Comment by Ryan Hass

Director of Brookings Institution’s John L. Thornton China Center and senior foreign-policy fellow.
Diplomatically unprepared. And as a consequence, both sides came into that meeting with different sets of expectations about the agenda and what would be achieved. That mistake cannot repeat itself again. Instead, both sides need to do the diplomatic groundwork of making sure that they have aligned agendas, aligned expectations before they enter the room to have this next set of dialogues.
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