this is the place where china hosted president nixon half a century ago when nixon reached out to china, to thaw relations there. the symbolism should definitely be noted. we just got a tweet from chinese foreign ministry spokesperson. her name is wa chung ying. she said, i hope this meeting can stir u.s./china relations back to what the presidents agreed upon in bali. she is referring to the three-hour talk that president biden held with president xi jinping in bali a the g-20 last year. really, not anything really substantial came out of those talks, other than, we need to keep talking. and that was supposed to be antony blinken heading to beijing, back in february. but of course, there was the spy balloon over the u.s. air space