government official, the vice mayor of shenzhen, take a listen to how that went. >> we are confident in the hong kong governance that it is capable of maintaining the prosperity and stability as well as social order of the region. and our cooperation with hong kong is ongoing as usual. connell: all right. so will the protests actually be off the table at g20? edward lawrence joins us now. he is at the white house today but i believe getting set to move over to that meeting in a few days in japan. so from people you speak to at least on the u.s. side, are they okay with that to keep the trade negotiations going not to talk about hong kong at all? >> i would not say okay, but if it was brought up, it would be brought up at the meeting with president trump and president xi xinping, not before. the administration is trying to get rid of obvious obstacles in the way of this meeting. in fact vice president mike pence was going to give a speech tonight about u.s.-china relations. the chinese...