning of the war. to tom s point, they made that warning early and very clear and publicly. a lot of that has been clear. we know in the last year china s economic trade with russia has only deepened, and that means imports have increased with some 40% from russia. exports over some 10%. even though they imported less drud crude oil overall, last year they imported more from russia to the tune of $60 billion, and that undermooins the west to further fuel the war in ukraine. let me shift the conversation to a larger question. tom, is our domestic politics actually going to ratchet up tensions and you ve been with china for us to watch for 30
losing more troops now than at any stage since this conflict began, if russia is willing to loose that many troops, over time ukrainians will be dangerously low on both anti-aircraft and regular ammunitions. richard engel getting us started. thank you. turning now to my interview tony blinken. i spoke with secretary blinken saturday evening directly after his meeting with china s top diplomat and i asked him about the growing tensions between the two countries. i know you just got out of a meeting with your counterpart wang lee of china. i read the readout. we have stated what you said to him. what i am more concerned with, what did he say to you? number one, did it begin with an apology for the balloon? chuck, i don t want to characterize what he said. i don t think that would be appropriate, although, i can tell you, no, there was no
i think so, chuck, because if you go back to the start of the war president biden spoke with president xi and jake sullivan spoke with his chinese counterparts and they made one major point. you will not intervene militarily in this war on russia s side, and if you do it will affect your two largest export markets and the european union and the united states of america. the fact that a year later china is considering that according to the administration, i find harrowing you find it believable? why would china do this? it s interesting. i think china, first of all, they would like the war prolonged because it keeps us tied down and we re burning through all our weaponry and all of our military stocks. also, they like a weak russia that s forced to be economically dependent on them, but they don t want a collapsed russia. that s a very bad signal for taiwan that if the west can take russia down. so i think the chinese might be concerned about that, but i think you you can t