Because the United States and China do not trust one another, any deal between them needs compliance verification and enforcement, which transparency substantially facilitates.

“ad hoc basis you know on and on they can just keep making more agreements like that and they can just adjust them as as as needed based on the changing situation on the ground because they can all see the situation on the ground because of the transparency you know and then this also is very important because if you want to have some sort of deal between the u.s and china the u.s and china don't trust each other and so you need to have some way of enforcing and verifying compliance with the deal and the transparency of course”

“goes a long way towards helping that.”