US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Wang Yi, China's top foreign policy official, saw each other on the sidelines of Association of Southeast Asian Nations talks in the Indonesian capital.
Wang, who leads the foreign affairs commission of the Chinese Communist Party's Central Committee, is representing China at the Jakarta talks among foreign ministers because Qin is ill, the foreign ministry in Beijing said. Tensions between the world's two largest economies have soared in recent years over a host of issues including China's growing assertiveness in the region and sweeping restrictions imposed by the United States on exports of advanced semiconductors.
"At least in the near term, maybe even in the lifetimes of most people in this room, I don't think a clear finish line," Blinken said of US goals in China during a recent appearance at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. Blinken's first plan to visit Beijing was scuttled in February after Washington said it detected a Chinese espionage balloon over the mainland United States.The South China Sea has been a major topic at the ASEAN talks in Jakarta, where Washington and Beijing will both take part in an 18-nation East Asia Summit with foreign ministers on Friday.
It will be their first encounter since a brief March meeting in India but no bilateral talks are expected between the two diplomats as Moscow's widely condemned invasion of Ukraine grinds on.
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