2023-05-12 10:21:58
In a statement released yesterday Thursday, the White House said the US President’s National Security Adviser, Jake Sullivan, met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Wednesday and Thursday in Vienna, following several weeks of radio silence. almost between China and the United States.
According to the White House, Jake Sullivan and Wang Yi discussed both “Russia’s war once morest Ukraine” and issues related to the Taiwan Strait, the two most sensitive topics in the bilateral relationship.
Washington has repeatedly warned China once morest any military assistance to Russia and the United States is also worried regarding Taiwan, territory that China claims, and is closely monitoring Beijing’s maneuvers in the region.
The US executive assured that the two senior officials had “frank, substantial and constructive discussions”, while the official New China agency spoke of exchanges aimed at “removing the obstacles” current in Sino-American relations.
This meeting in Austria will revive speculation regarding an upcoming meeting between Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping. The two men last spoke on the sidelines of the G20 in Indonesia in November 2022.
China and the United States have been at odds since the affair of the Chinese balloon which had flown over American territory and was shot down in February, which had earned Beijing, which denied them, accusations of espionage on the part of Washington. The two superpowers engage in fierce competition, whether diplomatic, military, technological or economic.
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