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Hi everybody, I'm speaking to you from a hotel room in San Francisco.

I'm here because of the Biden President Gee meeting, and in fact I set off from here last night to join

and President G for dinner which is a very nice invite if you can get it stood in a

cue for 90 minutes to get in, got inside and was whisked off to a very ordinary

little side room, which was in fact the press room I was not joining anybody for dinner

I would not be getting getting the beef or the wine there were some cans of

Coke and some cans of Pepsi warm laid out and some conference tables for us to sit at and if you hung around

for the next few hours you would be escorted into the room to stand at the back and listen to the

speeches and then escorted straight out again so not quite the night I'd hoped for.

Sarah you're not the only person having dinner with she-jin ping.

On the line is Sarah Landi who is also in San Francisco who I think we can

describe probably as an old friend of

Shijinping met him first in 1985 in Iowa where she served him with a green

bean casserole on his first ever US visits.

Sarah Landy, hello to you.

Hello, hello.

What were the circumstances of you serving Xi Jin Ping with green beans?

There's an awful lot to unpack there.

Well, that's true.

One, you know, we're an agricultural state,

so we grow some good food. In a small community the way we express our

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