anything was accomplished. we have to provide that deterrents. i don t believe this president is capable of doing that. harris: republican lawmakers are criticizing president biden s meeting with china s xi. they are lighting him up for not confronting xi over covid origins and other important issues. i said this before the president had really said much yesterday. how can you talk to china and not talk about covid? anyway, they are accusing the president of being lectured by communist talking points. in a new op-ed retired lieutenant writes biden s weakness was on full display in xi meeting. the president was no match for china s tyrant. as you might expect the administration put a rosie spin on the whole thing. you just can t put a price tag on the power of personal relationships. you can t surge or phone in trust and confidence. you have to earn that. and the president believes that
those operations around taiwan in response to nancy pelosi s visit. david, the u.s. national security adviser jake sullivan says the biden/xi meeting will be focused on, quote, sharpening understanding of each nation s priorities. is there any way to find any common ground with the chinese these days? one of the other questions i have in the back of my mind, just based on what we ve seen take place in these midterms, i was just talking about this a few moments ago with phil mattingly, is that typically presidents are meeting with xi jinping with a lot of domestic, political baggage on their backs. president biden is not going into this meeting in that kind of situation at all. if anything, his positioning of things, his democracy versus autocracy on the world stage has been strengthened hasn t it? that definitely has been strengthened. a few months ago, certainly a year ago, no one would want to have replicated the american
buying tremendous amounts of soybeans. they re just starting now. soybean traders tell reuters there is no evidence that china has resumed buying american soybeans and government data shows no sales to china since july. china is by far the largest purchaser of soybeans and the trade wars has decimated that industry in this country. you may recall that right after the latest trump/xi meeting, trump tweeted that he agreed to reduce auto imports to the united states. trump said now i think they re looking to do it quickly. coming up, a look at axios one big thing. and more between president trump and democratic leaders as they clash over the president s demands for a border wall.
its power will always overshadow the negotiating power. and yet, nothing animates the trump administration more than its opposition to multilateralism of any kind. so, as the world gets more chaotic, the forces that could provide order are being eroded. and as is so often the case, china simply watches quietly and pockets the gains. for more, go to cnn.com/fareed, and read my washington post column this week. let s get started. i want to talk about george h.w. bush s legacy, but also this weekend s big g-20 meeting with our panel. richard haass was on george h.w. bush s national security council as senior director for near eastern affairs, and then director of policy planning at the state department under the younger president bush.
i do think he s the businessman. in part because of the political costs of the chinese counterterrorists. but i don t think it s clear whether this is a truce that will lead to a deal or to a cease-fire. what i do think is that he s pivoted faster than he otherwise would have because he needs a win domestically. this is the only place out of the g-20, out of this whole week with the mueller investigation, that he can point to a win. i think there was a good chance before he was going to go through january, raise the tariffs to 25%, and then pivot. that s his negotiating style, but because of where he is domestically, he did it sooner. does that mean the problem is solved with the u.s./china relations? no, the problem is not solved. this meeting was bake today go well. i m not surprised they made actual meaningful progress at the g-20. trump, i think, does want to