The US secretary of state is set to hold talks with his counterpart and most likely with China’s president Xi Jinping
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken waves as he boards his plane at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, on his way to Beijing for his three-day visit to China.US Secretary of State Antony Blinken waves as he boards his plane at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, on his way to Beijing for his three-day visit to China.Antony Blinken was due to land in China on Wednesday, amid a worsening rift between the world’s two most powerful countries that threatens to overshadow otherwise improving relations.
On his three-day visit Blinken will first stop in Shanghai on his way to Beijing, to speak to students and attend a basketball game, the sort of popular diplomacy which would have been unthinkable a year ago, when bilateral relations were fraught, “My expectation is that friends in Europe will have opportunities to express their concerns both in public and private to Chinese officials as well,” the senior administration official said. “So our objective will be to clearly make the case what the implications are of this support, and why that may not be in China’s interest going forward.”
“Let me stress again that China’s right to conduct normal trade and economic exchanges with Russia and other countries in the world on the basis of equality and mutual benefit should not be interfered with or disrupted,” Wang said according to Beijing Youth Daily. “China’s legitimate and lawful rights and interests should not be infringed on.”
Beijing’s adamant support for Moscow is deepened by its belief that the US is seeking to encircle China by constructing an interlocking network of alliances around it.at the White House, reaffirming the security alliance between the three countries in the face of “dangerous and aggressive behavior in the South China Sea”, less than a year after a similar summit at Camp David with Japan and South Korea. In recent years the US also formed the Aukus security pact with Australia and the UK.
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