U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People, Friday, April 26, 2024, in Beijing, China.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken raised concerns on Friday about China's support for Russia's military, one of the many issues threatening to sour the recent improvement in relations between the world's biggest economies.U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People on Friday in Beijing. U.S.
"China is the top supplier of machine tools, microelectronics, nitrocellulose — which is critical to making munitions and rocket propellants — and other dual-use items that Moscow is using to ramp up its defence industrial base," he said.The visit produced little progress on contentious issues including U.S. complaints about cheap Chinese exports and tensions over Taiwan and the South China Sea. Instead, both sides are focusing on pragmatic issues like people-to-people exchanges.
China has said it has not provided weaponry to any party, adding that it is "not a producer of or party involved in the Ukraine crisis." However, it says that normal trade between China and Russia should not be interrupted or restricted.After a year of silence, U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke face-to-face for the first time ahead of this year's APEC Summit in San Francisco.
Earlier, Wang told Blinken that the "giant ship" of the China-U.S. ties had stabilized, "but negative factors in the relationship are still increasing and building." The agenda for the talks was set during the November summit between Biden and Xi in San Francisco and a follow-up call in April.
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