This combination of pictures created on November 11, 2022 shows US President Joe Biden (L) addresses the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate from the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, next to the White House, in Washington, DC on June 17, 2022 and China’s President Xi Jinping (R) speaks after walking with members of the Chinese Communist Party’s new Politburo Standing Committee, the nation’s top decision-making body, to meet the media in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on October 23, 2022.
Published October 29, 2023
BEIJING, China — Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said the path to a meeting between President Xi Jinping and Joe Biden was “not smooth”, state media reported as the top diplomat wrapped up a rare visit to Washington.
Wang met with Biden and other senior US officials this week, with both sides agreeing on Friday to set up a meeting between the leaders next month.
Biden has invited Xi to San Francisco in November for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit at a time of tense relations between the two powers. Xi has not yet confirmed he will come.
Wang on Saturday told the audience at a Washington event hosted by the Aspen Strategy Group that “both sides hope to stabilise and improve bilateral relations as soon as possible and agreed to work together toward a San Francisco summit between the two heads of state,” state news agency Xinhua reported.
“The path to San Francisco is not smooth and cannot be left to ‘autopilot’,” Wang warned, according to Xinhua.
Biden and Xi have had no contact since a meeting in Bali in November 2022.
Relations have been tense for years between the world’s top two economies as they vie for influence in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond, and as Beijing boosts cooperation with Russia in a bid to reduce US dominance.
Wang on Saturday said the two sides must “eliminate interference, overcome obstacles, enhance consensus and accumulate results,” according to Xinhua.
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SOURCE: https://www.philstar.com/world/2023/10/29/2307461/chinese-fm-says-path-biden-xi-meeting-not-smooth
RELATED: China, US must return to ‘healthy, stable’ ties ‘at an early date’, Foreign Minister Wang Yi tells Biden
US President Joe Biden receives Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi at the White House on Friday. Photo: Xinhua
Published October 28, 2023
‘We must act in a responsible manner’, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi says during hour-long meeting with US President Joe Biden in Washington
Wang’s visit is part of a bilateral push for a potential sit-down between Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping on the Apec margins in November
China and the United States need to return to a healthy and stable development track “at an early date”, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told US President Joe Biden in Washington on Friday.
Their hour-long meeting preceded a potential sit-down between Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping on the margins of the Apec summit in California next month.
Wang’s meeting with Biden at the White House followed talks with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and national security adviser Jake Sullivan.
China attaches great importance to the US and hopes to stabilise and improve bilateral relations, Wang told Biden, reiterating remarks made earlier during his trip starting on Thursday.
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SOURCE: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3239518/china-us-must-return-healthy-stable-ties-early-date-foreign-minister-wang-yi-tells-biden
RELATED: US, China to work toward Biden-Xi meeting in Nov
WANG AT WHITE HOUSE United States President Joe Biden (right) shakes hands with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi at the White House in Washington, D.C. on Friday, Oct. 27, 2023. XINHUA PHOTO
Published October 28, 2023
After Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held talks with Biden and other senior US officials in Washington, the White House said both countries had agreed to keep up “high-level diplomacy” to try to smooth ties.
The two sides “reaffirmed” that they were “working together toward a meeting between President Biden and President Xi Jinping in San Francisco in November,” the White House said in a statement.
A senior administration official said the White House was leaving it to Beijing to confirm that Xi would come, but “we are making preparations for just such a meeting.”
An official readout of talks between Wang and US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan released by Beijing confirmed that “both sides agreed to make joint efforts to realize a meeting between the two heads of state.”
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SOURCE: https://www.manilatimes.net/2023/10/29/world/asia-oceania/us-china-to-work-toward-biden-xi-meeting-in-nov/1916827
