China’s Xi Jinping welcomes top US diplomat Antony Blinken in Beijing as he wraps up a two-day high-stakes visit aimed at easing soaring tensions between the two countries
US Secretary of State also held lengthy meetings with senior Chinese diplomats, including Wang Yi, who said that China has "no room for compromise" on the question of Taiwan.The meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the Great Hall of the People had been expected and was seen as key to the success of the trip, but neither side confirmed it would happen until a State Department official announced it just an hour beforehand.
A snub by the Chinese leader would have been a major setback to the effort to restore and maintain communications at senior levels. "In every meeting, I stressed that direct engagement and sustained communication at senior levels is the best way to responsibly manage differences and ensure that competition does not veer into conflict," Blinken told reporters.
Blinken met earlier Monday with China’s top diplomat Wang Yi for about three hours, according to a US official.China's most senior diplomat and Director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission Wang Yi welcomes US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on Monday, June 19.
Wang was also quoted as saying that Beijing will has"no room to compromise" on the question of Taiwan, which it considers as a province and part of the Chinese territory.Wang, a long-time Chinese foreign minister who now serves as the Director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission, also said that the US-China relationship is at a low point, with the root cause being a wrong perception by the United States of China.
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