Chinese Foreign Minister to Visit US

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Facts

  • Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, the PRC's top diplomat, is scheduled to visit the US on Thursday to start a three-day visit and to meet with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and national security adviser Jake Sullivan.1
  • Wang’s visit will occur approximately three weeks before the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco, where there’s a chance Pres. Joe Biden could meet with Xi Jinping, Biden’s Chinese counterpart.2
  • Xi’s potential visit to the US has not been confirmed, but there are hopes he’ll take the next step toward cooling tensions between the two countries who’ve fallen out since 2018 over a trade imbalance, human rights in Xinjiang province, tensions over the South China Sea and Taiwan, and other issues.1
  • This trip is also being made to reciprocate for Blinken’s visit to Beijing over the summer.3
  • The meeting, which was confirmed Monday by White House officials, will feature discussions about the wars in Israel and Ukraine, North Korea’s weapons program, and China's actions in the South China Sea.4
  • Previously, Blinken on Oct.14 spoke with Wang by phone and urged China to persuade its allies in the Middle East to work to prevent the Israel-Palestine conflict from expanding in the region.5

Sources: 1Associated Press, 2The hill, 3Reuters, 4Bloomberg and 5CNN.

Narratives

  • Pro-China narrative, as provided by Global times. It's wonderful that the US has tamped down its combative rhetoric and is pursuing a dialogue with China, which has never wanted anything other than peace between the countries. True cooperation, however, will only be achieved when the US puts its words and actions into alignment by no longer politicizing its trade policy, avoiding military threats against China, and abiding by the agreed-upon One China principle.
  • Anti-China narrative, as provided by Voice of america. The US has always sought a constructive relationship with China, but Beijing has often made this difficult with its actions in the South China Sea and Taiwan, its unbalanced trade policies, and its unhelpful relations with countries like Russia and Iran. But meeting face-to-face in both countries will be the best way to ease any tensions moving forward.

Predictions