散了，散了，本来还要等10月份G20时有啥习拜会，白宫下午说了这次天津会议没有这个议题。

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Q    — about the meetings that Wendy Sherman —

MS. PSAKI:   Sure.

Q    — has been having in China. I know that both sides basically came out of those meetings saying that there were disagreements.

What does that tell us about the possibility for some kind of talks between Xi and Biden? I mean, you know, you kind of set this template that — you know, with Russia — that even if you have disagreements, you're going to still have meetings at the highest level. So where does that stand and do you still see that as possible or likely?

MS. PSAKI: Well, first, let me say, broadly speaking, as it relates to diplomacy, that is how we feel. And it was important for Deputy Secretary Sherman to go to Beijing and have these meetings because we think it's important for us to say directly to the Chinese officials in private what we say in public. It's in our interest to be very clear to Beijing about where we stand and explain our concerns in detail.

And our philosophy is that we should not avoid hard topics, and they are certainly a part of any discussion we have diplomatically. There are areas where we have concern we’re very straightforward about, whether it's the crackdown on Hong Kong, ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang, abuses in Tibet, curtailing of media access.

There are also areas where we might align: the climate crisis; counternarcotics; nonproliferation; regional concerns, including DPRK, Iran, Afghanistan, and Burma.

A topic of — you know, the President continues to believe in face-to-face diplomacy. That is something he has long been an advocate for, and we expect there will be some opportunity to engage at some point. But it did not come up in the context of these meetings, and it wasn't — that was not the purpose of these meetings.