Smith. And maryland, the president trying to handle growing threats in the pacific. A new Military Exercise Program to Counter China and north koreas ambitions. John and during the announcement, one reporter squeezed in a question about National Security concerns over the president s son. Listen here. Administration view this investigation as legitimate and the administration concerns that Hunter Bidens ties to china pose a National Security issue . I dont have any comment on that. John the white house shutting down that line of inquiry, trying to focus on the task at hand. Jacqui heinrich is live at camp david, with the podium behind her, the leaders will soon appear. Its significant to note just how interesting it is you are going to have these three leaders appearing on the same stage together. Two years ago the deputy secretary of state, Wendy Sherman had to appear solo on a Stage Following a trilateral event with the two countries and u. S. , the Japanese Foreign minister objected
here right now on cnn. hello, everyone. i m christianne amanpour in london. welcome to the ammanpour hour. in the next 60 minutes, we will take you around the world, to ask the questions, tackle the big problems, and let history be our guide. here is where we re heading this week. nobody s hands are clean. is america reaping of the consequences of value in the middle east? the former. df soldier joins me, before israel s last invasion of gaza. this is a leadership that i don t really trust. guns alone are not going to defeat hamas. two super heroes, a high stakes meeting months in the making. it is time to ratchet down the temperature. my exclusive conversation with one of biden s top china whisperers, u.s. commerce secretary gina raimondo. also ahead mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. 34 years ago this week, that wall finally did come down. from the archive, my interview with reagan s partner, the last soviet leader, mikhail gorbachev. and finally, why
taiwan, it s driving long time foes, japan and south korea, which have a bitter history together, and good on the biden administration for bringing them together for this summit. there s been discussions about enhancing cooperation on cybersecurity, on nuclear deterrence and trade, i expect discussion of that. areas of concern, whether japan and south korea will support the united states and efforts to keep taiwan de facto, and they have a lot of investment in trade with china and so it s going to be tricky to navigate that. it s a good start and means a lot. the biden administration has pivoted to asia, and bases in the philippines, it s good to project power with the help of our allies who are a force multiplier for us. aishah: you have to get australia on board, too, you see a lot of lawmakers heading that
to share the with the people. i wonder if there would be an uproar and counts the number of times president obama reset with russia, and pivoted to asia. the counts are running about the same. but it s interesting bush gets focus for doing another reboot. at some point you just have to go. you don t need to label it. just do it. harris: don t fix it, do it. andrea: what s the difference in the reboot. sandra you mentioned he needs to talk about the economy. he s been talking about the economy. where is the new screen? sandra: a lot of this a lot of this has been about physical appearance. he s pointing out he has gone the advice to ditch his glasses, change ties.
american policy. some of the middle eastern nations not or sensed the united states was perhaps turning its back on that region when the president announced his pivot to asia. given we have pivoted to asia, how would you assess how things are going with china? the problem there is, there isn t enough of a pivot. if you ask the people around china, japanese, south koreans, australians. they d like to see a greater american presence than they see right now. they re worried that we re still kind of bogged down in the middle east. and they wonder whether with this rising china militarily, they re going to be able to count on us the way they have over past decades. and with regard to the middle east, two years ago the president said assad had to go. assad is very much will. syria is the greatest problem right now. iran is the larger problem in military terms. but in syria, where the president said he s got to go. the president will walk to the edge of a military strike on