Welcome back. The relationship between the United States and china has been severely tested during president biden s term in office. But since may last year, the Us National Security adviser Jake Sullivan has developed something of a connection with wang yi, the senior Foreign Policy official in beijing who answers directly to xi jinping. They met four times in the last year, a channel of communication that has served as something of a Shock Absorber when tensions arise over taiwan, ukraine, the south china sea. Today, sullivan arrived in beijing to continue that conversation, with some suggestion that the two president s might be laying the ground for another meeting Beforejoe Biden Leaves office. Its really interesting, this, annabel, because it seems Jake Sullivan is the back channel between washington and beijing right now, and to what and . Because theres been some Sabre Rattling in respect of ukraine and the special materials ageing is applying to russia will do you think it coul
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Voicing support for the withdrawal from afghanistan. They issued Commune Keays on the threat proposed by china and russia. This is ahead of the meeting with Vladimir Putin and the buildup is tense. Joining from us brussels cnn White House Correspondent Kaitlan Collins and clarissa ward. Kaitlan, first to you, swe expected to to start ten minutes ago but as expected sometimes these run behind. What will we hear from the president. I think there are a lot of questions about the Upcome Summit with the russian president , because really there have been so many moments of the trip, the first trip abroad since taking office. That really is going to be the defining meeting. And the white house is fully aware of that. I think what people are looking to is what they thinks he is going to get out of the meeting with putin. They are not holding a joint Press Conference. He justified that by saying he doesnt want the review of the meeting based on how the Press Conference looks and whether or not
Voicing support for the withdrawal from afghanistan. They issued Commune Keays on the threat proposed by china and russia. This is ahead of the meeting with Vladimir Putin and the buildup is tense. Joining from us brussels cnn White House Correspondent Kaitlan Collins and clarissa ward. Kaitlan, first to you, swe expected to to start ten minutes ago but as expected sometimes these run behind. What will we hear from the president. I think there are a lot of questions about the Upcome Summit with the russian president , because really there have been so many moments of the trip, the first trip abroad since taking office. That really is going to be the defining meeting. And the white house is fully aware of that. I think what people are looking to is what they thinks he is going to get out of the meeting with putin. They are not holding a joint Press Conference. He justified that by saying he doesnt want the review of the meeting based on how the Press Conference looks and whether or not
Voicing support for the withdrawal from afghanistan. They issued Commune Keays on the threat proposed by china and russia. This is ahead of the meeting with Vladimir Putin and the buildup is tense. Joining from us brussels cnn White House Correspondent Kaitlan Collins and clarissa ward. Kaitlan, first to you, swe expected to to start ten minutes ago but as expected sometimes these run behind. What will we hear from the president. I think there are a lot of questions about the Upcome Summit with the russian president , because really there have been so many moments of the trip, the first trip abroad since taking office. That really is going to be the defining meeting. And the white house is fully aware of that. I think what people are looking to is what they thinks he is going to get out of the meeting with putin. They are not holding a joint Press Conference. He justified that by saying he doesnt want the review of the meeting based on how the Press Conference looks and whether or not