– Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation: China’s foreign minister says Xi-Biden meeting in San Francisco would not be ‘smooth-sailing’

BEIJING: China’s international minister considers that the street to an anticipated assembly between President Xi Jinping and US President Joe Biden wouldn’t be “smooth-sailing” and that each side should work collectively to realize outcomes, the international ministry mentioned on Sunday.
China’s Overseas Minister WangYi met with Biden, in addition to secretary of state Antony Blinken and nationwide safety advisor Jake Sullivan, throughout a three-day go to to Washington.Each side agreed to work towards a bilateral assembly on the upcoming Asia-Pacific Financial Cooperation Discussion board summit in San Francisco in November.
In an assertion launched by China’s international ministry summarizing the discussions with members of the “US strategic group,” Wang mentioned that the street to the bilateral assembly wouldn’t be “{smooth} crusing” and that they might not depend on “autopilot” to make it occur.
Wang’s three-day go to to Washington got here at a time when tensions between the 2 nations stay excessive, together with over US export controls on superior expertise and China’s extra assertive actions within the East and South China seas.

The assertion mentioned that though there are nonetheless many points to be resolved, each side consider that it’s each helpful and needed for the US and China to keep up dialogue.
The assembly is the most recent in a sequence of high-level contacts between the 2 nations as they discover the potential of stabilizing an more and more tense relationship at a time of battle in Ukraine and Israel.

In response to the international ministry assertion, Wang additionally mentioned that China and the US wanted a “return to Bali,” in a reference to Xi and Biden’s earlier assembly at a G20 summit final 12 months, the place each officers mentioned points referring to Taiwan, US-China commerce tensions in addition to cooperation to deal with points like local weather change, well being and meals safety.

Wang mentioned that the 2 nations should “remove interference, overcome obstacles, improve consensus and accumulate outcomes.”
Different points mentioned between Wang and Biden included army exchanges between the US and China, in addition to monetary, technological and cultural exchanges and cooperation, in addition to the crises within the Center East and Ukraine.