Chinese vice-minister of foreign affairs Xie Feng also unveiled two lists with demands for the US, including that it drop its extradition request for Chinese tech executive Meng Wanzhou and lift visa restrictions for Communist Party members and their families.
John Lee, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and a former national security adviser to the Australian government, said China’s “red lines” reflected an attempt by Beijing to take the initiative in “setting the agenda, expectations and limits on US actions in the region”. US deputy secretary of state Wendy Sherman leads a delegation during talks with Chinese officials in Tianjin on Monday. Photo: AP
In recent months, the US and others in the G7 bloc have rolled out their green alternative to Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative, countries such as Japan and South Korea have joined the US in stating support for Taiwan, and there has been a greater emphasis on the strategic Quad grouping with Australia, India and Japan.
Benoit Hardy-Chartrand, a Tokyo-based East Asia analyst at Temple University, said it had been a challenge for Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s administration to navigate the intensifying rivalry between Beijing and Washington and its already fraught security environment.
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