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Yeah, this is a high stakes virtual summit meeting, chance and there are some areas of alignment that White House officials to talk about that. The two leaders will certainly bring up when it comes to climate change and of course health security. But there are some big areas of disagreement. Human rights is one of those things also Taiwan and this is all on tap for conversation tonight and what is expected to be in hours long meeting meeting in our view is an opportunity to set the terms of the competition, a high stakes sit down between the leaders of two global superpowers President Biden and Chinese President XI Jinping meet virtually their most formal discussions since Biden took office with tensions spanning across issues concerning the global supply chain. two reports of Beijing testing hypersonic missiles, the top U. S. General sounding the alarm in an interview with Bloomberg tv last month. It is very concerning. I think I saw in some of the newspapers they use the term Sputnik moment. I don't know if it's quite a Sputnik moment, but I think it's very close to that. The White House overall staying relatively tight lipped leading up to the summit President, she is somebody he's spent time with, he's had face to face conversations with and because of that, the President feels that he's able to have candid discussions with President XI biden administration officials say the goal is to establish guardrails in the complicated relationship and do what is possible to avoid unintended conflict. We welcome the competition. We're not looking for conflict, china's foreign ministry signaled the meeting as an effort to quote explore ways of mutual respect and peaceful coexistence. Chinese state media editorials paint a different view with President XI expected to warn the US to quote, step back on Taiwan the US recently standing by its commitment to the self ruling island. The value of our partnership and our support for Taiwan is rock solid china claims Taiwan as its territory and has sent dozens of warplanes into Taiwan's air defense identification zone. The U. S. Accused china of destabilizing activity, cybersecurity. Reportedly a main focus in discussions on the US side. It's still unknown whether Covid an issue that brought the world to its knees comes up during the meeting. President biden had this response when asked whether he would press china to cooperate with another World Health Organization investigation into the origins of the virus back in june. Let's get something straight. We know each other well, we're not old friends. It's just your business monday's meeting set a marker for the two nations and discussions to come as China's ruling Communist Party took a rare step last week to pave the way for she to rule the country for a third term in office next year and chance we are getting some of the very first images of that virtual summit between President XI and President biden. Of course, we expect that to last a few hours so it's going to last late into the night and earlier today. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said that they don't expect any major delivery bubbles to come out of this meeting. And one thing that will be missing in particular, that's usually customary a joint statement between the two leaders in the two nations. We don't expect that to happen tonight, but we do anticipate some type of news or some type of release coming from the White House. No chance.