lost a meeting with antony blinken that china wanted, an is this a sub-loss to the chinese? yes, it feels that way, and that we lost an opportunity that both leaders have been carefully trying to craft some means since the meeting in bali, indonesia, to some respect, and the balloon is a symptom rather than the disease. in other words, it is telling us how difficult it is going to be given the underlying tensions in the bilateral relationship that are not being resolved to move to that direction to have a unilateral relationship where our allies want to see and they are trying to court china in that way, but in terms of the strategic blender as we were discussing that all of the sudden that incident has caused a lot of pressure to be put on