UK’s James Cleverly is latest to travel to Beijing hoping to improve ties and change Chinese foreign policy
What can these visits achieve? Prof Steve Tsang, the director of the Soas China Institute, said ministerial-level in-person contact was always useful. “But this is unlikely to change China’s foreign policy, which is made by Xi and is required to adhere to Xi thought,” he said. “Xi wants [Vladimir] Putin to stay in power and stay strong, and this will not change, whatever Cleverly may have to say.”
Blinken raised Russia’s invasion during his meetings in June with Xi, with the then foreign minister, Qin Gang, and with China’s top diplomat – now Qin’s replacement – Wang Yi. He received assurances that Beijing would not supply arms to Russia, but multiple reports have found Chinese sources have indirectly helped Russian forces with supplies.
Sung said foreign officials would probably keep raising human rights concerns, but their main focus would be on managing the economic relationship. On Wednesday the US commerce secretary, Gina Raimondo, who is in Beijing this week, said she had had “candid” meetings in which she “didn’t pull any punches” about economic and business ties between the US and China. “I was able to explain clearly that we will protect what we must and promote what we can.
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