Washington: US Secretary of State Tony Blinken on Friday bluntly told China’s top diplomats that Beijing’s actions threatened the rules-based order that maintains global stability, as the two countries had a tense exchange during their first in-person high-level meeting since President Joe Biden took office.
In his opening remarks to the much-anticipated US-China talks being held in Anchorage, Alaska, with the Director of the Office of the Central Commission for Foreign Affairs of the ruling Communist Party of China Yang Jiechi and Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Blinken said that the issues to be raised by his delegation are relevant not only to the two countries but to others across the region and indeed around the world.
The Biden administration, Blinken asserted, is committed to leading with diplomacy to advance the interests of the United States and to strengthen the rules-based international order.
The meeting was also attended by National…