would provide stability for the region and the whole world. the us and china agreed on resuming high level military communication and slowing the production of fentanyl, a synthetic opioid responsible for tens of thousands of drug overdose deaths in the us. however, the leaders are still at odds over taiwan with president xi calling it the biggest and most dangerous issue in bilateral ties. beijing considers it part of its territory, while the us maintains unofficial relations with taiwan as a democratically self governed island. for more on the apec summit, i spoke to chief presenter sumi somaskanda in san francisco. this really has been an all government approach, several members of the biden administration cabinet here working with chinese counterparts, the commerce secretary, the secretary of state, and also the us special climate envoy, john kerry, an important part of negotiations as well. president biden said, we want to make sure there is a level economic playing fi
on resuming high level military communication and slowing the production of fentanyl, a synthetic opioid responsible for tens of thousands of drug overdose deaths in the us. however, the leaders are still at odds over taiwan, with president xi calling it the biggest and most dangerous issue in bilateral ties. beijing considers it part of its territory while the us maintains unofficial relations with taiwan as a democratically self governed island. here s what president biden told leaders about the us china relationship on thursday. our discussions will always be candid and constructive. states does not seek conflict. we announced military to military communication to reduce the risk of accidental miscalculation. joining us now from san francisco is sumi somaskanda. sumi, you ve been there covering this apec summit all week. what s the latest there? on the very last full day of the summit, you might hear the rain coming down, people wrapping up their meetings, some meetings
get an agreement that would move the world in the right direction, and the president has taken enormous initiative in order to move us to engage with other countries including china and bring them to the table. some countries, chris, simply wouldn t accept the mandatory mechanism, we among them. so the best we can do in an effort to try to begin to change people s thinking is to do this mandatory reporting requirement. and the mandatory reporting requirement has to be updated every five years. and every five years it is mandatory that countries retool their reduction levels in order to meet the demands of meeting the curve of reductions which they have committed. so that is a serious form of enforcement, if you will, of compliance. there is no penalty for it, obviously, but if there had been a penalty we wouldn t have been able to get an agreement. so we did the best we could to set the world on a new course