China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Secretary of State Antony Blinken speak to reporters after a bilateral assembly on the State Department in Washington. (Image: Reuters)
Wang Yi mentioned each nations should not depend on “autopilot” to make the Xi Jinping and Joe Biden assembly a risk.
China’s overseas minister believes the street to an anticipated assembly between President Xi Jinping and US President Joe Biden won’t be “smooth sailing” and either side should work collectively to realize outcomes, the overseas ministry mentioned Sunday.
Wang Yi met with Biden, in addition to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and White House nationwide safety adviser Jake Sullivan, throughout a three-day go to to Washington. Both sides agreed to work towards a bilateral assembly on the aspect of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco that begins Nov. 11.
In an assertion launched by China’s overseas ministry summarizing the discussions, Wang mentioned the street to the bilateral assembly wouldn’t be “smooth sailing” and that they might not depend on “autopilot” to make it occur.
Wang’s go to to Washington got here at a time when tensions between the international locations stay excessive, together with over US export controls on superior know-how and China’s extra assertive actions in the East and South China seas.
The assertion mentioned that though there are nonetheless many points to be resolved, either side consider that it’s each useful and crucial for the US and China to keep up dialogue.
The assembly is the newest in a sequence of high-level contacts between the 2 international locations as they discover the opportunity of stabilizing an more and more tense relationship at a time of battle in Ukraine and Israel.
According to the overseas ministry assertion, Wang additionally mentioned that China and the US wanted a “return to Bali,” in a reference to Xi and Biden’s assembly at a G20 summit final 12 months, the place each officers mentioned points referring to Taiwan, US-China commerce tensions in addition to cooperation to handle points like local weather change, well being and meals safety.
Wang mentioned that the 2 international locations should “eliminate interference, overcome obstacles, enhance consensus and accumulate results.”
Other points mentioned between Wang and Biden included army exchanges between the US and China, in addition to monetary, technological and cultural exchanges and cooperation, in addition to the crises in the Middle East and Ukraine.
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