US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has launched a meeting with his Chinese counterpart at the Malaysia Summit on Friday, the first personal meeting between the two and the possible foreplay to the presidential summit.
The best American envoy and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi sat on the exchange in Kuala Lumpur, where both officials participate in the assembly of the Association of Southeast Asia, which ends on Friday. They did not give reporters before the interviews.
The meeting is one of the interactions of the highest level between the two countries since President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January. Positive conversations among the best ambassadors will increase the chance of a lines summit that can further alleviate tensions after their business ceasefire, although many friction points remain.
Rubio told journalists on Thursday that at any meeting with Wang would increase Chinese support Russia. “The Chinese clearly supported Russian efforts and I think they were generally willing to help them as much as possible without being caught,” said Sergei Lavrov after a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister.
Economic and diplomatic support in Beijing for Moscow after attacking Ukraine is just one of the many adhesive points in relationships between the two largest economies in the world.
In his last phone call in January, Rubio raised concerns about Chinese behavior towards Taiwan and the South China Sea, while Wang warned the US to carefully manage Taiwan affairs.
Trump said he would like to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping this year and the China’s chief official expressed optimism over bilateral ties last week.
In a telephone interview at the beginning of June XI invited Trump to visit China. The US administration addressed the executives to consider the interest in escorting him on a possible trip to China this year, Bloomberg News reported last week.
In February Wang traveled to New York to meet the UN Security Council, but there was no bilateral meeting with Trump administration. In the coming weeks, a number of Tit-for-form measures noted that the tariffs of Chinese products would jump up to 145%before they were suspended for 90 days after negotiations in May.
“Since Trump seems to be playing with the idea of meeting the XI on the edge of the EC summit, or even in Beijing, perhaps in early September, two higher diplomats of both countries could explore whether it was a promising procedure and it could blow up a bit of feathers.”
The US and China belong to the Asian-Pacific economic cooperation, the regional forum that the leaders of both nations have used as an opportunity to meet in recent years. South Korea organizes forum this year at the end of October and early November.
Signs have appeared in recent weeks that both sides have begun to fulfill promises in business interviews organized in Geneva and London in the last two months. China agreed to renew consignments of rare countries, while the US offered to alleviate some export limitations of ethane, chip software, and jet engines components.
US Finance Minister Scott Bessnt on Monday said CNBC that he was expecting to meet his Chinese counterpart in the coming weeks to discuss trade and other issues. Trade Minister Howard Lutnick said Broadcast Network that both parties would start a “larger business conversation” just before the fees expired.
China in 2020 was sanctioned twice by Rubio, who was then a Senator of Florida, over his criticism of Beijing’s treatment of Hong Kong and Xin -tiang, as well as his pressure on the laws of punishment of the Chinese government. Beijing indicated that sanctions would not affect official exchanges.
With the help of Gregory White.
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