Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi are likely to discuss planning for a phone call this spring between President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
Antony Blinken's upcoming meeting with Wang Yi underscores Washington and Beijing's efforts to cool the rancor that has roiled U.S.-China ties over the past year. | Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty ImagesSecretary of State Antony Blinken will meet with China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference on Friday, two sources familiar with the planning tell POLITICO.said his focus would be Ukraine, the Middle East and “transatlantic security.
The Blinken-Wang meeting agenda in Munich will likely include planning for a phone call between Biden and Xi in the coming months. A senior administration official’sBlinken’s upcoming meeting with Wang underscores Washington and Beijing’s efforts to cool the rancor that has roiled U.S.-China ties over the past year. Bilateral relations nosedived following the discovery — and subsequent destruction by U.S.
The White House considers its nine months of focused engagement with Beijing a diplomatic success. In recent weeks Biden administration officials have repeatedly touted how that outreach has resulted in the creation of a
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