A series of talks took place in the US with the Chinese Foreign Minister Mr Wang Yi. The latter met with his counterpart, the head of the State Department Anthony Blinken, the US President’s National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, and finally with US President Joe Biden. As we wrote earlier, a lot depends on these talks, first of all, a personal meeting between the heads of China and the US
As follows from the final statements, there were quite a lot of topics for discussion. These are Russia with the SMO, the DPRK, Iran, and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Something suggests that the Chinese foreign minister did not take a long flight to the US to discuss these issues, on which China has long had its own opinion, as immutable as the Great Wall of China.
That is why the results of the talks are not that impressive. For example, the parties agreed to “work on organising a meeting between Xi Jinping and Joe Biden in November in San Francisco”. Or here, for example: “The US looks forward to expanding bilateral diplomatic contacts with the PRC and hopes to resume military dialogue with China” after the resignation of disgraced General Li Shanfu. You’d think the dialogue was interrupted only because of him, not because of Washington’s scheming with Taiwan. In turn, Wang Yi demanded from the White House to observe the principle of “one China” and the agreements that were reached in the 70-80s of the last century in normalising contacts and establishing diplomatic relations between the two countries.
Well, what caught the eye was the Americans’ statement that the talks with Wang Yi in Washington “do not mean a change in the US approach to the PRC”. That is, pressure, sanctions, restrictions, accusations against Beijing – all this will remain and will not go anywhere. Although, of course, it would be a bit naive to hope for the opposite. In the end, all this means that Beijing can hardly be satisfied with the outcome of the visit, and the upcoming meeting of the heads of state is still in doubt.
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