The Secretary of State for USA., Antony Blinken, will meet this Monday in Beijing with the head of diplomacy ChinaWang Yi, while a possible meeting with President Xi Jinping has not yet been confirmed, Chinese state media reported.
Wang was foreign minister of the Asian country until a few months ago and now occupies the head of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the highest responsibility for foreign policy in the Asian giant.
During his second day in Beijing, Blinken could also hold a meeting with the Chinese president, Xi Jinpingalthough this meeting has not yet been confirmed by either party.
The Secretary of State arrived this Sunday at the chinese capitalwhere he met for almost six hours with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Qin Gang, with whom he later shared a working dinner.
Qin warned Blinken at that meeting that bilateral relations “are at their lowest point since the establishment of diplomatic relations” and made “”clear demands on China’s core interests and major concerns, including the Taiwan issue.” , according to the subsequent statement.
Meanwhile, Blinken invited his counterpart to visit the United States, a country where Qin was ambassador before being promoted to chancellor at the end of 2022, and emphasized “the importance of diplomacy and keeping communication channels open in all areas to reduce the risk of miscalculation,” said US diplomacy spokesman Matthew Miller.
The US foreign minister also raised “a number of issues of concern” with his Chinese counterpart, as well as “opportunities” in which Washington and Beijing can cooperate.
Blinken’s visit marks the highest-ranking visit by a US official to China since the US president, Joe Bidenbegan his term in 2021a period in which bilateral relations have continued to deteriorate due to commercial, geopolitical and economic tensions.
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Source: Gestion
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