Brian Barrett

There were lots of news reports about how he was not included on the trip and how he had volunteered to go on the trip and was still not included on the trip until finally he met them in Alaska and got on the plane just in time to make it to China.

Persistence.

The trip was originally scheduled to happen about two months ago, but it was postponed because the U.S.

and Israel went to war in Iran, and that obviously complicated all kinds of things.

Now the visit comes at a time when the war is still ongoing, in addition to all kinds of other hot-button issues, trade, AI regulation, you name it, that involve both China and the U.S.

You know, the timing, they were going to do this trip at some point, right?

But the timing still seems a little bit

odd to me in that, you know, China is one of Iran's key economic and diplomatic partners.

There are so many tensions on so many levels between these two countries.

And it doesn't feel like there's any real progress in the works.

It doesn't feel like we're at a moment where, oh, we're finally going to figure out trade.

We're finally going to figure out AI.

We're finally going to figure out how to stop hacking into each other's systems and stealing everybody's personal identity.

None of that seems to be imminent.

And I guess you only get there by...

talking, but I don't know.

It seems like a strange time to do this if you actually want to get anything done.

So I guess, Leah, my question to you is, does anybody actually want to get anything done here?

What are we doing?

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