hello and welcome to our viewers joining us from the united states and all around the world. i m laila harrak. u.s. secretary of state antony blinken meets with the chinese foreign minister in beijing. we ll have a love report from hong kong on the diplomatic state of his high-profile trip. african leaders visit russia hoping to help end the war in ukraine. what vladimir putin is saying about that possibility. and u.s. president joe biden hits the campaign trail. his first official rally for re-election as president. this hour, the u.s. secretary of state is holding talks in beijing to try to mend ties with china. moments ago, antony blinken began the first of several meetings with the country s foreign minister. u.s. officials say blinken s main goal is to re-establish lines of communication with senior chinese leaders, especially in the military. high-level talks have been disrupted in recent months, but u.s. president joe biden says they can get back on track. i m
raw emotion, new detailsou and more questions today. outt of all that , texas, of course, the scene from tuesday s mass murder of nineteen children and twos adults. now authorities held a presss conference. they tryingss to correct some earlier what they say were false reports. but in doing so, they also raised a lot more questions delivered. twenty eight suspects just west of here, richard. vehicle pickup truck declines offense now he s in the parking lot shooting at a school multiple times. he walks into the west side of rob elementary. it appears it was unlocked. ni what about the initial story that the shooter had exchanged gunfirey t with a school securic officer? butut i want to clear up that came out early on .it was it was r reported that a schooll district police officer confronted the suspect notkeould make an entry accurate. he walked in undisruptedd. as it n was not an officer readily available or no no officer armed at the entrance to the school. now grievi
But perhaps some individual sanction measures will be moderated or rolled back to some extent. what is the best-case scenario? i think the best-case scenario is for the chinese side. i mean, what we re seeing right now is actually very interesting. the people s daily, which is the flagship newspaper of the chinese communist party, has not mentioned blinken s visit at all. so i just looked right before getting on here. so i think kind of a victory would be for the chinese government to acknowledge that this visit was an important visit and that substantial progress has been made between the u.s. and china. and if we do indeed see some substantive kind of agreements between two sides, like having a channel of communication between two militaries during times of tension, i think that would be
Response? it s a little silly. we know what china s redlines are. they say it every day. all you have to do is look at people s daily. we know what the chinese want. we have been turning the michael talking to them five days. they have been more provocative, belligerent. we need to stop talking to china and imposing cost for increasingly bad behavior and if we do that, we have a chance of some sort of accommodation. but with the approach that president biden is taking and predecessors, too, this approach does not work. we can see it in china s behavior. todd: you are not buying this threat from biden to drawl redlines? well, you know, he made verbally do that but the point is the chinese know what our redlines are pure to be say that as well. so we have gone beyond the point of talking because when we talk, we delayed taking action.
Just the way it is. i it s this is totally disconnected from reality. but watching us today, it s essentially waving the white flag of surrender. in joiningg me now is gordon chang gates don t institute senior fellow author, the great us china tech war , gordon china is working to undermine america at every turn and blenkin comes out today and essentially says, well w, we can t really affect china s behavior. so we real going to try to use opportunities to work with them anyway. i couldn t make heads or tails of what this was supposed toha be allt about. this is really awful, laura . first of all,th china has declared a quote unquote people s war on the u.s.. they didid in two thousand with people s daily the most authoritative publication in china when people s daily speak dai.