and a half hours of talks, plus a two hour dinner, with his chinese counterpart, foreign minister qin gang. american officials described the talks as candid and constructive, but the only concrete development thus far is a commitment from the two countries to loosen visa restrictions on each other s citizens, and to hold more talks in washington in the future. for its part, china s state media reported that. qin gang pointed out that the taiwan issue is the core of china s core interests, the most important issue in sino us relations, and the most prominent risk. right now, mr blinken is meeting with wang yi, the director of the chinese communist party s office of the central foreign affairs commission effectively the country s most senior foreign affairs official. live now to our china correspondent in beijing, stephen mcdonell. i m sure you ve been watching
they have high youth unemployment. they really want to foster good relations with american tech can executives, american businessmen, american billionaires. they met with elon musk, tim cook of apple, other senior officials in the business world in the united states. so that s their objective. now, american secretary of state, the chinese have already done a diplomatic spit in the face. what have they done? last week the secretary of state, chinese foreign minister had a phone call. at the end of the phone call they always have a press release called a readout. the american secretary of state did what everybody s done for decades. said we look forward to our meeting. the chinese had a very different conversation with their press release. they said we re going to lecture the americans, we have core interests, we expect the americans to do this, to do that. so the chinese are already putting america on notice, we re going to humiliate you, run rough shod over you, we re going to insult y
go to war for. if a nato ally was attacked, that s the core justification of the united states, we re obligated to come to the defense. and it s difficult and painful as it was today, back in 2015, 16 ukraine was not a nato ally. and that remains the case today, the united states in this war as the principal and overwhelming supplier of arms to ukraine, but we re obviously not sending american troops to fight and die in the same way we would if it was a nato ally now. now, mehdi, i believe, as do a lot of people, that this full scale invasion does threaten our core interests. it s threatens nato, it threatens basically every interest that we care about, particularly in europe as globalized, now with china s entry into creasing on the diplomatic side, used to be on the economic side, on the russian side. so, look, i think president obama s note can be criticized. but it s an appropriate warning, right. that russia is right there. this is existential to vladimir putin. he has never going
to justify not sending more aid and weapons to ukraine. and i wonder, was obama right then, but wrong now? or is what he said still correct today? what is your take? well, i mean, the technical truth, mehdi, his core interest refers to something you would go to war for. if a nato ally was attacked, that s the core justification of the united states, we re obligated to come to the defense. and it s difficult and painful as it was today, back in 2015, 16 ukraine was not a nato ally. and that remains the case today, the united states in this war as the principal and overwhelming supplier of arms to ukraine, but we re obviously not sending american troops to fight and die in the same way we would if it was a nato ally now. now, mehdi, i believe, as do a lot of people, that this full scale invasion does threaten our core interests. it s threatens nato, it threatens basically every interest that we care about, particularly in europe as globalized, now with china s entry into creasing on th
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