Antony Blinken will talk for the second time with Wang Yi, after a meeting in March in Alaska. Relations between the two countries remain very tense.
Le Monde with AFP
Tensions are strong between the two largest economies in the world. United States and China oppose several fronts, including trade, human rights, Taiwan and the Pandemic of Covid-19. As many topics that can be addressed between the leader of American diplomacy Antony Blinken and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, Sunday, October 31, on the margin of the G20 in Rome.
This meeting is on the Dominical Agenda of Mr. Blinken, announced the US State Department. This is the second only between the two men. The previous one took place last March, Alaska, and the Chinese delegation had reprimanded the American side in front of the television cameras.
Earlier this week, the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has given sixty days to China Telecom America to stop its services on American soil, where the Chinese company has been present for twenty years. Beijing had denounced a “malicious repression” with a measure that “compromises the atmosphere of cooperation” between the two countries.
The thorny taiwan file
Weapon passes have multiplied in recent days between China and the United States on the fate of Taiwan, island that enjoys a democratic system and has a government, a currency and an army . The territory, however, did not proclaim formal independence. Beijing threatens to resort to strength if that was the case.
This week, the President of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-Wen, confirmed the presence on his territory of a small number of American soldiers who came to bring his army and said to “trust” in the United States so that they defend his island against China.
Antony Blinken also sparked the Beijing IRE by advocating Tuesday’s “significant” participation “in the UN and internationally on the international scene.
President Joe Biden also claimed that the United States had “a commitment” to defend Taiwan militarily in case of Chinese attack, seeming to break with “strategic ambiguity”, even if his team then denied any change politics.