Washington, February 16 (EFE).- US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, will meet with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi this Friday on the occasion of the Munich Security Conference (MSC), which reinforces the improvement of diplomatic relations between the largest world powers in recent months.
According to the agenda of the US State Department, Blinken and Wang will meet at 3:30 p.m. local time (GMT+1) in the German city, where the conference opens today with the attendance of around 50 heads of state and of Government, including the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, and the Israeli president, Isaac Herzog.
Their meeting, not yet confirmed by the Chinese side, occurs amid an increase in high-level diplomatic exchanges between both countries following the face to face between the presidents of China and the United States, Xi Jinping and Joe Biden, on the occasion of the APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum) summit in San Francisco last November.
At this meeting, the leaders relaxed bilateral relations, which were going through their lowest point in recent decades due to commercial and technological obstacles and disagreements over Taiwan, among other issues, and agreed to reopen military communication channels and promote diplomatic ones.
Thus, Wang held meetings at the end of January in Bangkok with the United States National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, during which they addressed issues such as the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, the South China Sea – resource-rich waters that Beijing claims almost in its entirety -, and Taiwan, a self-governed island that China does not rule out invading and that the US would in principle defend.
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These issues are also expected to be discussed between the top diplomats of both countries, as well as the situation in the Red Sea, with Washington pressuring Beijing to use its influence in Iran (of which Beijing is the largest trading partner). for Tehran to persuade the Houthis, who are considered to be under its orbit, to stop their attacks on boats.
The president of the European Commission (EC), Ursula von der Leyen, and the head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, and leaders of the American continent, including the Colombian president Gustavo Petro, the Guatemalan president, will also attend the Bavarian capital. Bernardo Arévalo de León, and the vice president of the United States, Kamala Harris.
Likewise, the Secretary General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, and 60 Foreign Ministers will be in Munich, including Blinken, Wang, the British David Cameron, the Spanish José Manuel Albares, the Italian Antonio Tajani, and the Argentine Foreign Minister, Diana Mondino. , and 25 defense ministers. EFE
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By: EFE
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