The Biden administration's foreign policy efforts are at center stage this week.

While here at home, some compromise on Capitol Hill, but big funding questions ahead.

We turn now to the analysis of Brooks and K-part that is New York Times columnist David

Brooks and Jonathan K-part associate editor for the Washington Post and welcome to

you both it's good to see you let's jump right into foreign policy and that big meeting

between presidents Biden and she. A year in the making, a year of rising

tensions between the two nations. Jonathan the bar for success for that summit was low,

I think it's fair to say, just re-established communications and reset. Did they

meet that bar? I think they did meet that bar. I mean yes this meeting was a year in the making it was a meeting that had to happen

it was a meeting that quite frankly I think the world was happy to see you can't have the two

global superpowers at each other's throats as they have

been over the last year with you know Chinese military planes buzzing US military

planes and other things that have been happening.

And so the fact that President She came to the United States at the APAC conference, or outside

the APAC conference in San Francisco, met with the President of the United States, had what seems like, looks like good

meetings, it's all for the good.

They meet, China and the United States need to talk to each other.

Even if they are in competition with each other, they still need to talk to each other. Even if they are in competition with each other, they still

need to talk to each other. David, what were your key takeaways from that summit?

Yeah, I found it quite heartening actually. I've, you know, like so many people have been alarmed by the intense military

build-up China has been doing. Their military spending has been really expanding an explosive pace, and because of their superior manufacturing

base in many ways they can out do us so for example they can produce 21 nuclear

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