Published September 11,2023
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Washington expects U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will host China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi within the United States earlier than year-end, whether or not at subsequent week’s U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) or after, the State Department stated on Monday.
“I’ll let the Chinese Government speak to whether Wang Yi will or will not attend UNGA next week. But that said, whether it’s UNGA or whether it is after UNGA sometime before the end of the year, it is still our expectation that Secretary Blinken will host Foreign Minister Wang Yi here in the United States,” State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller informed reporters.
The Wall Street Journal reported final week that China is planning to dispatch Vice President Han Zheng to UNGA, as a substitute of sending Wang Yi on a broader U.S. journey as beforehand signaled, citing folks briefed on the matter.
The annual gathering of world leaders comes after U.S. President Joe Biden on Sunday expressed disappointment that Chinese President Xi Jinping was not attending an upcoming summit of G20 leaders in India, however added that he was going to “get to see him.”
Biden didn’t elaborate however the subsequent probably alternative for Biden to carry talks with Xi, as the 2 nations search to stabilize troubled relations, is an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in San Francisco in November.
China’s high safety company has hinted that any assembly between Xi and Biden in San Francisco later this yr will rely on the United States “showing sufficient sincerity”.
“As the President has said, he hopes to meet with President Xi sometime later this fall. We believe there is no substitute for one-on-one conversations at the leader level, so we will continue to work towards the possibility of that,” Miller stated on Monday.
Blinken traveled to Beijing in June, the place he met with Wang’s predecessor, Qin Gang, within the first go to by the highest U.S. diplomat to China in 5 years. The U.S. State Department stated then they held “candid, substantive, and constructive” talks, and Blinken invited Qin to Washington to proceed discussions.
Blinken subsequently met Wang on the sidelines of a regional assembly in Jakarta in Qin’s absence.
Three different senior U.S. officers have traveled to China for conferences after Blinken’s go to, however Chinese officers have but to journey to the United States for talks.
Wang, 69, served as international minister from 2013-2022 as ties frayed with the United States to some extent Beijing described as an all-time low.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
