view their position in the region and the world, and what rules of the world order that they choose to follow and not follow. i think the biden administration quite rightly recognizes that, and what you ve heard from all of these officials in the days leading up to this visit is that they have low expectations, it s good to meet and to be sure it s good to meet, but they don t expect any real substantiative progress, at least not coming out of this first meeting. they said not to expect a long list of deliverables. or a short list. but they are covering a whole range of subjects, including the chinese support for russia and the war in ukraine, the fentanyl crisis. so if there are not going to be a lot of deliverables coming out of h this trip, what is a successful trip for blinken here? i think if blinken gets to meet with xi jinping, that will pave the way for a meeting between xi and biden at the apec summer this november in san francisco.
to fulfill the pledge to america that many in the gop made in 2010. do you accept that they re only, basically, fulfilling a promise that they gave originally? well, they ve been fulfilling this pledge over and over and over this year. we ve passed scores of bills that either take away women s health rights in general or take away women s reproductive rights. so i don t know how many times they have to fulfill this pledge at the expense of fulfilling what should be everybody s pledge, which is to help create jobs for the millions of americans out of work. so are you suggesting that in purely cynical terms, what they re trying to do is have this kind of what you said was a war on women, in order to injure the president? is that really who they want to injure? and they re using the issue of women s reproductive rights in order to undermine the possibility or even prevent the possibility of there being any kind of substantiative progress through the congress on this
mentioned, mr. president, and the ongoing meetings that we have held and that we will continue to have in the immediate future have been especially important to our bilateral relationship, so as to generate confidence, the confidence that we have today. we know today that we need to continue to be personally involved, so as to ensure that the objectives that we trace are reached, such as those dealt with today. and we have broached the following subjects today. first, internationally, or at the international level, we have reiterated that mexico and the united states are authentic strategic partners, as can be seen by our joint work on the global and regional agendas. we have achieved substantiative progress, as mentioned by president obama, as matters such as climate change during the conference of the parties number 16, and now we have made efforts