The meeting was the final engagement of a visit aimed at ensuring disputes between the superpowers do not spiral into conflict.
China’s Xi Jinping hailed “progress” at the start of talks with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Beijing on Monday, the final engagement of a rare trip aimed at ensuring disputes between the superpowers do not spiral into conflict.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets Chinese President Xi Jinping in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.The meeting, on the final day of Blinken’s two-day visit, could help facilitate a summit between Xi and US President Joe Biden later in the year. “I hope that through this visit, Mr Secretary, you will make more positive contributions to stabilising China-US relations,” Xi added, addressing Blinken.
Blinken underscored the importance of open communication channels to manage their competition during more than three hours of talks with Wang, which the US State Department called “productive”. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, fourth left, meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping, centre, in the Great Hall of the People.The lack of regular and open communication channels between the world’s top two economies has sent jitters around the world, and Beijing’s reluctance to engage in regular military-to-military talks with Washington has alarmed China’s neighbours.
They also expressed a desire to stabilise bilateral ties despite what one US official called their “profound” differences, and agreed that Qin would visit Washington to continue the conversation, though no date was announced.
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