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our china correspondent laura bicker gave me the latest from beijing.rity 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 third day, so we're expecting an update within the next couple of hours. but the last update we did get did mention some progress. first of all, you've just mentioned that there will be a call between president biden and president xi in the coming weeks. now, what we are wondering is whether or not that will lead the groundwork for a final meeting between the two presidents before president biden leaves office. is this unfinished business for the white house? and second, the other kind of progress that seems to have been made is that jake sullivan has met for the first time since 2016 for any us national security adviser. he's met a top chinese general, and they've had discussions about military to military communication. that shows just how seriously both sides are taking this. and that i

difference and areas of difficulty, this is something we will work towards. 0ur china correspondence laura bickerfact that there's going to be a call between president xi and president biden in the coming weeks. that could lay the groundwork for one final meeting between the two. mr sullivan, during the press conference when pressed by one of my questions, said, "look, there are opportunities for the two to meet, and it's very possible that they will." so that's one last meeting between the leaders of these two superpowers before president biden leaves the white house. and that kind of secures his legacy, i think. i think he wants to be known as someone who has tried to bring alliances across asia together and work with china where possible, where diplomacy is possible. i think the second thing that's come out of it is that jake sullivan has been the first biden aide to meet with a top military general here in china. to the middle east, where the world health organization says israel and hamas have agreed to several three—day pauses in fighting to enable more than 600,000 children in gaza to be v

in the indo—pacific region, the white house said: let's get more from our china correspondent laura bicker asia group and joins me now from shanghai. we are into our 30 day now. what are we to expect? brute what are we to expect? we already had _ what are we to expect? - already had two announcements from these talks, the first is the phone call between president xijinping and president xi jinping and president xijinping and president biden. there is speculation that will also lead to further meetings between these two presidents before president biden leaves office. when and how we are not quite sure so we are looking for more details on that. you think we know about this is there will be more military to military communication between the united states and china and jake sullivan has become the first national security adviser to meet a top military general. from china. meeting the vice—chair of china's top military body and a personal friend of president xijinping. it is a sign of how important it is these two sides communicate when it comes to their militaries. looking at various flashp

our china correspondent laura bicker told us about the two main issues to come out of the press c0 nfe there's going to be a call between president xi and president biden in the coming weeks that could lay the groundwork for one final meeting between the two. mr sullivan, during the press conference, when pressed by one of my questions said, look, there are opportunities for the two to meet and it is very possible that they will. so that's one last meeting between the leaders of these two superpowers before president biden leaves the white house. and that kind of secures his legacy, i think. i think he wants to be known as someone who has tried to bring alliances across asia together and work with china where possible, where diplomacy is possible. i think the second thing that's come out of it is that jake sullivan has been the first biden aide to meet with a top military general here in china. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. a bbc news investigation has uncovered a worrying trend of shopkeepers and traders in the uk buying stolen goods and selling them on. the mo

about and why the representative of the united states came to china, right now bbc correspondent laura bicker from beijing is analyzing. two main points can be distinguished from this visit. first, it is that there will be a phone call between president xi and president biden in the coming weeks. this could set the stage for their final meeting. mr. sullivan during press conference, when i asked him, said, "look, they have opportunities to meet, and it's very likely that it will happen, so this could be the last meeting between the leaders of the two superpowers before president biden leaves the white house. and it kind of establishes his legacy. i think he wants to be known as someone who tried to build alliances across asia and cooperate with china where possible diplomatically. 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 st

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tensions between the superpowers ahead of the us election in november. 0ur china correspondent, laura bickerd that this meeting came at a criticaljuncture in us—china relations, and there is certainly a lot of differences between the two. the key to these meetings is to try to manage those differences. beijing, ahead of time, has made their priorities clear. for them, taiwan is the red line and will always be the red line. they maintain that the self—governing island is part of the mainland, and president xi has vowed to retake it by force if necessary. they resist any attempts by american congressmen, american politicians to encourage taiwanese independence. they are also furious that america has given military aid to taiwan. secondly, there is the south china sea, and this is becoming a major issue in this week alone. there have been at least three skirmishes between chinese coastguard boats and filipino boats in the south china sea. and this is critical because the philippines is a key ally of the united states. and us assets, us warships come very, very close to their chinese counterpart