Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi called for “in-depth” and “comprehensive” Sino-American dialogue to stabilise bilateral relations on Thursday, just before his meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Washington, South China Morning Post
reported.
Wang voiced hoped of “constructive” and “forward-looking” talks with his diplomatic counterpart, yet did not mention the prospect of a highly anticipated meeting between Chinese President
Xi Jinping and US President
Joe Biden at the
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco next month.
China and the US “share important common interests and we face challenges that we need to respond to together”, Wang said. It has been widely expected that his three-day visit to Washington would secure the summit between Xi and Biden.
Wang was also slated to meet National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan on Friday to maintain the “strategic channel of communication”, according to the White House. Sullivan and Wang met in Vienna in May and Malta in September.
