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Image:  Demonstration of telephone at the Formosa Memorial Exhibition   Steve Yates: 葉望輝, @YatesDCIA, @dciadvisory, former deputy national security advisor to Vice President Cheney and currently CEO of DC International Advisory;  and Gordon Chang, @GordonGChang, Daily Beast; in re:  The Biden-Xi phone call.  There are stages in a call: the real time and the after-the-fact analysis.  In real time, usually National Security Council members in the Oval office with the president;  interpretation and transcription in notes done by an NSC staffer; it’s also done remotely.  Xinhua’s report of the call:  the two presidents wishes each other good fortune in the Year of the Ox and discussed substantive matters.  Both US and Chinese read-outs were vcry brief. Why so little information about substance of the call?  US held tight controls and limited access.   A two-hour conversati9on of this sort is rarely anywhere near this long. Emphasis on climate change—filibuster? China never objected to the climate agreements [just never met the targets]. The West always met the burden of paying cash up front.   After the Secretary of State labeled Chinese treatment of Uyghurs “genocide,”  there must have been at least a bit on Uyghurs.   Initiated by the US; celebratory on the lunar new year; and the mention of an agenda beyond trade disputes—all three seen as warming signals from the US, and so announced by China. http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2021-02/11/c_139737284.htm