Antony Blinken to visit China next year to follow up on Biden-Xi discussions: White House
Antony Blinken
A senior US State Department official said on Monday (November 14) that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit China early next year. The US will work with its Chinese counterparts to plan this highly-anticipated visit.
US President Joe Biden also mentioned the visit during his face-to-face meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday as he said that Blinken will travel to China to follow up on discussions.
Biden-Xi's first in-person talks since 2017 happened on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia as both leaders discussed issues of mutual interest. They discussed the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, escalating North Korea tensions, and more.
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News agency AFP reported that a senior State Department official spoke on condition of anonymity and said that the two countries were working "to schedule a visit tentatively planned for early next year".
Blinken's visit would be the first by a US secretary of state since Mike Pompeo's visit. Pompeo served under then-president Donald Trump, and paid a brief visit to China in 2018.
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Biden-Xi meet
Meanwhile,Biden met his Chinese counterparton Monday and their statement on Taiwan issues emerged as one of the major takeaways.
Biden said that China has no "imminent" plans to invade Taiwan. His remarkscame after themeeting with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping.
Biden-Xi's first in-person talks since 2017 which happened on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia.
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Biden told a news conference: "I do not think there is any imminent attempt on the part of China to invade Taiwan. I made it clear that we want to see cross-strait issues peacefully resolved, and so it never has to come to that. I'm convinced that he understood exactly what I was saying; I understood what he was saying.
On the other hand,Xi was also explicit about Taiwan. He called it the "first red line" that must not be crossed in China-US relations.
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