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communication. cnn national security correspondent natalie atwood is joining us live from beijing. good morning. so as we said, officials are downplaying expectations for this visit. what is the hope then on both sides? well, listen, they say there have no the major deliverables but u.s. officials are calling this an incredibly critical series of engagements. the secretary of state for the first time in the biden administration, there has been into other cabinet official that has visited china during the two and a half years of the biden administration and as you said, what u.s. officials are looking for is to normalize communications between the u.s. and china. those communications simply have not been regular and the back drop here is that there has been some incredible tension between the two countries just in recent weeks. we saw two instances where there were close calls due to

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