As Secretary of State Antony Blinken visits, China blames the U.S. for the countries reaching 'the lowest point' in their relationship.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken shakes hands with China's President Xi Jinping in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on June 19, 2023.U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with leading Chinese officials, including President Xi Jinping, in Beijing on Monday in what was portrayed by both sides as an effort to ease increasingly dangerous tensions between the two nuclear-armed powers.
Blinken met with Xi for roughly 35 minutes on Monday after speaking to Wang Yi, China’s top foreign policy official, for several hours earlier in the day. According to China’s foreign ministry, which said the relationship between Washington and Beijing is “at the lowest point since its establishment,” Wang told Blinken during the meeting that “we must take a responsible attitude toward the people, history, and the world and reverse the downward spiral of U.S.-China relations.”
Wang also accused the U.S. of “hyping” the “China threat theory” and “recklessly interfering in China’s internal affairs,” a reference to Taiwan andthat were reportedly central to Blinken’s talks with Chinese officials on Sunday and Monday. “China has no room to compromise or concede” on Taiwan, Wang told Blinken, according to the Chinese foreign ministry’s readout. “The United States must… respect China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and clearly oppose ‘Taiwan independence.'”
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