The US and China pledge to stabilize their badly deteriorated ties as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
BEIJING — The United States and China have pledged to stabilize their badly deteriorated ties during a critical visit to Beijing by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who met Monday with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
"It is absolutely vital that we have these kinds of communications," he said. "This is something we're going to keep working on." "I hope that through this visit, Mr. Secretary, you will make more positive contributions to stabilizing China-U.S. relations," Xi added. Despite his presence in China, Blinken and other U.S. officials had played down the prospects for any significant breakthroughs on the most vexing issues facing the planet's two largest economies.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, shakes hands with China's top diplomat Wang Yi, right, at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on Monday. In the first round of talks on Sunday, Blinken met for nearly six hours with Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang, after which both countries said they had agreed to continue high-level discussions. However, there was no sign that any of the most fractious issues between them were closer to resolution.
And Biden said over the weekend that he hoped to be able to meet with Xi in the coming months to take up the plethora of differences that divide them.
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