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White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan shakes hands with Wang Yi, director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission of the Chinese Communist Party. (Ng Han Guan/ REUTERS)
A senior official of the White House arrived in China on Tuesday for talks on a relationship that has been severely tested under President Donald Trump. Joe Biden.
Jake Sullivannational security adviser, was greeted at Beijing airport by Yang Taohead of the North America and Oceania Department of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, and by the U.S. ambassador to China, Nicholas Burns.
Sullivan has been Biden’s point person in the talks, often without warning, with the top foreign policy official of the Communist Party to try to manage the growing differences between Washington and Beijing.
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The aim of his visit, which will last until Thursday, is limited: to try to maintain communication in a relationship that was broken for almost a year in 2022-23 and only recovered over the course of several months.
No major announcements are expected, although Sullivan’s meetings could lay the groundwork for a Possible final summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping before Biden leaves office in January.
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Sullivan’s meetings could set the stage for a possible final summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping before Biden leaves office in January. (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)
Is important for the United States and China to avoid any crisis in the remaining months of the Biden administration, as it could set the tone for U.S.-China ties in the coming years, he said. Da Weidirector of the Center for International Security and Strategy at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
“The objective of this visit is not to achieve new advances or progress, but Continue the stable momentum of China-US relations in the last year through strategic communication, and avoid new crises in the coming months,” he said.
Sullivan to hold talks with Wang Yidirector of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission of the Chinese Communist Party.
Wang is also foreign minister. He had initially resigned when he took up the party post, a more senior position, but returned about seven months later in July 2023 after his successor was removed for reasons that have not been made public.
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Sullivan and Wang Yi meet with their delegations in Beijing. (Ng Han Guan/REUTERS)
The Biden administration has taken a hard line on Chinaconsidering it a strategic competitor, restricting its companies’ access to advanced technology and confronting the emerging power in its attempt to exert influence over Taiwan and the South China Sea.
Already fragile relations froze after then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a top US lawmaker, will visit Taiwan in August 2022Hopes of restoring ties were dashed in February when an alleged Chinese spy balloon flew over the United States before being shot down by the US military.
At a meeting between Sullivan and Wang in Vienna in May 2023, both countries began a delicate process to redirect relations. Since then, they have met twice more in a third country, Malta and ThailandThey will hold their first talks in Beijing this week.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry said this week that Relations with the United States remain at “a critical juncture”He said the two sides were engaged in dialogue on climate and other issues, but accused the United States of continuing to restrict and suppress China.
Canada announced on Monday that it will match the 100% US tariff on imports of electric vehicles made in Chinaafter Sullivan encouraged him to do so during a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet ministers the day before.
(With information from KeynoteUSA)
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