2023-06-19 09:07:28
China
Xi Jinping and Antony Blinken shake hands
Despite severe tensions between China and the United States, China’s head of state and party leader Xi Jinping received US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Beijing on Monday.
Updated19. June 2023, 11:07 am
Despite severe tensions between China and the United States, China’s head of state and party leader Xi Jinping received US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Beijing on Monday.
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Blinken had previously held extensive talks with China’s top foreign policy leader, Wang Yi.
Antony Blinken is the highest-ranking visitor from the United States since President Joe Biden took office in January 2021.
REUTERS
Chinese leader Xi Jinping met with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday.
The two great powers exchanged information for the first time in a long radio silence.
Chinese leader Wang Yi says Blinken’s visit comes at a critical time.
Notwithstanding heavy tensions between the two great powers, China’s head of state and party leader Xi Jinping received US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday. This was reported by Chinese state television. The surprising meeting on Monday in Beijing is unusual in terms of protocol. It can be understood as a special gesture towards the USA. The first visit by a US Secretary of State since 2018 comes amid deep differences between the world’s two largest economies. Beijing had also cut off communication channels.
Blinken had previously held extensive talks with China’s top foreign policy leader, Wang Yi. In the hierarchy of power, he is above Secretary of State Qin Gang, with whom the US Secretary of State held a seven-and-a-half-hour conference on Sunday. After a long radio silence, both sides resumed direct high-level dialogue with the meetings. Official statements from both sides largely unanimously described the talks as frank, deep and constructive.
Top politician accuses USA of “misperception”.
Blinken is the highest-ranking visitor from the United States since US President Joe Biden took office in January 2021. Both sides argue among other things, on trade issues, Chinese backing for the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine, China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea and its threats to the democratic island republic of Taiwan.
During his meeting with the US Secretary of State, Chinese leader Wang Yi did not mince his words. He accused the US of having a “misperception” of his country, which in turn led to “wrong policies” towards the People’s Republic. Blinken’s visit comes at a critical time: “It is necessary to choose between dialogue or confrontation, cooperation or conflict.” The US Secretary of State had already wanted to come in February. He canceled at short notice because of a suspected Chinese spy balloon over the United States.
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