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Exclusive | China, US eye further talks with Yang Jiechi set to meet Jake Sullivan
- Top Chinese diplomat Yang to hold talks with US national security adviser in Switzerland, sources say
- They aim to rebuild communication channels and implement consensus reached between presidents Xi Jinping and Joe Biden, one source says
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China’s top diplomat Yang Jiechi will hold talks with US national security adviser Jake Sullivan in Switzerland this week, according to sources familiar with details of the meeting.
The talks between the pair – said to most likely take place on Wednesday – will come less than a month after a telephone call between the two nations’ presidents, Xi Jinping and Joe Biden.
“It can be seen as a meeting in which the two sides attempt to rebuild communication channels and implement the consensus reached between the two leaders,” a person familiar with the arrangements said.
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A second source said Yang was to leave China on Tuesday, and one item on the agenda was the possibility of a summit between Xi and Biden.
The meeting will also come just a day after US trade representative Katherine Tai formally laid out the White House’s China trade policy in a speech to Washington think tank the Centre for Strategic and International Studies.
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In the long-awaited speech on Monday, Tai said China had failed to meet some of the commitments in the two nations’ phase one trade deal, and sounded pessimistic that the situation would change without a hard line.
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