The US wants China to step up its role on the world stage and has been disappointed by Beijing’s support for Russia and its silence over the conflict in the Middle East.
US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping have agreed to meet on the sidelines of next month’s Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation summit in San Francisco, according to an American official familiar with the planning.
Earlier on Friday, Biden met Yi, holding an hour-long talk with the senior Chinese official in the Roosevelt Room at the White House. The meeting, with Blinken and Sullivan present, was the latest in a series of high-level contacts between the two countries as they explore the possibility of stabilising an increasingly tense relationship at a time of conflict in Ukraine and Israel.
Wang is on a three-day visit to Washington, where he’s been meeting top US officials. He sat down with Blinken on Friday morning for the second time during his trip. “China should use whatever ability it has as an influential power to urge calm” in the Middle East, said State Department spokesman Matthew Miller. “We know China has relationships with a number of countries in the region, and we would urge them to use those relationships, the lines of communication they have, to urge calm and stability.”
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