What was your biggest takeaway out of this Biden she
Bilateral Summit? So thank you so much for having
me, Anne Marie. It's really a pleasure to
be here. Um I would say that this is
just uh beyond sort of expectations. Um and to
go maybe a little bit uh far is, is
, is beyond really our wildest dreams like we have
um we have seen the continued deterioration of us China
relations. I feel like every time I go to
Washington, uh all the conversations there just veer toward
negative and more negative and then to go into China
and to see how much people want to engage,
but also how concerned they are about the the direction
um to really have these two leaders come together uh
in a friendly way and, and to, you
know, come to, to some agreements that may
or may not come to fruition, but to at
least like give lip service to that and to,
to, to be walking and, and, and
, and looking at cars together. This is a
, this is a huge step. I know that
the Chinese Foreign Minister called this a milestone event.
And I think that uh everyone feels that way.
This is, this is not what we expected.
And um it is a really great um event and
uh and and progression for us China relations that I
think I'm excited about and my colleagues are as well
. Suzanne. There was a big game of expectations
as always going into this meeting and that a lot
of people saw as being long overdue. Some folks
thought small gains were achieved. There were maybe expectations
for a deal to unlock sales of a Boeing 737
Max's, for instance, there was talk of pandas
, but we got a couple of important things here
including the deal on counter narcotics and of course military
to military communication and I wonder which is more important
to you. So um because I'm a security person
, I I think that both of these uh border
on things that are very important to me. And
I, I think that on the in terms of
the crisis, right, the the potential for a
crisis in the South China Sea, the military to
military uh reinstatement of communications, that's just huge.
And in terms of deliverables, what this is going
to look like is that, you know, telephone
conversations between uh commanders are gonna be the theater commanders
are going to be reinstated. And you know,
it's not just at the highest levels, it's also
at at at lower levels and we've got subs underground
under, under the the sea we've got, um
, ships on the sea, we've got planes in
the air. We have so many opportunities for,
uh, just accidents to happen. And when you
don't have those lines, it can communication open the
way that it has been, uh, it's gonna
be, uh, a, a really big shift
that is, uh, very important in terms of
ensuring safety and just ensuring that there's not miscommunication that
, that, that, that they're able to,
to talk to one another and to have to,
to for so long, you know, since,
since August of last year that the just these lines
of communication have not been open. And so that
is essential. Uh on the other side, we're
seeing uh the US and China coming together on uh
counter narcotics and this is something that is uh a
big concern about policing in China. It's a big
concern for police in China. Um They've been trying
to China, uh the Chinese side has been trying
to um get as many agreements as possible. And
on the US side, you know, we we're
facing a fentaNYL crisis and to actually go in and
uh stop some of this production of uh the,
the fenny uh precursors uh will hopefully have a,
a major impact on human lives here in the United
States. So I I really hope that uh the
the deliverables for this one will be um will will
, will be achieved because this is, this is
had the potential the real potential to, to impact
lives and to also achieve stake goals from both sides
. So I think this is uh these, these
are both two really, really great uh developments.