US envoys to visit China. The US government is sending its first high-level delegation to China since a initiate made last month by Chinese leader Xi Jinping and US President Joe Biden to repair worn relations.
Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Daniel Kritenbrink will join National Security Council Senior Director for China and Taiwan Laura Rosenberger on the December 11-14 trip.
The two will visit China, South Korea and Japan.
In China, Kritenbrink will follow up on Biden’s gathering in Bali last month with Xi in which the pair vowed “to continue responsibly managing the competition between our two countries and to explore potential areas of cooperation”, the State Department said.
Kritenbrink will also arrange for Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to China in early 2023, the first visit by the top US diplomat in four years, it added.
US envoys to visit China. The United States and China the two major economies in the world, spend more than any other nations on their militaries and locked in fierce strategic competition.
In their Bali meeting, the two leaders debated contentious issues, containing Taiwan’s future, US restrictions on Chinese high-tech imports and China’s moves to increase its influence around the world.
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Biden left his meeting with Xi proclaiming that there need not be a new Cold War, whereas Xi told Biden the two countries “share more, not less, common interests”.