The newspaper reported that Xie Feng, the new Chinese Ambassador to the United States, who serves as the Deputy Foreign Minister of China, may come to Washington on May 23. Policy With reference to informed sources.
Xie Feng arrives in the US at a time when US-China relations are at a 50-year low due to trade, Taiwan and the Chinese spy bubble incident in February. In a speech in March, Chinese President Xi Jinping accused the United States and other Western states of comprehensively surrounding, encircling and suppressing China, creating unprecedented serious problems for the country’s development. Such toughness has effectively frozen high-level diplomatic contacts since US President Joe Biden met with Xi Jinping on the Indonesian island of Bali last November.
However, according to Politico, Xie Feng’s arrival in the US indicates that Beijing may want to reduce bilateral hostilities. Such a scenario could be very likely after a two-day meeting in Vienna in the first third of May between national security adviser Jake Sullivan and senior Chinese diplomat Wang Yi. Both sides described this meeting as “candid, meaningful and constructive”. Xie Feng’s departure to the US follows Biden’s statement that bilateral relations “will start to warm up very soon” after the G-7 meeting in Hiroshima.
Washington, as previously reported ignores The possibility of lifting sanctions on Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu for the meeting of the heads of the US and Chinese military departments.