US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday, the US State Department announced.
Blinken today ends a two-day visit to Beijing to ease rising tensions between the US and China.
During the visit, the top official of the Chinese Communist Party (CPC) for diplomacy told the US Secretary of State on Monday that China and the United States must choose between “cooperation or conflict,” according to state media.
“It is necessary to make a choice between dialogue and confrontation, cooperation and conflict,” he said, according to China’s state television CCTV.
Wang Yi also said the country would make “no compromise” with respect to Taiwan, an island Beijing claims as its territory that has fueled rising tensions between the two countries.
“Maintaining national unity has always been at the core of China’s fundamental interests,” and “on this point, China will not compromise or make concessions,” he told Antony Blinken, currently visiting Beijing, the first visit of China. a United States Secretary of State since 2018.
Wang, the head of US diplomacy, asked the United States to respect China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and oppose Taiwan’s independence.
Besides Taiwan, other issues have contributed to strained relations between the world’s two largest economies. These include technological rivalries, US sanctions against Chinese digital giants, trade, the treatment of the Asian country’s Muslim Uyghur minority and Beijing’s claims over the South China Sea.
Source: DN
