Posted on 06/19/2023 5:35:16 AM PDT by FarCenter
Blinken's visit is the highest-level trip by a US official to China in nearly five years with ties severely strained between the world's two largest economies.
Speaking following his meeting with Xi, the top US diplomat said he agreed with China's leadership on the need to "stabilise" relations but that he was "clear-eyed" on vast disagreements between the two countries.
"Direct engagement and sustained communication at senior levels is the best way to responsibly manage differences and ensure that competition does not veer into conflict," Blinken told reporters.
"I heard the same from my Chinese counterparts. We both agree on the need to stabilise our relationship," he added.
Xi, China's most powerful leader in decades, met Blinken at the capital's Great Hall of the People, Chinese state media and US officials said.
"The Chinese side has made our position clear and the two sides have agreed to follow through the common understandings President Biden and I had reached in Bali," Xi told the top US diplomat.
"Two sides have also made progress and reached agreement on some specific issues," he added, without elaborating.
"I hope that Secretary Blinken, through this visit, can make positive contributions to stabilising China-US relations."
The meeting, which lasted just over half an hour, came after Blinken held more than 10 hours of talks over two days with other top officials.
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Any pics of blinken kowtowing to xi?
Who here on FR believes there is a single employee in the State Department that isn’t already beholden to communist ideology?
The Biden Admin knows the Chinese Communist Party is falling apart and is planing on propping it up
“Progress” — aka, Biden cashed Xi’s check.
Must be new US polling out.
“The meeting, which lasted just over half an hour, came after Blinken held more than 10 hours of talks over two days with other top officials.”
10 hours? That’s a lot of gay marriage demanding.
Blinker’s body language says it all.
Xi has a big smile. Blinken has deer in the headlights look.
China holds all the cards. How is the U.S. going to negotiate anything more than surrender?
Blinken isn’t there to negotiate.
He’s there to receive instructions.
China holds all the cards.
Foreign companies are running away from china as fast as they can
Right...as long as we do what we’re told.
Taking the hard line, Blinkin managed to secure talks about having talks. Winkin was very proud. Nod just nodded.
What order/demand put that look on Blinken’s face...
Xi....looks like those hundreds of statues...
If XI sees “progress” then Blinken blinked and we’re screwed.
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