White Home nationwide safety adviser Jake Sullivan met with Chinese language Overseas Minister Wang Yi in Malta this weekend, Beijing and Washington mentioned on Sunday, because the world’s two largest economies search to stabilize troubled relations.
Each side held “candid, substantive and constructive” talks throughout a number of conferences held Sept. 16-17, in response to separate statements from the White Home and the Chinese language overseas ministry printed Sunday.
Sullivan’s assembly with Wang was the most recent in a collection of high-level discussions between U.S. and Chinese language officers that might lay the groundwork for a gathering of U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese language President Xi Jinping later this yr.
Sullivan final met Wang in Vienna in Could.
China’s overseas ministry mentioned either side agreed to keep up high-level exchanges and maintain bilateral consultations on Asia-Pacific affairs, maritime affairs and overseas coverage.
The White Home added that either side “dedicated to keep up this strategic channel of communication and to pursue further high-level engagement and consultations in key areas … within the coming months.”
Washington mentioned Sullivan “famous the significance of peace and stability throughout the Taiwan Strait”, whereas Wang cautioned the US that the Taiwan difficulty is the “first insurmountable purple line of Sino-U.S. relations”, in response to the Chinese language overseas ministry assertion.
Biden this month expressed disappointment that Xi skipped a summit of Group of 20 leaders in India, however mentioned he would “get to see him.” The following probably alternative for Biden to carry talks with Xi is an Asia-Pacific Financial Cooperation (APEC) summit in San Francisco in November.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen have traveled to China this yr to make sure continued communication between the 2 international locations amid tensions that flared after the U.S. army shot down a Chinese language surveillance balloon that traveled over the US.
Biden and Xi final met in 2022 on the sidelines of a G20 summit on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali.
