Senior diplomats from China and the United States held 'candid and productive' talks in Beijing and agreed to keep open lines of communication to avoid tensions from spiraling into conflict, officials said Tuesday.
and agreed to keep open lines of communication to avoid tensions from spiraling into conflict, officials said Tuesday.
On Monday, Daniel Kritenbrink, assistant U.S. secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, was the most senior U.S. official confirmed to have visited China since tensions between Washington andU.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the time postponed a planned trip to China, andhas since largely rebuffed attempts at official exchanges, though two top U.S. and Chinese defense officials briefly interacted at a forum in Singapore over the weekend.
China’s Foreign Ministry said Kritenbrink and Vice Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu “had candid, constructive and fruitful communication on promoting the improvement of China-U.S. relations and properly managing differences.”said it stated its “solemn position on Taiwan” - a self-ruled island China claims as its territory to be annexed by force if necessary - and other issues, and that the two sides had agreed to maintain communication.
The U.S. State Department also said the two officials held “candid and productive discussions as part of ongoing efforts to maintain open lines of communication and build on recent high-level diplomacy between the two countries.” The U.S. Navy complained Sunday about an “unsafe interaction” in the Taiwan Strait, after a Chinese warship came within 150 yards of a U.S. destroyer. In May, a Chinese fighter jet flew dangerously close to a U.S. reconnaissance aircraft over the South China Sea, whereCIA Director William Burns reportedly took a secret trip last month toCopyright © 2023 The Washington Times, LLC.
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