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China to Discuss Taiwan, Development Rights During Sullivan’s Visit

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Beijing, 26 August 2024 (TDI): China will focus on raising serious concerns regarding the Taiwan question, addressing development rights and strategic security in talks with the US during National Security Advisor Jack Sullivan’s upcoming visit to Beijing, China’s Foreign Ministry said on Sunday.

Sullivan will arrive in China for a three-day visit on Tuesday.

Sullivan’s trip is at the invitation of Wang Yi, China’s Foreign Minister and member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and director of the Office of the Central Commission for Foreign Affairs, foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said in a statement.

Mao said that the two sides will hold a new round of China-US strategic discussions.

Wang’s meeting with Sullivan in Beijing is a key outcome of the consensus reached between the two heads of state in Bali in November 2022. Since that time, Sullivan and Wang have held three rounds of substantive and constructive strategic discussions in Vienna, Malta, and Bangkok, yielding positive results, according to the Department of North

American and Oceanian Affairs of China’s Foreign Ministry.

It said that noting both sides have agreed to continue to make good use of this communication channel.

This is also the first trip to China by a US national security chief in 8 years, and an important measure to implement the consensus reached by two heads of state at the San Francisco summit in 2023.

Following the San Francisco summit, diplomatic, economic, climate change, military and law enforcement teams from both countries have maintained communication, and people-to-people exchanges between the two nations have increased. At the same time, Washington continues to contain and suppress Beijing, while China has resolutely counteracted.

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China-US ties are still at a critical juncture of stabilizing relations and preventing it from declining, according to the foreign ministry.
Under such context, Wang will have an in- depth discussions with Sullivan on China-US relations, sensitive issues and major international and regional hot topics.

 

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