Beijing: In a relationship full of America and China, only an agreement that productive talks are signs of progress.
Nine months to the presidency of Joe Biden, both parties finally tried to facilitate the tension originating from the Trump administration – even though M.S.
Complaints about Chinese policies about trade, Taiwan and other problems reduced slightly.
Closed meetings in Zurich on Wednesday between Jiechi’s senior Chinese foreign policy advisor and the White House of the National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan was not accompanied by public persistence on display at the previous meeting.
After a six-hour conversation, the US revealed an agreement in principle for the virtual Summit between Biden and Chinese leader XI Jinping at the end of the year.
Both have spoken via telephone twice since Biden became president in January but did not hold a formal meeting.
The main difference divides what many people measure the two most powerful countries in the world when they are jostling for what each of which is seen as a legitimate place in the world order.
Some differences in regional security and trade and technology may not be reconciled, but successful talks can manage it and prevent the foundation that prevents cooperation in other regions such as climate change.
“I don’t think this marks the turnaround and somehow we will have an era of gold, but maybe we have found the floor, or floor, where the relationship will not sink deeper,” said Drew Thompson, a former US defense official who manages military relations -We-military with China, Taiwan and Mongolia.
Thompson, a colleague of visits at the National University of Singapore, said the meeting in Zurich went “spectacularly good” compared to the March meeting in Alaska who was attended by Yang and Sullivan and other A.-Chinese meetings in the last three years.
Zhao Kejinar, a professor of international relations at Tsinghua University in Beijing, described the current direction in an effort to ease tensions and said the XI-Biden meeting could give the effort.
“Compared to tense relationships during the Trump administration, the current relationship moves towards mitigation,” he said.
“As far as how far it will move, we will wait and see.” One thorn in the relationship was removed two weeks ago when a prosecutor reached an agreement with Chinese telecommunications executives which ended the prolonged extradition process in Canada and let it go back to China.
Shortly after, two Canadians held by China for more than two years were released, and two Americans who had been blocked from leaving China were allowed to return to the United States.
And earlier this week, Chinese Media Country highlighted comments by Top Biden Trade Officers, Katherine Tai, that she planned honest conversations with Chinese colleagues in completing the tariff war.
However, administration A.S., has not said whether to apply for Chinese demands to roll back rates, which are collected under former President Donald Trump.
There is little sign of easing in regional security, where Chinese territorial and strategic ambitions in the West Pacific ran into pushback from the US military and its allies.
China flew a number of military aircraft records in southern Taiwan during the last four-day period, which he called at risk and destabilization.
Flights came as US and five other countries carried out naval maneuvers along with three aircraft carriers in northeast Taiwan.
China describes such exercises as provocation.
Biden was also under pressure from human rights activists and Republicans to maintain the company’s lines in China even when his government tried to work together on climate change and to get North Korea to end his nuclear weapons program.
US Senator Marco Rubio, a Republic of Florida and frequent critics, Tweeted Wednesday that Biden is “dangerous delusion” if he thinks he can get a climate agreement by understating “big power competitions” with China.
Beijing residents are careful about the future of relationships, but some say it is better for both sides to talk than not.
They blamed the hostile US attitude to the state of relations, echo the position of the Chinese government.
“I don’t have a good impression about A.S.,” he said Taiqin.
“I feel that the country is arrogant and aggressive.”