With a two-day visit, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Bliken came to Beijing. Blinken is the highest ranking typical of the American administration who has visited China since president Joe Biden took office.
Yesterday (18.06.2023), on the first day of the visit, Antony Blinken was admitted by State Attorney, abroad Minister Qing Gang. The talks lasted 7 and a half hours. They are described as “honest, factual and constructive”.
Official message from the Chinese Ministry of abroad Affairs notes that Minister Qin Gang first stated that China-American relations are presently at worst (at the lowest point) since the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1979, which is not in line with the basic interests of both nations and the expectations of the global community. He stressed that China's policy towards the United States has always maintained continuity and stability, and continues on the basis of the principles of common respect, peaceful coexistence and win-win cooperation proposed by president Xi JinPing (Bali, G-20). China is active in building stable, predictable and constructive Chinese-American relations. They hope that the American side will keep an nonsubjective and rational knowing of China, meet with China halfway, that it will calmly, professionally and rationally deal with possible, unexpected incidents.
Both sides should full implement the consensus reached at the G20 gathering in Bali, Indonesia, between president Xi Jin Ping and president Biden, and make Chinese-American relations to curb their deterioration, stabilise them and return to normal.
Qin Gang clarified China's clear strong position and set clear requirements for China's core interests, their main concerns, including Taiwan. He firmly stated that Taiwan was the core of China's core interests, the most crucial issue in Chinese-American relations, as it carries the top risks.
China one more time called on the US side to comply with the rule of 1 China and signed 3 joint communications on this issue and to effectively implement its commitment not to support Taiwan's “independence”.
According to the authoritative MFA communication, both parties held long, in-depth discussions on the overall relation between China and the United States and related crucial issues. They agreed to work together further to implement the consensus reached at the Bali meeting, to manage differences effectively and to advance dialogue, exchange and cooperation.
High level contacts will besides be maintained. Secretary of State Blinken invited state councillor and abroad Minister Qin Ganga to visit the United States, and Minister Qin expressed his willingness to visit the United States at a convenient time for both parties.
In addition, it was agreed to proceed consultations on the principles of the Common American-China Working Group relations to discuss and search consensus on circumstantial issues arising from the relation between the 2 powers.
The Parties besides agreed to grow the educational exchange, research the anticipation of expanding passenger flights between China and the United States, and supply support for expanding the number of students, researchers and businessmen visiting each other.
It was concluded that the delegations besides exchanged views on major global and regional issues of common interest.
The U.S. State Department reported that Antony Blinken during a gathering with his Chinese counterpart Qin Gang stressed the importance of diplomacy and maintaining open channels of communication in full cases to reduce the hazard of misconception and calculation. The mission with which he went to China is an effort to establish liable dialog and improve diplomatic contacts. Blinken's talks in China are intended to prevent differences in relations between both countries from becoming open conflict. Secretary Blinken raised a number of worrying US issues during the discussion, and discussed the anticipation of working with the mediate State on issues where the interests of both parties converge (e.g. climate protection, global warming, economics, the fight against terrorism).
He pointed out that the United States does not want to break ties with China. He was besides to emphasise in talks that the US would always defend the interests and values of the American nation and cooperate with its allies and partners to make a imagination of a planet that is free, open and upholds an global order based on the principles of law.
Summing up Secretary Blinken's first day of talks, we see that the representatives of the 2 world's largest economies have failed to overcome the most serious misunderstandings and to scope agreement on the most delicate issues. advancement is slight and a chance for a breakthrough small.
The list of disputed cases between powers is long (including Taiwan, the South China Sea, export restrictions and sanctions on Chinese companies, conflict in Ukraine). American officials from the State Department uncover that neither side showed a propensity for concessions.
Secretary Blinken's visit is being closely observed around the world, as any escalation of tensions between the 2 superpowers would have negative repercussions for the full world, especially in the economical dimension.
Today, on Monday 19 June, Secretary Blinken met Wang Yi, a associate of the Political Office of the Central Committee of the KPC, manager of the abroad Affairs Department of the Central Committee of the KPC, a erstwhile long-standing abroad minister, the most crucial figure in Chinese diplomacy.
Also today, Antony Blinken is scheduled to meet with the president of Xi JinPing. This was reported in an highly laconic way by XinHua, followed by Chinese media.
The gathering was confirmed at the last minute, as it had not been officially planned before.
UPDATE: Meetings took place in the afternoon of Beijing time – the first information on this subject appeared online before 14:00)
What does that mean? She was a two-woman luck teller. On the 1 hand, it may mean that the parties have reached an agreement, on the other, that Blinken will hear a message from Xi addressed to Joe Biden. And it won't be a pleasant message.
Author: 梁安基 Andrzej Z. Liang, 上海 Shanghai, 中国 China
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Editorial: Leszek B.
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