Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with a senior Chinese official on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly as President Joe Biden’s administration seeks to establish “a floor” for a fraught rivalry with the communist power.
“I think it's a good thing that we have this opportunity to build on the recent high-level engagements that our countries have had, to make sure that we're maintaining open communications and demonstrate that we are responsibly managing the relationship between our two countries,” Blinken said at the outset of a meeting with Chinese Vice President Han Zheng."The world expects us to responsibly manage our relationship.
Sullivan's trip was perceived in Beijing as a renewal of the possibility that the two heads of state could meet this fall. “Many are worried that any hope of a Xi-Biden meeting has been dashed,” Renmin University professor Wang Yiwei told the South China Morning Post. “The conversation [between Wang Yi and Sullivan] was largely for the purpose of laying the foundation for a meeting between the two leaders.
“The world needs healthy and stable US-China relations, which benefit not only China and the U.S., but the whole world,” the Chinese official said. “Last year President Xi had a very successful meeting with President Biden in Bali and yielded a lot important consensus. They point to the right direction for the relations. Now China-U.S. relations face a lot of difficulties and challenges. It needs us both to display more sincerity, more efforts and meet each other half way.
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