quote, the two sides have made progress and agreements on some specific issues. kim, just the fact that their meeting is progress in this relationship that s been deteriorating, right? it s progress that they re meeting. it s progress that after the foreign minister, the foreign secretary meetings, that blinken went on to meet xi. and that the conversation is continuing. because it signals that perhaps when xi comes here for the conference this fall, the global conference that perhaps he and biden will meet. essentially what we re aiming for is to agree to disagree. china is on an expansion track. it says it s expanding globally in terms of trade. it s also expanding its control of what it considers its territory. including the south china sea area. and eventually, taiwan. whereas, the u.s. is in a containment strategy, trying to contain that expansion. and signal to beijing that, okay, we understand that you
pacific region that, let s be honest, part of an effort to try to blunt chinese ambitions, try to create norms that we agree with our allies on that we then try to get china to follow as well. so we ve been deepening ties between the united states and india in the defense sector. we have been trying to facilitate greater u.s. investment in india as an alternative to china, supply chains running through india instead of having vulnerable supply chains in china. this has been a major focus of the biden administration building on success of administrations. the reality, chris, it s connected to what we re just talking about. the chinese are saying, on the one hand, lloyd austin says he wants to talk to us. on the other hand he s building a containment strategy against china. shows how delicate this balance is where the united states wants to build up relationships that can allow it to counter an increasingly aggressive china while at the same time trying to rebuild that diplomatic econnec
but i realized this takes away this thing in me that kept me jumping into relationships where i would end up hurting people because first sign of red flag i would push them away because i wasn t ready and realized this actually is a very positive thing. do you have a match ready for t.j.? when he s ready for a human being i m here for him. that work. have a great night. let s do some text messages. we got vito illinois, san francisco should fly all their drug addicts to cancun, mexico. jerry from fresno please don t expel the demons from san francisco. they ll spread out. you like the containment
it also highlights just how far we ve come on this issue. i mean, biden campaigned remember on going back to the iran nuclear deal, and that seems very much off the table for a number of reasons. there is the issue of iran, providing drones and weapons to russia. there s also those those protests that we ve seen in iran over human rights and women s rights that have really tied his hands and pushed even democratic allies to say we can t be at the table with iran and now what you re describing david. very short timeline for iran to have an potentially have a nuclear weapon, i think really also just shows how constrained the biden administration is. right now with dealing with iran, and they don t really have any tools. it seems in their toolbox to deal with it, except for what we are seeing here on the ground in syria, which is airstrikes to fire back at some of these attacks, but that s not a containment strategy. that s not necessarily a deterrent strategy
scholar by nature, you know, i wrote a biography of dean acheson, harry truman s secretary of state and studied george kennan s containment strategy against then soviet expansion after world war two, but we are seeing under putin and expansion first in the crimea. then into the ukraine. he has a desire desire to be the peter of the great of our time. in china is getting fed up with the united states. they have a long term strategy of strengthening or taking over their ties with taiwan. they like to minimize america s military presence in the pacific . they re doing technology heist from us all the time. you know, we re right now in congress sentenced talking about getting rid of tiktok. there s kind of a where were at loggerheads, and it s not good because back when nixon was president during the cold war when he went to china 18 72. he was wedging russia away from china and playing this middle ground between them both right now. i see china on on