What's Going On?

Just having the conversation, they think, sends a signal to vladimir puddin that he can't entirely rely on china's support. The official statement from the white house m says it focused on russia's unprovoked invasion of ukrane. But after that part, this redout then goes on to say that the two leaders agreed on the importance of maintaining open lines of communication. i read that line as saying, we are not at the point of escalating this to a even a diplomatic conflict where we want, where we are seen to out about it. I think that says we may not be on the same side and thas we mayn't not agree on everything