July 28, 2024

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met in Vientiane, Laos on Saturday to exchange views on bilateral relations, agreeing to maintain communication at all levels and further implement the important common understandings reached at the San Francisco meeting last November between the two heads of state.

During his meeting with Blinken, Wang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, said that in the past three months, the diplomatic, financial, law enforcement and climate teams of the two sides as well as the two militaries have maintained communication, along with increased people-to-people exchanges.

However, he said it must be pointed out that the U.S. side has not refrained from moving to contain and suppress China, and in fact has gone even further.

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