U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken began two days of talks in Beijing on Sunday, the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit China since President Joe Biden took office in January 2021.
U.S. President Joe Biden shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping as they meet on the sidelines of the G20 leaders' summit in Bali, Indonesia, November 14, 2022. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarquein Beijing on Sunday, the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit China since President Joe Biden took office in January 2021.flew over U.S. airspace in February, was aimed at stabilising tense relations between the world's two biggest economies, but hopes for a breakthrough were low.
The talks were led on the U.S. side by Blinken and national security adviser Jake Sullivan and on the Chinese side by senior diplomats Yang Jiechi and Wang Yi.U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai and China's then-Vice Premier Liu He , the first such high-level trade talks between the world's two biggest economies since Biden took office.with State Councillor Wang Yi, in Tianjin, China. She was the top Biden official to visit China until Blinken nearly two years later.for the first time in talks lasting more than three hours, which covered a wide range of topics including Taiwan, North Korea and trade.
The talks came just over a month after U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan, the democratic island China claims as its own, triggering a furious reaction from Beijing.
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