White House national security adviser JakeSullivan46 met with Chinese Communist Party Politburo Member and Director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission Wang Yi this week.
The two leaders met in Vienna, Austria, on Wednesday and Thursday, engaging in"candid, substantive, and constructive discussions on key issues in the U.S.-China bilateral relationship, global and regional security issues, Russia’s war against Ukraine, and cross-Strait issues, among other topics," according to a White House readout of their meeting.Their meeting comes amid talk of a conversation between President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
China has snubbed U.S. requests for high-level communication dating back to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken postponing his trip to China in early March after Beijing was accused of operating a surveillance balloon that traversed the continental U.S. before the military shot it down off the coast of South Carolina.
“And [Chinese officials take the view] that if we want to avoid crises, there's a simple solution and that's just to get out of the Western Pacific, and to abandon our alliances and partnerships, and leave,” the Pentagon’s Colin Kahl, undersecretary of defense for policy, told Foreign Policy last month. “And leave that part of the world to be an exclusive sphere of influence lorded over by Beijing.
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