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US, Chinese foreign ministers hold first talks since October
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BALI, 09 July 2022, (TON): US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi met for the first in-person talks since October after attending a G20 summit where the top US diplomat led efforts to pressure Russia over its war in Ukraine.
US officials say Blinken’s meeting with Wang in Bali, Indonesia, including a morning session of talks and a working lunch, is aimed at keeping the difficult US relationship with China stable and preventing it from veering inadvertently into conflict.
Blinken told reporters “there is no substitute for face to face diplomacy, and in a relationship as complex and consequential as the one between the United States and China there is a lot to talk about.”
He said “we very much look forward to a productive and constructive conversation.”
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