Blinken meets China’s Xi Jinping in final day of high-stakes Beijing visit aimed at cooling simmering tensions.
Top US diplomat Antony Blinken and Chinese leader Xi Jinping met in Beijing on Monday, in the wake of a dispute over a Chinese surveillance balloon earlier this year. It was an important step.
Blinken is the first US secretary of state to visit Beijing in five years, and his talks with senior Chinese officials are seen as an important lab test for whether? In this era of mistrust, any kind of stress relief can be done.
There is this uncertainty about whether? Xi Jinping and Antony Blinken will meet during a two-day visit, further highlighting this fraught US-China relationship and the failure to schedule a face-off is seen by Washington as a minor issue, or Then, breaks with several previous trips from the top. American diplomat.
The meeting, which took place in Beijing's cavernous Great Hall of the People, was only publicly announced by the US, about an hour before the meeting was to go ahead. There is this uncertainty about whether? Xi Jinping and Antony Blinken will meet during a two-day visit, further highlighting this fraught US-China relationship and the failure to schedule a face-off is seen by Washington as a minor issue, or Then, breaks with several previous trips from the top. American diplomat.
The meeting, which took place in Beijing's cavernous Great Hall of the People, was only publicly announced by the US, about an hour before the meeting was to go ahead. It lasted about half an hour, a State Department official said, adding that the meeting began at 4:34 p.m. local time, and ended at 5:09 p.m.
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In addition to "whether China and the United States can get together" and at the same time, China's legitimate rights and interests should not be harmed. Because,
It can have an impact on the future and destiny of mankind.
The two superpowers have been at odds more and more recently over a variety of problems, from Beijing's tight ties to Moscow to American attempts to restrict the sale of cutting-edge technologies to China.
Repairing communication channels that have become shattered over the past year has been a key concern, particularly when it comes to high-level military interactions. This has caused Washington to worry that a mistake or accident might quickly escalate into a confrontation.
Relations between the two countries reached a new low earlier this year as a result of a Chinese spy balloon that was discovered flying across the US and passing over critical military installations before being shot down by an American fighter plane. As a result, Blinken cancelled a previous trip to Beijing.
The diplomatic mission was successfully completed this time.
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On June 19, 2023, in Beijing, China's Great Hall of the People, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping. LEAH MILLIS FOR REUTERS POOL
One must make a decision.
Blinken and Wang Yi, China's top foreign policy advisor, met for about three hours earlier on Monday, which highlighted the significant difficulties in resolving the acrimony and mistrust that have come to define the relationship.
The Chinese government's expanding influence abroad and its tightening domestic regulations have forced the US to rethink how it handles its interactions with the power in recent years.
According to a readout from Chinese state broadcaster CCTV, Wang reiterated Beijing's standard rhetoric, blaming Washington's "wrong perception" of China as the "root cause" of the two countries' deteriorating relations and demanding that the US stop "suppressing" China's technological advancement and exaggerating the "China threat."
China and the United States must work together to find the best way to coexist in the new era, according to Wang, who also noted that Blinken's visit came at "a critical juncture in US-China relations, where a choice needs to be made between dialogue or confrontation, cooperation or conflict."
Wang emphasised once more that Taiwan is one of China's "core interests," over which
The self-governing democratic island, which China's Communist Party claims but has never ruled, has become yet another source of friction in the bilateral relationship between the US and China.
Blinken stressed the need of the nations managing their rivalry "responsibly" through "open channels of communication" during the meeting to make sure it "does not veer into conflict," according to a statement from State Department spokesman Matthew Miller.
Blinken stated in the statement that the US would continue to utilise diplomacy to "stand up for the interests and values of the American people" and that the conversations were "candid and productive," discussing potential collaboration on common global concerns.