respect our core concerns. stop undermining china s security, and development interests in the name of competition. the state department is hoping for a realistic approach to manage the competition of world powers in a responsible way. if we want to make sure as we do that the competition that we have with china doesn t veer into conflict, the place you start is with communicating. lloyd austin said that the united states is working on a weapons draw down package for taiwan. the same way the united states has used to ship much of its weapons to ukraine. it seems at least that is on hold. there s no update on how soon that might come and it may be because the united states doesn t want to put that out there and risk something so sensitive as taiwan disrupting the attempt to reopen channels with china. cnn in the pentagon.
communication. but at the highest level of the military, austin has not met with his chinese counterpart in a year. blinken is now trying to thaw toes frosty relations as beijing maintains a deep distrust about washington s intentions for the region, and for china. the u.s. needs to respect china s core concerns, stop interfering in china s internal affairs, and stop undermining china s sovereignty, security, and development interests and the name of competition. the state departments that is not expecting a breakthrough from this visit, just a realistic approach to managing the competition of world powers in a responsible way. if we want to make sure, as we do, that the competition we have a china doesn t veer into conflict the place you start is with communicating. defense secretary lloyd austin told lawmakers one month ago that the u.s. and the biden administration were preparing all weapons sherrod aoun for taiwan, that could ship quickly
achieve and make a landmark victory in the senate. once inflation production act officially passes the senate. it still has to go to the house and be voted on. he will most likely also pass there. how is the white house savoring this moment? well, they are savoring. i think it is the right way to put it. the feel like they ve been in the back foot, messaging wise. they feel like a lot of the things they ve already been doing have not been given proper vetting by the media. so this really gives him the opportunity to take something to voters, other than the infrastructure bill that passed so long ago. and they have the chance to actually start telling people the message, because only even with the infrastructure bill, there is where the people don t really know about, it doesn t really understand. it and it impresses some of their core concerns. is called inflation production act. so they can go out, and they literally have something that has the name of what people are most concerned
seem to address or take into account russia s core concerns. and this just in moments ago in munich, germany. the archbishop holding a news conference after a damning report found he and pope benedict xvi mishandled sex abuse cases in the arch buy sees. he has apologized to the victims saying he is shocked and a shamed. cnn s delia gallagher live for us in rome with more. delia. reporter: well, brianna, the press conference is still going on. it s been going on now for about an hour. cardinal marx did not address the two allegations against him. he has been speaking about repeatedly being shocked reading this report. let me give you a few things he said. the report represents the dark side of the church. the church was a place of fear
position. that s the opposite of what president putin was saying. he was prepared to engage in negotiations today. president putin was saying if there are to be talks, it has to address those core concerns of russia. here you have president biden saying we can talk about transparency on both sides of line. we can talk about arms control. we can talk about strategic stability but we re not going to go to the other issues. i think that was a clear message for president putin about the level where any traffic of diplomacy can go. it was interesting he tried to speak around the russian leadership as well as to the russian leadership. saying russian, he didn t believe they wanted to go to war with the people in ukraine being their brothers. that s very much how people in russia view the people of ukraine. they are all, you know, the same people. that there is no reason to go to war. it was a direct appeal to the