National security adviser Jake Sullivan arrives in China for talks on fentanyl, Taiwan and more
President Joe Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan arrived in Beijing on Tuesday for several days of talks with top Chinese officials.
BEIJING — President Joe Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan is embarking on several days of talks with top Chinese officials in Beijing this week, aimed at quieting tensions between the two superpowers ahead of the U.S. election.
Sullivan, China’s top diplomat Wang Yi and others meet for the talks from Tuesday to Thursday as the two countries are at odds over the Middle East and Ukraine, Chinese territorial claims from Taiwan to the South China Sea, and trade.
Upon arrival in Beijing on Tuesday, Sullivan met first with Wang at a lush resort on the northern outskirts of the Chinese capital, where they shook hands in front of Chinese and American flags set before an artistic depiction of the Chinese landscape.
In his remarks in front of journalists, Wang described U.S.-China ties as “critical,” with a bearing on the world, and which have taken “twists and turns.”
Wang added that he hoped relations between the two countries would move to a condition of stable, healthy and sustainable development.
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