so things are progressing and no one wants to see things escalating. and the chinese foreign minister has agreed to come to washington. we of course said that there was this meeting between secretary blinken and president xi. do you think those two meetings make a summit more likely than it would have been before it happened this weekend? not a guarantee. more likely. just the idea that these lines are open again, blinken going to china in a way that he wanted to months ago before the chinese balloon got in the way of that. the chinese in effect returning the favor there. having those lines of communication open are important to all sides. you hear from u.s. officials, you hear from chinese officials and i heard it from taiwanese officials as well. because without the lines of communication, the concern is that those events like a chinese navy ship pulling in front of a u.s. destroyer or a chinese jet pulling in front of the nose of a zus surveillance jet, if you have an accident i