will be no doubt hours worth of talks as both sides i guess explain their grievances, their frustrations about what has taken place and the deterioration in the relationship. experts would say u.s./chinese relations are at their worst in decades. so a lot needs to be rebuilt. but really, this is about re-establishing those lines of communication. we know that the last time that antony blinken spoke to china s foreign minister was just a few days ago, and that was a rather terse conversation in which qin gung told blinken the u.s. needs to show respect to china and it needs to stop interfering in china s internal affairs. the last time a u.s. secretary of state visited china was back in 2018 with mike pompeo. so a lot is at stake here. as you heard from joe biden, he is now hoping to meet with xi