in the future. president zelensky marks 500 days since russia s invasion of ukraine. and some allies express concerns over the united states decision to send cluster bombs to ukraine. hello, i m carl nasman. thanks forjoining us. us treasury secretary janet yellen is wrapping up her multi day trip to china, aimed at strengthening economic ties between the two super powers at a time of tension. while in china, ms yellen held ten hours of talks that she described as direct and substantive. the us treasury secretary criticised chinese curbs against us firms, and also called on beijing to work with washington to fight climate change. here s ms yellen speaking in the past hour at press conference. the us and china have
i ll quickly paraphrase what we heard of that meeting sunday saying that taiwan is the most consequential issue, the most pronounced risk in the china/u.s. relationship. going into this high stakes visit, expectations are set rather low. u.s. officials who briefed reporters said that they saw little chance of any sort of a diplomatic breakthrough given so many points of division between these two super powers, including taiwan, including trade, including technology, even the flow of the precursor chemicals that make fentanyl, these chemicals stem from china. now senior u.s. officials, they say that blinken s core goal here during this visit is to reestablish the channel of communication between these two super powers, especially direct military-to-military communications. also on the table, global issues where both nations have a stake in, have shared interests in, and could cooperate in like climate
media, and the crackdown, and he, himself said that there are hundreds of cases made of the judicious conspiracy of the oathkeepers and the work speaks for itself. thank you for helping us to digest this article so quickly. thank you. and now, after high-stakes talks happen in beijing, where do the two super powers go from here? we got reaction from china, and we will bring it to you. and this is one of the most intense gun firefights i have ever seen, as state troopers were randomly attacked and one was killed. what the police are saying about the gunman. this morning a juneteenth celebration takes a deadly turn outside of chicago. there are zero suspects, but one killed. we will take you live to the scene. you are watching cnn news central.
hopefully not allowing them to escalate, but the issues as you pointed out, they still exist. and this is a first step as you pointed out and representing something towards progress, but jim, from your point of view, p pov, where is there room to grow, and where was progress made? well, the biggest one is taiwan. i just returned from taiwan, and i met with high-level government and spent time with the military to observe some of the drills they are doing regularly, because taiwan is preparing for the possibility of a chinese inv invasion, and they are weorried there and also to be caught in between the two super powers, and they are not certain of what to do there.