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state blinken may open the door on a range of issues. let s continue this conversation. joining us is congressman jake claus from massachusetts. thanks for joining us, happy father s day. i know you re a member of the house select committee on the chinese party. your goal is to protect america s interests around the world when they re being threatened by china. many republicans blasted the trip as a sign of weakness. what do you want to see the secretary of state accomplish? can he accomplish anything over there? first, thanks for having me. i disagree. secret blinken is traveling to chooir china in a position of strength. our awe alliances have all strengthened in relation to china last year.
sporadic events in a calm, professional, and ractional manner. that s the kind of discussion that the state department had going into this, saying they wanted to establish clear lines of communication to prevent something going on, for example, in the south china sea between the u.s. and chinese warships and war planes from spiraling out of control. hearing, again, a more positive and professional tone coming from the chinese side. meanwhile, secretary blinken did issue an invitation to his chinese counterpart to come visit washington. it was received and approved. there have also been agreements to enhance people exchanges and more passenger flights between the two countries. so this does sound like an improvement from the negative tone that we ve heard in the past number of months. yeah. sounds like they can go only up from here. ivan in hong kong.
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