China presents US with further demands to improve relations at meeting between Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Secretary of State Antony Blinken
- Both sides described the talks at the G20 in Bali as constructive, but Wang accused the US of not doing enough to build bridges
- Blinken said Washington wanted to continue talking, but accused China of supporting Russia’s war in Ukraine
Both US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi described their talks in Bali as “constructive”, with Wang saying they had created conditions for further high-level exchanges.
“Sino-US relations are still not out of the predicament created by the previous US administration, and they are even facing more and more challenges,” Wang said, according to the state news agency Xinhua.
He added that the US wrongly sees China as a threat, saying: “If this ‘threat’ theory is allowed to further develop, US policy towards China will be entering a dead end that it cannot exit”.
Wang said China has presented Blinken four demands: remedial action for Washington to take; a list of Beijing’s key concerns; US legislation it wants changing and eight areas where the two sides can cooperate.