U.S. President Joe Biden's national security adviser will hold talks with China's top diplomat Yang Jiechi in Switzerland this week, the White House said on Tuesday, upholding a pledge by both countries' leaders for officials to boost communication.
With trade tensions also at the top of the U.S.-China agenda, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai, who was in Paris on Tuesday to participate in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development meetings, has said she hopes to hold discussions with Chinese counterparts soon.
The series of talks between officials from the two powers since Biden took office in January have shown little in the way of concrete progress. After that call, Biden denied on Tuesday a media report that Xi turned down an offer from Biden for a first face-to-face meeting as leaders."It's not a thaw. It's not a re-embrace of engagement. It's about getting serious and systematic about competition," Evan Medeiros, an Asia specialist in the Obama administration who teaches at Georgetown University, said of the Zurich meeting.
China has blamed Washington for increased tensions over the democratically governed island claimed by Beijing, even as it has conducted an unprecedented number of incursions by its air force into Taiwan's air defence zone.But analysts say increased communication between senior U.S. and Chinese officials could allow progress in some aspects of ties - for example, allowing more journalists to return to each other's countries and reopening shuttered consulates in Houston and Chengdu.
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