the chinese government to show a desire to continue to work constructively on the relationship. and i firmly expect on the back of that that xi jinping will be coming to the united states, absent any sudden crisis, to the apex summit in san francisco this fall, where president biden intends to be for a couple of days. so that s what everyone is going to be focusing on and talking about for the future. but as you suggest, the reality is that we do not have any high-level military-to-military ties. we don t have arms agreements with the chinese, as they are dramatically expanding their nuclear capabilities, their advanced defense capabilities, their ai capabilities in national security. and as we ve seen in the past few weeks, there have been a couple of near-miss intentional provocations/accidents in the taiwan straits and in the south china sea. and if the americans and chinese end up directly in conflict, by mistake, we don t have the level
it also matters in international opinion. the united states really is i think somewhat shielded from is the international appeal from the international tribunal and international dmourt the hague. we aren t part of that agreement, however, we support it as we ve done since bosnia and beyond. so the thing i m concerned about is how do we move forward on u.s. and russian relationships now that he s called him a war criminal. i think that title has severed or potentially damaged very badly any potential for u.s. discussions on arms agreements, a larger security settlement. i think it is positive and necessary but it has second and third order effects.
we have an agreement to work on a major arms control agreement. i started working on major arms agreements way back in the cold war. if we can do one in the cold war, why couldn t we do one now? we ll see. we will see whether or not it happens. but the thing that always a mazes me about the questions, and i apologize for having been short. if you were in my position, would you say, well, i don t think it s going to happen, it s going to be really bad. you guarantee nothing happens. you guarantee nothing happens. so far there s a value to being realistic and put on an optimistic face. look, you all said the same thing about what was going to happen when we had the first meeting of the 7. oh, biden, they re not going to buy biden s stuff. and did that happen, any of it?
families. we just before we left we re finally able to get the usmca trade agreement passed t should son hypersonic weapon that have been passed months ago. can evade american defense by the way, mike that was systems. do you believe the hype. something that could have i would take that very created 160,000 jobs for workers acroir c time going after him personally because seriously. they don t like him. the president wants to embrace, as he said, they don t like the people who voted for him which i president putin and president xi think is a bigger concern that they re missing. i think those people will speak of china. this is ridiculous. out again in 2020 and reelect they are enemies of the united states. president trump and send in a they are trying to bring down our system of government. republican house because they we have to take their threats don t want the house spending all of its time carrying out seriously and protect our national interests. mike: there are public report