in fact, mr. putin tridents that seem to be doubling down on his military campaign. a campaign that was stalled in the early days, and really, according to senior pentagon officials, remains pretty much without any appreciable change. rick, what s serum deportation of what the chinese ambassador had to say tonight? well, i was happy that he obviously didn t take putin s position. there s been a lot of reporting. jake sullivan met with the chinese foreign minister today. it wasn t a very happy meeting. there was the alliance of autocracy between putin and xi during the olympics. i was relieved that they said thought. just want to say that the piece with david sanger was terrific, and they plunge ahead.