Secretary of State Antony Blinken may meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Monday, capping a string of discussions aimed at lowering tensions between the two superpowers.
of their first meeting, in Anchorage, at the outset of the Biden presidency.
It has been customary in the past for the Chinese leader to meet with visiting U.S. secretaries of state, and Xi on Friday hosted Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates in the Great Hall.Blinken met Wang earlier on Monday in the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, where the two tight-lipped officials greeted each other in a highly formal exchange before entering a large conference room for a closed-door session that lasted more than three hours.
For his part, Wang told Blinken the U.S. needed to “reflect deeply” and work with China to avoid “strategic surprises,” according to China’s Foreign Ministry.“We must reverse the downward spiral of Sino-U.S. relations, push for a return to a healthy and stable track, and work together to find a correct way for China and the United States to get along in the new era,” Wang said, according to the readout.
“Both sides know that Sino-U.S. relations need to return to normal,” said Zhu Feng, dean of the Institute of International Studies at Nanjing University. “A relationship between major countries requires competition, cooperation and dialogue — it must be interactive.”However, Zhu didn’t think the Biden administration would really divert its course from suppressing China.
Yet concerns remain that Washington will simply continue what Beijing perceives as a strategy to contain China and suppress its development.
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