done it, no. president xi and i had a very strong relationship, just like i did with kim jong un of north korea. brian: the administration says oh, as soon as the balloon came out and people are trying to figure out why this happened. it really happened first in 2019. they say they have been sending balloons during the trump administration. but there is no proof of that. and we don t even know where they pulled that out. that s the something that biden administration s always does it. happened before: cuban spy with the russians setting up a cuban spy station in cuba. well that really started in 2019. as soon as they hit controversy they say it started in the previous administration. you just know trump would never ever have allowed to traverse the country. ainsley: not for that long. brian: hurt somebody in montana shot it down when the people of montana said shoot it down. there is nobody here. ainsley: how long was it in the air a week? brian: what was in it? ainsley: on
china talking past the government which he thinks is not worthy of these ceo. you want to m do business and me money this the way to do it. secretary of state couldn t have gone weaker position. he lands and a lower official with a foreign ministry greets him, no red carpet there. then he goes for 7.5 hours of talks. now the objective is establish communication. but it takes two sides to do it. and begging for communication for matter of weeks, begging for this meeting the first since 2018. despite the fact that they are cutting off our destroyers, cutting off our fighter jets, despite the fact that they are building a sophisticated spy station in cuba and sent over a spy balloon and are mad we shot it down rather than apologizing, to me, you go over there on the back foot and from what happens from here, it s hard to be optimistic. what their goal was this: to stop the restriction that americans are putting on our allies on their purchasing of
meeting. reporter: this 35 face to face encounter was xi jinping, china s all-powerful leader is why president biden sent secretary blinken to china. you have an obligation to respond. reporter: and intense diplomatic push to avoid conflict with the nuclear power. last month a chinese fighter jet buzzed a surveillance aircraft weeks before a warship nearly collided with the u.s. ship. and two days of talks, the main goal was to provide chinese officials resuming contract between the two militaries. cut off since august last year. this was a hot item more regular engagement, regular communication so that they understand what we are doing and not what we are doing. but xi jinping did not agree. and the defense minister with an excuse of why he does not return calls. china recently expanded the spy station in cuba to intercept
are distrust. let s remember, the u.s. has sanctioned chinese leaders, including the minister of defense. i think it s very difficult for the minister of defense to engage the defense secretary in the united states, while he is being sanctioned. and so this kind of tit for tat behavior, which has gone on since the trump administration, really, and just continued with biden, this is the kind of thing that i think these talkses are seeking to break through. so if they can do that, this will be a success. all right. speaking of mistrust. president biden has publicly, recently, anyway, tried to downplay the spy balloon issue, but how do they handle this and reports of a chinese spy station in cuba, as well? beyond the military thing, there are some issues that both
just being drafted. they want to head this off. they want to reduce the sense of threat they ve been creating. now, whether they ll do anything concrete about it is another story. fentanyl is one issue. will they issue a communique saying we ve stopped the precursors, will they close down the cuban spy station, will they stop the harassment of our ships in the taiwan strait and the south china sea. these are very specific issueses. we put together a hundred of them in a report called winning the new cold war at heritage foundation. we re just going to check to see if this communique on monday to or tuesday, does it solve any of these hundred problems or is it just going to be diplomacy for its own sake and trying to reduce the sense of threat among those house ore palins so hay don t really draft any legislation to hurt china. that s what s at stake, i think. mike: there s a divide today among some republicans about whether or not antony blinken should be there. in your view, should he