scheduled. it is important to know, china has a vested interest in engaging with the u.s. on an economic and trade issues, particularly because there has been a slowdown in their economy recently, after their post covid economic boost. and just last month, there is an all-time record high rates of youth unemployment in the country. and that was cnn s kylie atwood reporting from beijing. earlier, i spoke with columnist and editorial board member with and i asked him what concrete progress was really made in resetting the tense relationship between the u.s. and china. concrete progress is a very hard to define given the nature of diplomacy. well that both sides have said is that they will keep talking which i suppose, you could say that is the ultimate goal of any diplomatic initiative as long as two parties keep, talking and in this case the two most powerful countries and
thinking about the difference between the two of them. yes, so important to make the differentiation. tom, thank you so much for talking with us. appreciate it. thank you for having me. coming up next, the u.s. equity of state wraps up his trip to china with a key meeting, anthony blinken is saying about the progress made during his visit. a little later, a ferocious 11 hour firefight in the west bank, we will take you to jerusalem, to find out what s the it off? and what the u.s. is now insisting israelis and palestinians can do. back in just a moment.
crucial given some recent close calls it would seem. the progress was made on the issue of fentanyl, with plans to set up a working group on the deadly drug, but taiwan still remains the toughest challenge for both nations, doesn t, it what needs to, have been on that issue? is it even solvable given both sides are pretty much our opposite ends? i do not think a solution that neatly ties up all the issues into is conceivable or possible, you pointed out the failure of any progress on military to military communications, this is very important in the context of china, because there is a lot of military activity around taiwan, the taiwan straight, the chinese navy, the chinese air force, the taiwanese defense, forces and american ships and aircraft not far away from the area, there s always a risk of something going, wrong to planes flying to close together, ships miss
tensions between the two nations. the tea issues remain unsolved, cnn s kylie atwood has details. secretary of state anthony blinken casting u.s. china relations as a work in progress. at the end of his two-day visit to beijing, coming with tensions between the competing nations have never been greater. it was clear coming in that the relationship was a point of instability and both sides recognize the need to work to stabilize it. after about ten hours with the country s top foreign policy officials, linking kept his visit by, sitting down with chinese president xi jinping. the chinese leader saying, the two sides have made progress, but on one major objective the biden administration officials that out to accomplish, standing up military to military channels of communication between the, superpowers blinken left empty-handed. china has not agreed to move forward with that, i think that
time. then they will do a joint press conference which is unusual forjoe biden. he doesn t do a lot of those. he doesn t always perform all that well in those. then we will see if anything with regard to the concrete progress. see if anything with regard to the concrete progress. obviously as you are talkin: concrete progress. obviously as you are talking about concrete progress. obviously as you are talking about earlier, concrete progress. obviously as you are talking about earlier, there - concrete progress. obviously as you are talking about earlier, there are l are talking about earlier, there are issues the prime minister would like to talk about but there are issues perhaps joe to talk about but there are issues perhaszoe biden would prefer not to talk about. for example artificial intelligence. wade is the us stand in terms of regulation because rishi sunak is very keen. there has been a lot of warnings from leaders in the technology sector here and some people on capitol