Sino -US high -level officials will hold talks on Alaska on Thursday (18th), and US officials say the United States will take an uncompromising position at that time.This is the first face -to -face talks since the US President Biden took office.
According to Reuters, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated in Tokyo on Wednesday: "We look forward to a chance to tell Chinese officials in a very clear way that we have some concerns we are taking actions."
Sino -US relations are currently at the lowest level in decades, and Beijing has called for the resettlement of relations between the two countries.But Washington said that Alaska talks will be one -time, and any future communication depends on China's improvement of its own behavior.
Brinken and US national security adviser Jake Sullivan will meet with Yang Jiechi, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, director of the Central Foreign Affairs Working Committee, and the State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi.Blint and Salvin have just visited allies of Japan and South Korea, aiming to emphasize the United States' commitments to the Indo -Pacific region in the face of China's rise.
This Ankrech meeting was the first face -to -face meeting of the former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Yang Jiechi since meeting in Hawaii last June, and may not achieve too much results.
Affected by the restrictions on epidemic prevention, this time the two parties did not have a plan to eat together, and there were banquet arrangements for the previous talks.And there are signs that the expectations of the two sides are far from the expectations of the talks.
Zhao Lijian, a spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, mentioned that during the talks, it was said to "high -level strategic dialogue".
A person who is familiar with the talks schedule in Beijing revealed that China hopes that this talks will help establish a broad framework to restore contact, not to solve specific problems.But the Biden government officials have made it clear that this Alaska talks is not to restore conventional dialogue.The Sino -US dialogue conducted by the previous U.S. government has been resolving Washington's concerns about Beijing.
The White House Press Secretary Pusky told reporters: "We expect that some dialogue may be difficult."
A senior official of the US government said at the briefing that if Beijing wants to change the tone of the relationship between the two parties, Washington will see China's "action instead of speaking."