US secretary of state Antony Blinken addressed a number of contested issues in meetings with Xi Jinping and foreign minister Wang Yi during visit to Beijing
Officials close a curtain during a meeting between China 's president Xi Jinping and US secretary of state Antony Blinken at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Photograph: Mark Schiefelbein/AFP via Getty Imagesand Europe. Congress passed a Bill that could drive TikTok out of the US, the state department accused Beijing of continued acts of genocide against Uyghurs in Xinjiang province and a foreign military aid package included $8 billion for Taiwan.
In his meetings with Xi Jinping and foreign minister Wang Yi, Blinken addressed a number of contested issues, although he told reporters later that TikTok did not come up. But both sides were keen to emphasise the progress that has been made in stabilising the relationship between the US and China since last November’s meeting between Xi and Joe Biden in San Francisco.
Washington acknowledges that China has not been supplying weapons to Russia but it is increasingly concerned about the export of products such as machine tools which can be used in weapons production. China presents itself as neutral between Russia and Ukraine, although it provides diplomatic and economic support to Moscow and it regards the export of goods such as machine tools as legitimate trade. And it has not escaped anyone in Beijing that while Blinken condemns China’s indirect support for the killing of innocent people in Ukraine, his government is directly supplying the weapons deployed in Israel’s military campaign in Gaza.
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