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TAIPEI: Senior diplomats from China and the United States held “frank and productive” talks in Beijing and agreed to keep lines of communication open to avoid tensions spiraling into conflict, officials said on Tuesday.
on monday, Daniel KrightenbrinkUS Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, was the most senior US official confirmed to have visited China since tensions between Washington and Beijing escalated with the shooting down of a Chinese spy balloon over the US in early February.
city police Anthony Blink At the time, she postponed a planned trip to China, and Beijing has since largely rebuffed attempts at formal exchanges, though two senior US and Chinese defense officials interacted briefly at a forum in Singapore over the weekend.
China’s foreign ministry said Kreitenbrink and Vice Foreign Minister Ma Zhaozhou “had frank, constructive and fruitful communication on furthering the improvement of Sino-US relations and properly managing differences.”
Beijing said it had made its “official position on Taiwan” — a self-ruled island that demands China annex its territory by force if necessary — and other issues, and that the two sides agreed to maintain communication.
The US State Department also said the officials had “frank and productive discussions as part of ongoing efforts to maintain open lines of communication and build on modern, high-level diplomacy between the two countries.”
The US Navy on Sunday complained of an “unsafe interaction” in the Taiwan Strait, after a Chinese warship came within 150 yards (137 metres) of a US destroyer. In May, a Chinese fighter jet flew dangerously close to a US surveillance plane over the South China Sea, where Beijing shares overlapping territorial claims with other countries.
The director of the CIA, William Burns, reportedly took a secret trip last month to Beijing in another sign that the two sides are interested in reestablishing contact through different channels.
on monday, Daniel KrightenbrinkUS Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, was the most senior US official confirmed to have visited China since tensions between Washington and Beijing escalated with the shooting down of a Chinese spy balloon over the US in early February.
city police Anthony Blink At the time, she postponed a planned trip to China, and Beijing has since largely rebuffed attempts at formal exchanges, though two senior US and Chinese defense officials interacted briefly at a forum in Singapore over the weekend.
China’s foreign ministry said Kreitenbrink and Vice Foreign Minister Ma Zhaozhou “had frank, constructive and fruitful communication on furthering the improvement of Sino-US relations and properly managing differences.”
Beijing said it had made its “official position on Taiwan” — a self-ruled island that demands China annex its territory by force if necessary — and other issues, and that the two sides agreed to maintain communication.
The US State Department also said the officials had “frank and productive discussions as part of ongoing efforts to maintain open lines of communication and build on modern, high-level diplomacy between the two countries.”
The US Navy on Sunday complained of an “unsafe interaction” in the Taiwan Strait, after a Chinese warship came within 150 yards (137 metres) of a US destroyer. In May, a Chinese fighter jet flew dangerously close to a US surveillance plane over the South China Sea, where Beijing shares overlapping territorial claims with other countries.
The director of the CIA, William Burns, reportedly took a secret trip last month to Beijing in another sign that the two sides are interested in reestablishing contact through different channels.
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