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the wires right now regarding this meeting that's taking play between national security adviser jake sullivan chinese president xi jinping. fresh commentary from the chinese president saying in this meeting with sullivan, he has said that china is committed to a stable relationship based on win-win cooperation. the president adding we hope the u.s. will work in the same direction as china. also commentary here from jake sullivan, he says that we are committed to maintaining high-level diplomacy. and adds that president biden looks forward to engaging with you, that is, president xi, in the coming weeks. so this is quite a surprise development. of course, we did not expect the national security adviser to meet with the chinese president. quite a significant development here. jake sullivan basically aiming to balance the u.s. need to constructive engagement with china. wong yi has said that the company to smooth development actually lies in treating each other as equals. we're going to be getting reaction to that later on in the program as well. as well as following any possible market reaction

we understand that jake sullivan and his counterpart are looking at this point to settle tensions butat, what do you think he's looking to achieve with his visit? jennifer: always a pleasure. i would actually say jake and yi have a modest goal which is not necessarily to settle tensions, but to try to manage them. it sounds deceptively simple. the u.s. and china have very different interests, very different values for i don't think either side is under the illusion that these conversations or other conversations will change the way that beijing and washington approach each other. what these conversations are an opportunity to do is flush out misperceptions, send signals to the other side about what is important to them, and where possible, try to secure small wins on areas of cooperation. sumi: what do you think china's priorities are in all of this? do you think china is especially looking towards the election in the u.s.? jennifer: i am sure beijing is watching the election very closely. i am also pretty sure that beijing will not want to raise that in this conversation. china is tr

joumanna: breaking barriers, jake sullivan since down with the top tiny -- chinese general is both nations aim to improve military dialogue. spain and germany cpi data out later this morning. will let you know what to expect. the big focus for the investing community are around nvidia earnings that came through late last night, and let us get you an evaluation of how markets reacted to, because even though nvidia's top line revenue doubled year on year, it investors were disheartened by some of the guidance that came through. we will talk more about the specifics of what came true from that earnings call mom -- call, but what you need to know is nvidia stock traded lower and having an impact on the nasdaq 100. futures o-ring -- opening lower. that there was a lot of nervousness into this earnings report. s&p futures leaning negative. euro stoxx falling from negative momentum. asia opening 2% weaker. u.k. index opening in positive territory. switching over and taking a look at cross asset, not a lot of movement as far as rates are concerned. the u.s. 10 year yield has not done much overnigh

jake sullivan is in china. meeting with chinese mr. wang li. bloomberg learned the bank's incoming c.e.o. is considering cutting layers of middle management when he takes charge next week. let's get a quick check on these markets. it is august. last week of august. people are away from their trading desk. you are seeing some marginal positivity. futures higher only by 1/10 of 1%. the same over at nasdaq futures. it is very slim peckings from the index levels. i want to go to the asset picture. we're on wait and see mode for the equity market for nvidia. the market is doing something a little bit wonky. this is still pricing in a lot of cuts going into september. after a very strong two-year option yesterday. the currency markets to me are really interesting cable hit another high 132 handle great for ex-pats leak myself. the cuts over in the state are pushing dollar lower and lower keeping currency at the elevated level. we're still monitoring what's gong nonmiddle east and venezuela and what the chinese demand picture looks like. all of that f

the second moment of this trip, jake sullivan was the first assistant. biden, who met with a high-ranking general here in china. general zhang is a close aide to president xi. they met to talk about communication between the military. that's what's important, because in hot spots around the world, from the taiwan strait to the south china sea, the two armies are coming closer to each other, and what they're trying to do here is reduce the risk, find a way that they will be able to negotiate and avoid miscalculations and misunderstandings. so, i would say that there are two key ones. moments from these three days of negotiations, and finally, i would note that the tone of these meetings has changed. 16 months ago , there was almost no communication between the united states and china after a chinese spy balloon flew over north america and was shot down there. we spoke about this incident with the us ambassador here in poquina and he said that after those events it was very difficult to arrange a meeting with any a chinese official. and so we see three day

moments ago at the white house, national security adviser jake sullivan spoke about what this moment means for the negotiators who spent years pulling this deal together. >> i spent a lot of time with the families of evan and paul and alsu, and most of the time, as you can imagine, those are tough conversations. but not today. today -- excuse me -- today was a very good day. >> but the elation, the freed americans and their families must be feeling today is matched by sadness for the americans who will remain in russian prison. many on bogus charges. gabe gutierrez is at the white house. what is the white house saying, and i understand that we have yet another photograph that is very telling about what is happening today? >> reporter: yeah, that's right, chris. those photographs just within the past few moments if we can put it up, that the white house just put up a picture of those americans heading back to the u.s. look at that picture, chris, and see on the left side of the screen, evan gershkovich, just look at his smile and how different he looks from just last month when he was

jake sullivan, the national security adviser here at the white house, he was engaging his german counter part throughout 2023 and 2024, but the real breakthrough in this, chris, was in january of 2024, when president biden called the german chancellor and invited him to the white house. the president told the chancellor that a prisoner swap would be on the agenda for the meeting, and the goal was for a deal to include alexei navalny and the release of vadim krasikov. things changed after alexei na valueny was found, and that really knocked the sails -- the wind out of the sails of the negotiations. when navalny died, the idea of a swap involving navalny and vadim krasikov, as well as whelan and gershkovich, the white house had to agree to a plan b. there was a lot of back and forth over the next few months, and as we were told, this was ongoing up until the last couple of days, chris, that the president was on the phone with slovenian officials just an hour before he announced that he was stepping aside from the presidential race. because you can imagine how much of a dramatic moment tha

yesterday, it was an emotional jake sullivan.was a big player here organizing this, analyzing it and staying in close touch with the families. they were involved almost every step of the way. >> reporter: that's right. this was a painstaking process, as you laid out. a process that took nearly two years. as you laid out in that time line, it came together in the last two weeks or so, that detail that it was president biden about an hour before he announced he would not seek re-election, that that final piece of the puzzle came together. another person that the white house is saying played a critical role is vice president kamala harris. you heard jake sullivan detailing what role she played. saying at the munich security conference in february, she spoke with the german chancellor. we are learning from another white house official who said she asked the staff to leave the room except for one of her aides. she moved the ball significantly. also during that conference, spoke with the prime minister of slovenia to help this come tog

but jake sullivan did notably in this briefing labeled him as wrongfully detained. that is a formal label that typically comes from the state department and he did also tell our colleague, kayla tausche in this briefing that in getting this deal done, there was no direct contact with vladimir putin, but of course, the number of russian officials were involved in negotiating this. and us officials are very much stressing that none of this means that there is going to be a change in the u.s. russian relations, which of course remains credibly tense mj lee live from the white house. >> thank you so much. and we want to share with you a photo just in a new photo showing whalen gershkovich and kurmasheva on the plane bringing them back to the united states. all smiles on what is a historic and emotional day for these folks and their families? actually want. to discuss with someone who's had a personal stake in evan gershkovich being held in russia, and that is almar latour, the ceo of dow jones, and the publisher of the wall street journal. thank you so much for being wi

>> sandra, jake sullivan the national security advisor got emotional at the podium moments ago. and "the wall street journal" newsroom as she showed here in washington, d.c., burst into applause after receiving the news that it's a reporter evan gershkovich had landed in turkey and exited a russian military plane. he was 1 of 4 americans including paul whalen who had been passed over in previous prisoner exchanges, alsu, and vladimir kara-muza who serve as a pallbearer at john mccain's funeral where they will be met by high-level officials who have been working on these cases for years. 82 russians in exchange for my four americans and 12 other dissidents the deal involves the seven nations but really came down to the chancellor of germany who had to take the difficult decision to release the killer that killed an officer in berlin, that and they had been holding these innocent american ponds to secure. alexie was part of the deal and suddenly died in a russian prison. secretary of state antony blinken and vice president harris made appeals during the munich security conference

since then, things have changed, and jake sullivan has met wang yi on four other occasions. conflict. to ukraine now, and ukraine say they now control 100 russian settlements in the kursk region of russia as the incursion continues. president zelensky is speaking right now, let's take a listen. translation: , , ., ., .,~ let's take a listen. translation: , , ., ., ., ~ ., translation: they try not to talk to me about that. _ translation: they try not to talk to me about that, but _ translation: they try not to talk to me about that, but i _ translation: they try not to talk to me about that, but i try... _ translation: they try not to talk to me about that, but i try... table i me about that, but i try... table ten is still here. thanks for having me, mr president. injuly, the in july, the president injuly, the president announced the eu had _ injuly, the president announced the eu had requested transporting of gas across— eu had requested transporting of gas across the _ eu had requested transporting of gas across the ukrainian territory. since — across the ukrainian territ

we also sought to release mark vogel as well as you saw from jake sullivan. we are actively continuing to do so and are engaged in active instruction of how to get that and how to get a pass to get him home. i don't have anything to read out on a recent conversation with their family. speak of the federal reserve yesterday signaled since the pandemic, does the white house believe is a good idea question asked the guy will not comment comment on any potential decisions they are independent we respect that so i won't on that. >> to circle back, jake did make the point that he believed this would not have happened if the president was not the one in the oval negotiating. >> sandra: okay, john we have been watching a very emotional reaction from jake sullivan as he detailed the swap calling it the most complicated in history. he did say to expect those who were freed to arrive in the u.s. tonight there they were as they were holding the american flag and we will look forward to welcoming them back on american soil this evening. >> john: from the white house to fo

jake sullivan played his role, tony blinken, secretary blinken played his role. bill burns at the cia played his role, roger carson. this does not happen without close allies that you value and that value us. and at the ends of the day people keep saying since the cold war -- nothing like this has happened since the cold war. i know the cold war pretty well. this is the most complex investigation ever in the history of dealing with moscow, and it comes about as a result of dealing with serious diplomacy with close allies. >> chris, can you talk about that precise angle that ambassador mcfaul is mentioning, the notion of this multilateral agreement negotiation, all the moving pieces and just how unusual that is from the perspective of a hostage negotiator. >> well, i think the ambassador hit the nail on the head. everybody points back to the cold war. this had so many pieces on the diplomatic end, the multilateral approach,ner gauging several different governments who had different equities and the german government had to give up a significant concession themselv

here's a national security advisor, jake sullivan. i explain why it is that we feel we have to take some targeted restrictions to ensure that advanced technologies aren't used against us national security. i explained that our approach is one of the risk and not the coupling and described in some detail how we saw the risk in practice. and i also raised our concerns about steps that the p r c has taken with respect to the intersection of economics and national security and the impact that that has had on western businesses i and on supply chains. and so we had a vigorous given take on the issue during jake sullivan's meeting, a chinese president, she hailed the traditional friendship between china and the us. so i asked to me 3, a pair of it's founder of the think tanks, silverado, policy, accelerator and author of world. on the brink, if he thinks this is an accurate description of their relationship, i know not, not even close. look, the reality is that we are in a new caldwell with china. as i argue in my book, china knows that the

sullivan: i don't follow. reporter: thank you, jake. ents u.s. officials had with vladimir putin as part of this? mr. sullivan: no engagement directly with vladimir putin. reporter: what about his deputies? mr. sullivan: there was extensive engagement with russian officials over the course of this. i'm not going to get into the details because those channels are sensitive and need to be protected for exactly this reason, because having those sensitive channels enables us to produce results like today. reporter: and then, last week, in the oval office, president biden said that he remains committed to bringing americans home during his final six months in office. how important was it for him to get this deal before leaving office? mr. sullivan: honestly, i don't think he was thinking about it like, “i got to get it before i leave office.” he was thinking about it from the families' perspective, which is, “every day is a lost day, so i want to do this as rapidly as humanly possible. i want to push the pace on it because the longer that the

let's turn to china now, because the us national security adviser, jake sullivan, is on the third andnese military officials. his trip to beijing is seen as an effort to create more dialogue and reduce high—stakes tensions — with the white house wanting to avoid any miscommunication that could lead to conflict in the region. on wednesday mr sullivan met with chinese foreign minister waang yi to set up a call between presidentsjoe biden and xijinping. the white house said both sides "welcomed ongoing efforts to maintain open lines of communication, including planning for a leader—level call in the coming weeks." 0n china's influence in the indo—pacific region, the white house said "mr. sullivan underscored the importance of maintaining peace and stability across the taiwan strait." our china correspondent laura bicker gave me the latest from beijing. well when it comes to the national security adviser, jake sullivan, and china's foreign minister wang yi, the two have met on four other occasions. this is the fifth time, and they do seem able to talk for a very long time. we're into our

the read, all right, may staying with china is lead a caps 3 days of high level talks. jake sullivan, of those talks come at a time of heights and tensions between the super powers across a range of issues, dw, east asia correspondent chain james chase that has this report. so it communication . china stopped implement wong in talks with us national security advisor jake sullivan, but it's the 1st trip of an american national security advisor to china. since 2060, or in recent years. these 2 officials have met several times in the countries, often to stem spiraling tensions between the 2 superpowers. but this is the 1st time basements engaging on the agenda. managing friction across a range of issues including china is growing relationship with most go as well as tensions with more symptoms asian parts, like taiwan. president biden has been very clear these conversations with president, she is committed to managing a support relationship response. he moved with the taxes, the coming us selection donald trump has promised to double down on his tough stones, toward badging from his last

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it's a magical moment, and i think jake sullivan's, was surreal.e with families. i want to point out -- i fear adversaries are going to feel this level of attention, i applaud jake sullivan for what he's doing, there's this level of attention, the hostages in the white house, could result in more hostages being taken, we spoke about this earlier. this is a huge success, but there needs to be a broad effort by the u.s., germany, europe, all of these countries to stop hostage taking by governments, and it's growing. so it's a big step forward, it's a big achievement of president biden. i would watch in the weeks ahead, if he will announce some sort of strategy to punish countries that do this financially to somehow create a cost. this is what jason talked about too, so states can't do this, it's a problem. it's russia, it's iran, venezuela, hamas, you know, kidnapped over 200 people. 100 people are still held hostage in gaza. a joyous day, very disturbing trend. >> we are learning more and more details from this deal and the release of people like ev

and as jake sullivan himself set a wild back, intense competition requires intense diplomacy. you think there are any areas where grounds will be made to? the lament i think one of the features that this particular dialogue is that that they don't set out to achieve deliverables. the announcements that come from both sides are usually fairly short. they try to talk about the president's instructions to their respective governments and how they are being implemented. but one thing i would mention that some senior us officials have signalled is that they may talk about one more meeting between president biden and xij—mac. now that president biden is not running for election, he may attend to the apex summit meeting later this your work, it could be both, the g20 meeting. this will be held in south america. —— apec meeting. south america. —— apec meeting. so there is an opportunity for xij—mac and president biden to have a meeting in person and if you want a to use the term deliverable that is something that could come out of this meeting. next — to a deepfake pornography scandal

i asked her earlier about the significance of this meeting between jake sullivan and the chinese president. i think it's, as you mentioned, a highly uncertain and volatile time in the relationship. we have ongoing conflict in ukraine in the middle east. we have a new administration in taiwan. you have chinese aggression in the south china sea against the philippines. and we also have a very dynamic us election cycle happening right now with major changes over the past month in terms of aerospace replacement and fighting on the democratic ticket . so i think given the binary restriction strategy of managing periods, attention and ensuring that competition does not lead into conflict, a visit really make sense in that context. and i think china is watching very carefully the selection. and it's probably wants to know the future direction of us china policy. at this stage. you mentioned some of the issues, but china are in the us seem so completely oppose on. and so there are so many issues. so what is it that drives them to keep talking and what do they have to lose if things go from bad to

remember this visits of jake sullivan was the fast and h is the 1st time and national security advisor has helped me things in china since 2016 him. and while you have held several of these things over the past couple of years in various campuses around the world, in moments of tensions between the 2 sides, there really, this is the 1st time you've helped me. they felt major meetings in b, j. and of course i crucial meeting with his home, committed tree official, john your shots. this isn't at the top of military general, someone who's very close to the president choosing things until we also understand really has to be a recision pink. one of the key outcomes we saw from that meeting is this pledge to re engage on the minutes we from to re establish a strong government of treason. but as for communication member, this is something that upside is around the world. that really big concerns are looking at the us china relationship over the past couple of years. the officials have really stepping up and saying that they wants to hold ministry close between to mom is of the faces where the

how does jake sullivan count of the narrative in these meetings?ese competitors, and a very unfair way. that issue has been systematically analysed and dealt with, i think joe biden�*s team continued the trend from the trump administration. china tried to use this kind ofjob narrative but everyone in washington, dc tends to agree right now that the issue is not one particular policy, its systemic and the fundamental problem is we embrace china which is a nonmarket economy into a market—driven system. that's an issue that the industry will not be able to solve. europeans yourself have said that the relationship you have with china is one of systemic. that is basically more institution than ideological. from what you're saying, do you think regardless china tried to use this kind ofjob narrative but everyone in washington, dc tends to agree right now that the issue is not one particular policy, its systemic and the fundamental problem is we embrace china which is a nonmarket economy into a market—driven system. that's an issue that the industry will

to china, to beijing, of the national security advisor to the president of the united states, jake sullivangan. this is the first visit ever us national security advisor to beijing for 8 years, and jake salevan's first visit in this position and this visit is taking place at the invitation of a member of the cpc central committee and the minister of foreign affairs. china one and both american and chinese sources say that this visit will last, firstly, 3 days, it will end on thursday, and jake salevan and ivan yi will talk for 10-12 hours, during which time, naturally, they will discuss the entire spectrum of us-chinese relations, issues on which the positions of the two sides clash, and where else cooperation remains, and the taiwan issue, the south china sea, and... strategic stability and issues of trade and economic relations and the restrictions that the united states is imposing against china, especially in the technological sphere, the situation in ukraine, the situation in the middle east, and so on and so forth and so forth, and as the new york times writes, even they can discuss a

visit to from the white house in terms of whether the national security advisor jake sullivan's trip to china was a success. it was not 100 percent according to the words of the national security advisor. it was a vigorous given take, but there was not an actual agreement coming out of those meetings. instead, what he says he was able to do was to raise us concerns about the import of chinese technology into the united states and how that does affect not only us national security, but also economic security. the other goal of this meeting was to try and, or rather the 2 days of meetings was to try and send the message ahead of the us election in november. that if comma la harris is the current us, vice president in the, by the administration is to become the next president of the united states. but she does have the experience of dealing with chinese leaders that she would be able to carry on what is currently a somewhat stable relationship between the united states and china. the message that was sent by the national security adviser isn't harris chairs biden's view of what has been

now, we did hear jake sullivan pushed back against that today. he actually said that he doesn't believe there is any real evidence to suggest that based on an analysis that he says was carried out by ambassador there, roger carstens, who is the u.s. special envoy for hostage affairs, who does all of this negotiating around the world. so when asked how they can prevent this kind of thing from taking place in the future for americans getting picked up in the future and then eventually having to be traded, they answered this is why americans need to find hello, are suggestions and right now of course, the biggest suggestion for russia is simply don't go there. that is something that is, that it's told to american civilians, to american business people, and to us as journalists as well. it's really drilled into us that you are in danger interests territory if you are in russia, i believe i heard our steve hall say that earlier today that it is a terrible idea. they go there so that you don't end up in a situation like this yeah. >> and alex talk a li

the rad direct meeting with china is lita caps, 3 days of high level talks to jake sullivan. of those talks come at a time of heisen tensions between the super powers across a range of issues together dw, use, east asia correspondent james chase, a reports now showing this top diplomat twomey in talks with us national security advisor, jake sullivan. it's the 1st trip of an american national security advisor to china since 2016 or in recent years, these 2 officials have met several times in some countries, often to stem spiraling tensions between the 2 superpowers. but this is the 1st time basements engaging on the agenda, managing friction across a range of issues, including china is growing, relationship with most go as well as tensions with more symptoms. asian products, like taiwan, president has been very clear. these conversations with president, she is committed to managing the support response hanging over. that's what is the coming us selection. donald trump has promised to double down on his tough thoughts towards aging, from his last time in office night, including

what are we expecting these talks between jake what are we expecting these talks betweenjake sullivan chinese counterpart to focus on? ,., ., ., focus on? good morning, where state media _ focus on? good morning, where state media are _ focus on? good morning, where state media are describing - state media are describing these talks is coming at a criticaljuncture between us critical juncture between us and criticaljuncture between us and china relations. when we are expecting him to arrive we are expecting him to arrive we are not sure, later today betting time but you mentioned it a bit earlier. taiwan is one of the clear issues, china is sitting out its priorities for these talks. taiwan is a redline for beijing, they believe the self—government island is part of the man—made and will not tolerate any encouragement by america of taiwanese independence. they want to make that clear. they have in the past and they will do so again. when it comes to other tricky negotiations, another area will be the south china sea within the last few minutes in fact the philippines hasjust minutes i

do you think jake sullivan is seriously running the white house on these different issues receiving the call that what happens in there on what happened in lebanon? and then just reacting directly to it, i mean on those attacks, i don't know what you thought of the fact that he knew it was in washington. and then there was a meeting between that of the c i and most of that in rome. and then all these attacks that started happening, and you don't think joe biden has any involvement, particularly in the strategy now. you know, and i think if you go back and look at job, i know for several decades, joe biden, of 20 years ago or 30 years ago, would never have done the things that we've seen him sign off on over the last few years. this is another point that i made. most of these executive orders that have opened the border and created the enormous products we have inside the country was criminality. and the rule of law essentially suspending the rule of law for all intents and purposes, releasing criminals onto the streets and mandating the settlement of millions and millions of people abou

it's a anthony blinking, and jake sullivan and being the drawings are loudly about these past 3 or 4 years. i think because conditions are very serious and they realize that the, the future of our republic and our way of life here in the united states hang by a thread. i think they know that. but it really makes no difference what i say, or what they say. what makes the difference is what the american people opt to do. and unfortunately, when you deal with great powers, like the united states history teaches until the population itself suffers. not a great deal will change until we see people at home harmed directly as result of the things we do overseas. as until we see our standard living fall apart, our prosperity collapse. i don't, i don't think most americans will be moved to do much and that's why i was trying to get the point across that right now. if you look at the people that president trump wants to install in places like the state department, the department of defense and other key cabinet pose, you're looking at the people that are there now. well, they'll be different p

severed between nsa, jake sullivan's office in his counterpart in germany. i mean, this was sort of the secrecy of it. how different is something like this just because of the sheer size of it? >> it reminds me actually the planning of the osama bin laden mission that they kept it in a very small group of people. and yet i'm also thinking about the relief and the elation of that small group of people who've been working on this that has to include not just the national security advisers office, but roger carstens, the hostage envoy, and his team from the state department. >> now rodgers started this job under mike pompeo's state department and a lot of the same people have stayed with him and they've worked this 24 not for days or months for years to get to this point to get dave whelan out in addition to paul and alsu, who was taken more recently? and it it reminds me so roger is green beret and their motto is dale press olivera to free the oppressed. and it's, it's really nice to be talking about the great news of these people being released. and i would a

jake sullivan, i know has been directly involved and many of the hostage cases and the president and homeland security adviser are involved in all of these. it really is important to highlight the special presidential envoy for hostage affairs, roger karstens and his team, their relentless trying to bring these americans home. they come up with this operation and synchronize it, it takes a lot of moving pieces and they also build continuance he is should things go wrong. the one thing really worth highlighting is these are difficult decisions we will have critics on, people will constantly sharpshooter, you released this individual but you only got this. well, as jake sullivan highlighted today during the briefing, these are considered, there is a risk assessment and leaders make decisions based on that and ringing americans home safely has been a focus of this administration and in fairness to the trump administration, they did that as well, the obama administration put the pieces in place with the review and restructuring of the hostage enterprise. it is good to see things coming t

is all tents, and people were living in this area to the white house national security advisor jake sullivan says the us is concerned about the guys, a conflict escalating to the wider region ceasefire talks have been taking place in cairo during those talks from us demanded the israel commit to the proposal, put forward by us president jo button. in a statement, the group says we confirmed or readiness to implement what was agreed upon in order to achieve the interest of our people and stop the question against them. we stressed them cairo, the necessity that any agreement include a permanent ceasefire and a complete withdrawal from the gaza strip and must include the freedom for residents to return to their homes for relief and reconstruction, and for a captive prisoner exchange. randa slim is a senior fellow at the middle east institute in washington dc, and she says the us was the only negotiating party who seemed optimistic about the progress of c. sparks is the only effect party that seems always ready to inject optimism and talk about the progress of phillips has been the united state

is it surprising that we are seeing jake sullivan, the u.s. national security advisor, meet with such a critically important head of state in president, xi jinping, in china? what does it say about the state of the biden administration? >> i think what it says is that the biden administration, and, you know, president xi jinping are getting back to where they were a couple of years ago, which is trying to put a floor underneath the u.s.-china relationship. i mean, it has been on a downward trajectory. both countries wanted this relationship, they were working towards that, certainly the meeting in san francisco between the two presidents was a way to get there, and then the balloon incident, where the spy balloon from china came over to the united states set everything way back. we are now getting back to where we were, both countries see that we definitely have to have communication, because the tensions are very high and, not just, you know, not just frustrations between taiwan and china, but also in the south china sea, and the risk for an

what do you think about jake sullivan heading back to china?i think what we're seeing is china using its friends to distract from what it really cares about which is grabbing philippine islands and shoals in the south china sea which is consequential. xi jinping looks like he is trying to start a war. and many people will say now we've got to talk to the chinese. but the problem is, we've been talking to the chinese intensively throughout the biden administration and things have only gotten worse. so i think we need to change course and we need to say we have said everything we possibly can say. we are done talking with you and we're now going to start to act and in the south china he sea unfortunately that means we need to flood the zone with the u.s. navy and air force to see we will defend our ally the philippines, this is one of those moments like czechoslovakia in 1938 or poland in 1939. it is that serious. cheryl: but the question is, will we do that in particular when biden's only going to be in office through january. we'll see. turning

. >> the timing is bittersweet for president biden and jake sullivan who worked in the deal because if it had been earlier maybe president biden would be on the ticket. to speak of republicans reacting to the win poking holes. of trump posting on true social aren't negotiators are an embarrassment to us. i got back many hostages and gave the opposing country nothing. >> we have to ask ourselves why are they coming home because that because all of the world recognize donald trump's about to be back in office so they are cleaning house. >> president biden and vice president harris will greet the wrongfully detained americans together when they arrived back on u.s. soil just a few hours from now 11:30 eas eastern. there are still negotiating with russia to get pennsylvania schoolteacher mark vogel home, and effort harris may need to pick up if she's elected and president biden does not get that done during the remainder of his term. >> bret: this was quite a process. a lot of secrecy, a lot of making sure they got on that plane. >> so many moving parts, when you have six countries and rus

this is the us national security advisor, jake sullivan, saying that that prisoner exchange includesmericans, one us resident, five germans and seven russian political prisoners. that detail from the us russian political prisoners. that detailfrom the us national security adviser. i havejust been detailfrom the us national security adviser. i have just been looking and we have it on our screen again, at one of those tweets from the wall streetjournal, saying... russia has three to the wrongly convicted wall streetjournal reporter, evan gershkovich, ince part of the largest and most complex east— west prisoner swap since the cold war. in the last few minutes another tweet from them saying, the evan gershkovich case unfolded over three continents involving spy players, political ad series and is loosest advocate, his mum. no doubt a political on an operation, painstaking and detailed, has gone on and taking a very long time to make this exchange happened. yes. make this exchange happened. yes, absolutel , make this exchange happened. yes, absolutely, this _ make this exchange happened.

but jake sullivan has been the lead on how to approach these crises overseas, ukraine, israel, hamas s an incredibly smart guy. let's keep in mind that in a biden administration, i don't care what your policy orientation is, biden is a foreign policy guy. has been for decades. in senate, as vice president, and as president. slowing down a lot right now. but still, you're working in a biden administration, you are following the president's lead on foreign policy. that would be very different in a harris administration. i think that there would be a lot more room or principals in the cabinet to take the lead on foreign policy issues where they have expertise and responsibility. and i also think the importance of marshaling that, coordinating that, and coming to common positions with recommendations for the president will be very important for phil gordon and anyone else in that position under harris. having said all of that, i do want to mention that specifically on china, which in many ways is the most important u.s. foreign policy, certainly the biggest adversary for the united states

so 1st of all, the lines that we're hearing out of jake sullivan's meetings. the us in china have agreed to direct talks between ministry commanders. and so we've been talking about the countries to lead is meeting all tensions deescalate thing i think the, the, the level of tension is high, but fairly stable actually in the region. and, and jake sullivan's visit is intended to maintain that atmosphere of stability in the relationship. so that things as, as a reporter said to not escalate or, or become a self perpetuating cycle of action and reaction. the bite administration has made a clear choice, a couple years back to really a concert at lee engage with china in china has risen to that occasion. and, and they've had some product useful outcomes from these discussions, particularly after but. and then she met in san francisco last year, but, but it is an ongoing and then difficult process of maintaining communication so that things don't get out of hand and, and, and visiting and revisiting the same, talking points over and over again in a way that, that 6

the way, the favorite argument of the chinese themselves, china does not do anything... before jake sullivan'sbeijing, the united states included a little more than 46 chinese companies in its sanctions lists, precisely because of the cooperation of these very companies with russia, the new york times, now sullivan has arrived, after that the new york times wrote that he will try to put pressure on china so that china reduces the intensity its cooperation with russia, and today the white house has indeed confirmed that it has already put all the pressure on, and the white house has made a statement. and in order to prevent further escalation, which will certainly happen if donald trump wins, then it would be better for china to make some concessions to the united states now, including possibly on the russian issue of relations with russia, and is this so, do you allow for such a possibility, if so, how about it? claims against china regarding cooperation between russia and china, well, that's firstly, this is really a topic that they are pedaling, and secondly, these are also americans, in ame