If youre tuning in to watch Fareed Zakaria, we will bring that you to as soon as we can. But right now the world is on edge as we await President Biden to speak. He is in hanoi, vietnam. And we have been waiting for some time for him to come out and take questions from reporters in a Press Conference that was originally scheduled for an hour and a half ago. But we are still waiting with baited breath for President Biden to talk about his trip. Let me bring in the panel to discuss some of the things that were expecting to hear from him. Beth sanner, what did you think President Bidens we hear in his Reelection Campaign how he is united the western world to take on the threat of russia. And to an extent, it is accurate to say that nato is more united than ever before. In fak, it has new members. I think putin is probably at least as responsible for that as President Biden. But President Biden does get good marks for his leadership of nato. But it is also true, i think it is fair to say, that china is a much greater threat to the United States and that russia, dont you think . Yeah, i do. And that is why i think that we also have to kind of give credit to the Biden Administration for working on all of the asia policy okay. We continue to have difficulty with the Prime Minister. There you go. Im so sorry. I dont know why. But the partnership especially with the japanese Prime Minister has been phenomenal. And in linking both of these these areas. The Foreign Minister of japan was just in ukraine, a few minutes ago, a couple of days ago. So i think these kind of things, thats alliances and this tripp to vietnam is absolutely essential to dealing with china as representative mccaul said. So, i think you have to give a lot of credit to the Biden Administration. There were no alliances of any consequence during the trump administration. So, i hope that no matter what happened in our election, that we dont squander these alliances. These alliances are crucial to countering china and they need to be nurtured and built. Jeremy diamond, while we await President Biden coming to the podium there to take your questions, there is some criticism here domestically of the fact that this G20 Communeay was weaker when it comes to the condemnation of russias brutal invasion of ukraine. What are Biden Administration officials saying about that, if anything . Reporter well theyre pushing back on it, jake. In particular we heard Jake Sullivan yesterday say that he believed that that joint statement shows that countries are united in opposing any land grabs by means of war. That they believe that this statement made a strong a strong statement as it relates to the idea of territorial integrity and respecting the sovereignty of other nations. But it is true that it did not include the language that you just mentioned that was in the joint leader Statement Last year. And ultimately they believe that countries like india and indonesia, other developing nations, are united in that kind of understanding. But there is no question that the fact that this statement did not directly condemn russia shows the divisions that remain in that group of 20. And that is an undeniable fact. But at the end of the day, this was never going to be a statement that fully went after russia given the fact that russia is very much a member of the g20. China, even though xi jinping didnt show up, chinese delegates were involved in the crafting of this statement and they have refused to condemn russia. So these were complicated politics. White house believes that the statement landed in the right place. But as you mentioned there has been criticism otherwise. I think the question today for this News Conference that were expecting to start any minute now, how does the president address the future of that war. We have not heard him recently weigh in too much on the progress of the ukrainian counteroffensive and there are a range of views on that front including within the u. S. Government about how much progress ukraine is actually making in that effort and one of the key questions to ask the president is certainly how much progress does ukraine need to make in the coming months in order for this International Coalition that the president has been able to maintain at least from a western perspective, how much progress do they have to make in order to maintain that support . The president is also facing this battle with congress over supplemental funding for ukraine. And that is also very much coming to the forefront now. So a lot of dynamics for the president to handle here and well see how many of those different topics hes able to address in the News Conference. David gurgen, earlier, when i asked Antony Blinken about this report in the new biography of elon musk, that musk declined to provide the star link Satellite Service that he provides in ukraine, he declined to provide it in crimea in an effort by the Ukrainian Military to defend itself from the russian navy because musk had been talking to senior russians and was convinced that if he did that, and allowed the ukrainians to launch this counteroffensive, it would lead to an escalation of the war. Blinken would say nothing other than to talk about how vital star link was. And he really wouldnt criticize musk at all, which made me conclude that the u. S. Government is so convinced of the vitality and essentialness of star link that theyre afraid of doing anything to Fooffend En Musk which said quite a bit about the power of this private citizen. It sure does. It was a startling revelation by isaac. I think it does weigh heff ill why i that were moving into a new world in which the tycoons of the Internet World can have could exercise this kind of power. We long have had statutes on the books that say that private citizens cannot essentially negotiate for the United States. That they cant be doing that. So i do think that there is a real question not just what musk has done in the past, but what does this mean about the future and how powerful individuals and in this new world, this a. I. World and Internet World, and social media world, how much that power they really do have at a time when power is seeping away from elected officials and were worried about the rise of authoritarianism in many other countries because of the breakdown of domestic governments and here in the United States now we have to decide, we have the big huge coming up on the Internet Side who are going to be players. And i think everybody has to sort of figure out what are the ground rules for those players. So the meeting the explanation as to why President Biden has been running late is that his meeting with vietnam officials ran late. And he was tending to the important business of diplomacy. But we have been given the twominute warning so in roughly a minute and a half President Biden will appear and take questions and tim naftali, i wonder if you would put this elon musk power in perspective, i know weve had in history, Individual Americans Whether Carnegie or ford or others who have had a great deal of power. But i know of no one whose personal decision and personal diplomacy have had an affect on wars. Im not going to get ask you the question. Ho here is President Biden. It is evening, isnt it . This around the world in five days is interesting, isnt it . Well, you know, there is that one of my Staff Members said remember the famous song, you know, good morning, vietnam, well good evening, vietnam. And good morning back in america. Before i begin, i wan to express my sadness by the loss of life and devastation caused by the earthquake in morocco. Our thoughts and prayers are with the people of more oko and my friend king mohamed 6th and Secretary Of State blinken who is here with me today is working with moroccan officials on Long Distance here. Were working to make sure american citizens in morocco are safe and standing to provide any necessary assistance to the moroccan people as well. We made that offer. Now turning to the important visit here in vietnam. As General Secretary and i just shared earlier today, this trip has been a historic moment. Today we could trace 50 year arc of progress in relation between our nations from conflict to normalization. This is a new elevated status that will will be a force for prosperity and security and one of the most consequential regions in the world. Weve elevated directly to the vietnamese highest tier referred to as the comprehensive strategic partnership. We have ties with another partner. Our progress builds on camp david trilateral with japan and south korea and the United States. And the partnership the United States launch with asean last year and the agengagement with e Pacific Island forum. Our strength with the philippines and aukus, our elevated quad with india and australia and the japan and the framework for prosperity, and all of the effort weve advanced from day one of my administration to demonstrate to our indo Pacific Partners and the world the United States is a pacific nation. And were not going anywhere. Now let me also speak to significant business we got done in india during the g20 summit. This is opinion important moment for the United States to demonstrate our Global Leadership and our commitment to solving the challenges that matter most to people around the world. Investing in inclusive growth and sustainable development. Addressing the Climate Crisis. Strengthening Food Security and education, advancing Global Health and health security. We showed up ready to work and we showed the world the United States is a partner with a positive vision for our shared future. As the g20, at the g20, we made progress on issues like Multilateral BankDevelopment Reform to get to nations that are neither poor nor wealth but couldnt qualify before. Debt release and increased infrastructure needs not only in the global south but oath parts of the world as well. We forged a Ground Breaking new partnership that will connect india to europe with the middle east and israel with Transportation By Rail and by shipment through an Energy Supplies and digital connections that are going to open up untold opportunities for transformative Economic Investment through that on that entire corridor. Weve also discussed russias Bru Brutal And Illegal War in ukraine. And there was sufficient need for just and lasting peace that upholds the principles of the u. N. Charter and respects sovereignty and territorial integrity. And i want to thank Prime Minister modi for hosting the g20. He and i have had substantial discussions about how were going to continue to strengthen the partnership between india and the United States. Building on the Prime Ministers visit to the white house last june. And as i always do, i raised the importance of respecting human rights an the vital role that Civil Society and a free press have in building a strong and prosperous country with mr. Modi and weve gotten a lot of work done sand im looking forward to another good day here in vietnam. And now i will take your questions. They gave me five people here. Nanda of reuters. Thank you for taking my question, mr. President. There you are. I cant see you. Im sorry. Last week china questions the Code Sincerity of the Biden Administration. Im sorry, the what . The sincerity of the Biden Administration. The sincerity. And accused the United States of containing china while pushing for diplomatic talks. How would you respond to that . And do you think president xi is being sincere about getting the relationship back on track as he banned apple in china . Look, first of all, the im sincere about getting the relationship right. And one of the things that is going on now is china is beginning to change some of the rules of the game. In Terms Of Trade and other issues. And so, one of the things that we talked about, for example, is that theyre now talking about making sure that no chinese no one in the Chinese Government could use a western cell phone. Those kinds of things. And so, really what this trip is about, is less about containing china, i dont want to contain china. I just want too make sure we have a relationship with china that is on the up and up, squared away and Everybody Knows what it is all about. And one of the ways you do that is you make sure that we are talking about the same things. And i think that one of the things weve done, ive tried to do, and ive talked with a number of my staff about this for the last i guess six months, is we have an opportunity to strengthen alliances around the world to maintain stability. That is what this trip was all about. Having india cooperate much more than the United States, be closer to the United States, vietnam being closer to the United States, it is not about containing china. It is about having a stable base. A stable base in the indo pacific. And for example, when i was spending a lot of time talking with president xi, he asked why we were doing why i was going to have the quad meeting, australia, india, japan and the United States. And i said to maintain stability. It is not about isolated china. It is about making sure that the Rules Of The Road and everything from air space and space in the ocean is the International Rules of the road are are abided by. And, so, i hope that i think that Prime Minister i mean xi has some difficulties right now. All countries have difficulties. It is an economic difficulties hes working his way through. I want to see china succeed economically. I want to see them succeed by the rules. The next question was to bloomberg. Mr. President , following up on your comments on china and the economy, you called the which i a ticking time bomb. Do you believe the slowdown could derisk stabling the Global Economy or causing china to be more aggressive say the first part of your question again. This fan is going on and it is behind me. No worries. Do you believe the countrys slow down in growth could risk destabling the Global Economy or cause china to be more aggressive defensively and including with taiwan and federally, sir, are you worried about the meeting between President Putin and kim jongun and that could mean russia has more gains on the war in ukraine . Look, i think china has a difficult economic problem right now for a whole range of reasons that relate to the International Growth and lack thereof and the polies that china has followed. So i dont think it is going to cause china to invade taiwan. And it probably doesnt have the same capacity that it had before. But as i said, were not looking to hurt china. Sincerely. Were all better off if china does well. China does well by the International Rules. Grows the economy. But they have had some real difficulties in terms of their economy of late, particularly in the real estate side of their bargain, and i think the actions that theyre going to have to have take are ones that are theyre in the process of deciding right now. And im not going to predict what will come out. But were not looking to decouple from china. What im not going to do is im not going to sell china material that will enhance their capa