National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan met with China’s top diplomat for two days in Vienna this week, marking the highest level of in-person engagement between the two nations since President Biden and President Xi Jinping held talks in Bali last November.
According to a White House readout, Sullivan and Wang Yi, director of China’s Central Foreign Affairs Commission, met from May 10-11 and held “candid, substantive, and constructive discussions on key issues in the US-China bilateral relationship.”
The readout said the topics discussed included “global and regional security issues, Russia’s war against Ukraine,” and Taiwan. “This meeting was part of ongoing efforts to maintain open lines of communication and responsibly manage competition,” the White House said.
According to China’s Xinhua news agency, Wang and Sullivan held “candid, in-depth, substantive and constructive” discussions in Vienna. “The two sides held discussions on removing obstacles in China-US relations and stabilizing the relationship from deterioration,” Xinhua said.
Wang also expressed “China’s solemn position on the Taiwan question,” which has been a major source of tensions as the US has been increasing support for Taipei. According to both readouts, the two sides agreed to maintain communication.
The US and China made a point to hold high-level talks after the Biden-Xi meeting, but the progress was reversed after Secretary of State Antony Blinken canceled a planned trip to China over the Chinese balloon that wound up in US airspace in February. Beijing effectively froze high-level talks with Washington after Blinken called off his visit.
The Sullivan-Wang meeting came after Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang spoke with US Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns on Monday. Qin told Burns that in order to foster communication, the US must respect China’s positions, including its red line on Taiwan.
This all sounds very good to me, a couple of steps in the right direction…
I wish I could agree with you Donna. I Have very high regard for your steady hand, steering a sensible course through the tangles and madness of this site and its tough challenges. I’m afraid that the Merkel announcement that the U.S.,NATO & the EU never really wanted the Minsk agreements to be adhered to, but was solely a device to gain time to build Ukraine up militarily so they could weaken and embarrass Russia. I believe Putin was correct to thwart Obama, Neuland, Clinton conspiracy AND to change the facts on the ground to preclude Ukraine from ever being able to endanger Russia and her great people every again. I believe that his plan is going as well as anyone could have expected going against the empire. Only time will tell, but it will be a while I believe before a state or shabby coalition bites off challenging Russia again in the future.
Just another act of deceit & deception by the U.S. deep state actors, now in control of their quest to dominate everything and everyone. China should beware of the lying U.S. its diplomats, only out to separate them from their bond with Russia, so it can confront them separately rather than as a team. Tell blinker China has Russia’s back and will fight to protect Russia’s back, anytime, anywhere…!!!!!
Interesting that “violently” Blinken was not the person chosen for this, you know, his being the actual foreign affairs head …? Was he busy playing somewhere else then?
The Biden White House “readout” is just more lies.
They did not re-establish an ability to talk to China, which is the impression they want to give.
They were scolded in detail, told what they must do in order to regain the ability to talk to China — “removing obstacles in China-US relations and stabilizing the relationship from deterioration,” Xinhua said.
China just talked about how the US had wrecked the relationship, the same lecture they gave in Alaska.
Biden wants to pretend it is not totally bungled and wrecked.
And Sullivan threatened again to bomb the TSM chip factory.
Well, if Wang Yi agreed to meet Sullivan a lot has change since the Blinken disaster early in Biden’s term! Sullivan must have made quite a few reverses if there is any advance in relations.
Don’t ever trust a Straussian neocon/neolib. They always have an angle that they’re not telling anyone about. The toxic trio of Sullivan, Blinken, and Nuland are trying desperately to involve the USA in some catastrophic unwinnable war that will further isolate us from the rest of the world. China is about to pull the plug on the petrodollar and it’s all downhill from here. We are the “golden calf” that Netanyahu bragged about taking down in 1990.