Just do it on your Signal app, Pete.

We will never recover from the mess these fools are making. Not in my lifetime anyway.

agreed to set up 2 way communication because we've already been communicating our "top secret" plans with anybody that will listen.

any SecDef and CiC has ever done.

how this contradicts everything media has previously presented about China's
-- cyber penetrations of our systems,
-- the two countries' AGI race and
-- the foundational difference in our two governments as to state control of media and society.

That there's mutual benefit in preventing nuclear accidents seems fair.
I guess I just get the vibe that there's more going on than they're willing to tell the public
(for which there's precedent; e.g., the public didn't know about the U.S.'s space station until ten years after its building. Probably others can think of examples).
One possibility, a weird one, is about both countries' alleged intelligence on UAP's. The so-called documentary by Dan Farah is coming out about the "disclosure movement," so there's that.

It's filtered in all sorts of ways. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Who's supposed to pick up on the other side depends on what the issue is, who's around, and what's going on.

https://thebulletin.org/2024/06/beijing-is-unavailable-to-take-your-call-why-the-us-china-crisis-hotline-doesnt-work/ does a good job, even if it's long (being long allows it to do a good job; complexity in a text message is a challenge).