Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrived in Washington for a visit during which he met with President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and US National Security Advisor Jack Sullivan.
These talks are expected to pave the way for a future meeting between Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping. The American press talks about the trip of a high-ranking Chinese diplomat to the United States and the probability of a new round in Sino-American relations.
Edition He Wall Street Diary in its article points out that the very fact of the meeting does not mean that a compromise has been reached between the countries on any of the numerous controversial issues. These include the conflict in the Middle East, Taiwan, the war in Ukraine, North Korea, China’s involvement in the production of the opioid fentanyl and its “assertive” behavior in the East and South China Seas. The summit, while it will not resolve these differences, will demonstrate a commitment to managing tensions and preventing them from escalating into a head-on confrontation, the article said.
As the Chinese economy struggles with slowing growth and declining foreign investment, a potential meeting between Biden and Xi would be an opportunity to demonstrate that China is willing to put tensions aside in hopes of improving business confidence, he writes. The Wall Street Journal.
Ryan Hass, director of the China Studies Center at the Brookings Institution, also believes that China’s willingness to discuss issues with the US side may be related to Beijing’s economic problems. hassa quotes magazine News week: “When Xi (Jinping) faces a trust deficit within China amid a weakened economy and tense foreign relations, a more than routine meeting with Biden will be of added value for him,” Hass argues, believing that meetings and Agreements with the United States will allow Beijing to better govern relations with other actors in Asia and Europe.
American conservative publications paid more attention not to Wang Yi’s visit, but to the recent meeting of the US congressional delegation with Xi Jinping or California Governor Gavin Newsom’s visit to China.
However, in the article He Washington Examiner, Commenting on Wang Yi’s visit to Washington, says, that, despite the strong statements, one can hardly count on great success in the negotiations, because, according to the publication, relations between the United States and China continue in a downward spiral: “The United States accuses China of a forceful confrontation in the South China Sea and preparations for a forcible takeover of Taiwan, the publication writes. “Wang Yi arrived in Washington around the time a Chinese J-11 fighter jet was flying over a nuclear-armed U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber in international airspace over the South China Sea.”
In the midst of two active and potentially transformative conflicts in the Middle East and Europe, the United States hopes to find at least a modicum of understanding with China. the material says agencies Associated Press.
“The United States is disappointed by China’s support for Russia in the war against Ukraine and its relative silence in the Middle East, and also disagrees on issues such as human rights, climate change, Taiwan, the South China Sea and North Korea “say the authors. from the article note. “However, both sides have expressed their willingness to negotiate with each other following the Chinese spy balloon incident, which marked a low point in relations in recent years.”
During this visit it is unlikely that it will be possible to reach an agreement on the most controversial issues, with the exception of the need to stabilize relations between the two countries, he notes. The Washington Mail. Under current conditions, 90 percent of the success of a meeting is the very fact that participants arrive, the material says. “But the remaining 10% will be difficult.”
China would like to act quickly on economic issues such as easing US export restrictions, while the United States is more interested in resolving political differences and getting China on its side in solving global problems, the publication says. .
“In any case, the visit of Wang Yi, an experienced diplomat with a long history of contacts with the US government, is a sign that Beijing is committed to progress,” the article concludes.
