China’s Foreign Minister Qin Gang met with the U.S. ambassador in Beijing, Nicholas Burns, on Monday in one of the highest-level meetings between U.S. and Chinese officials since a suspected Chinese sky balloon sent relations to new lows in February.
The meeting may pave the way for more senior-level exchanges after high-level contacts between Beijing and Washington were frozen following the discovery of a suspected surveillance balloon floating over the United States in February.The balloon, which Beijing claimed was for scientific purposes, caused Secretary of State Antony Blinken to cancel a trip to Beijing that was seen as a key step in arresting a worsening rivalry between the two countries.
“The agenda of dialogue and cooperation agreed by the two sides was disrupted, and the relationship between the two countries once again hit an icy patch,” he said. Before the meeting between Xi and Biden last year, ties were strained over a visit to Taiwan by then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi . Beijing, which says Taiwan is part of its territory and protests any visits by foreign dignitaries that support Taipei’s claims of sovereignty, launched military exercises surrounding its main island.At a regular news briefing in Beijing on Monday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said Washington could not continue to “suppress and contain” China.
Before the meeting between Qin and Burns, U.S. and Chinese trade officials met in Beijing in April, and Blinken met with China’s top diplomat, Wang Yi, on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference in Berlin in February.
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