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Chinese foreign vice-minister Ma Zhaoxu to visit US in latest exchange
- Ma, who oversees US-China relations, will travel to United States for four days, foreign ministry says
- He will meet US deputy secretary of state Kurt Campbell and representatives of ‘various sectors’
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Hayley Wongin Beijing
Chinese foreign vice-minister Ma Zhaoxu will visit the United States for four days from Thursday, the latest in a string of exchanges between the two sides in recent months.
Ma, who oversees US-China relations, will meet US deputy secretary of state Kurt Campbell and representatives of “various sectors” during the trip, Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning told reporters in Beijing on Wednesday.
The meeting between Ma and Campbell follows a phone call between the two senior officials in March, when they discussed a range of regional and global issues as part of efforts to maintain communication and cooperation.
Earlier this year, Beijing and Washington also resumed military-to-military talks after communication was suspended in 2022, as relations deteriorated between the two nations. Their defence chiefs are expected to meet during the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore later this week.
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As a key step to improve strained ties, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited China last month and met President Xi Jinping, with the two sides agreeing to continue high-level engagement.
Xi said during the talks that the two countries had made some “positive progress” in various fields since he met US President Joe Biden in San Francisco in November, but that there was room for “further efforts” on problems that remained unresolved.
Beijing and Washington are at loggerheads over a wide range of issues – from China’s manufacturing overcapacity to the US selling advanced military technologies to Taiwan.
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