China’s top diplomat Wang Yi met US Secretary of State Antony Blinken for 2nd time in a month, called for practical actions from US to get bilateral relations back on right track
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China’s top diplomat Wang Yi met US Secretary of State Antony Blinken for 2nd time in a month, called for practical actions from US to get bilateral relations back on right track
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China’s top diplomat Wang Yi met US Secretary of State Antony Blinken for 2nd time in a month, called for practical actions from US to get bilateral relations back on right track

 

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China’s top diplomat Wang Yi met US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday on the sidelines of ASEAN meetings in Indonesia, according to China’s state broadcaster CCTV, the second meeting between the two within a month.

Blinken met Wang and China’s Foreign Minister Qin Gang in Beijing last month, marking the first visit to China by a US secretary of state in five years. US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen visited China earlier this month and climate envoy John Kerry is to visit next week.

In the next step, the key is to come up with practical actions to get the two countries’ relationship back on the right track, Wang said. 

The US side needs to reflect on the key reasons that brought the bilateral relations into serious difficulties and translate the consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries in the Island of Bali into concrete actions, and more importantly put a series of commitments made by President John Biden on many occasions into practice, said Wang. 

The both sides should start with specific things, resolutely stop the “gray rhinoceros”, appropriately deal with the “black swan”, and completely remove the “blocking tiger”, so as to accumulate conditions and remove disruptions for the stabilization of China-US relations, he said.

The US side should adopt a rational and pragmatic attitude, meet China in the halfway, promote consultations on the guiding principles of US-China relations, expand diplomatic and security communication channels, enhance the effectiveness of communication, and smooth humanistic exchanges, he added.