“China has not responded to Washington's invitation”

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on August 3 that Washington has yet to receive a response to Wang Yi's invitation for newly appointed Foreign Minister Wang Yi to visit the US.

“We haven’t heard back yet, but we just made the invitation,” Mr. Blinken told reporters at United Nations headquarters in New York after he chaired a meeting on global food security.

“I hope we will have an opportunity to meet and continue the important conversations that I and a number of my colleagues in the Cabinet had in Beijing,” Mr. Blinken shared.

In late July, Mr. Wang was reappointed to the position of Foreign Minister of China, a position he previously held from 2013 to December 2022. Mr. Wang is also the Director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.

US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said on August 2 that the US had sent an invitation to Mr. Wang to Washington the day before, during a meeting between Mr. Daniel Kritenbrink, US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, and Mr. Yang Tao, Director of the Department of North America and Oceania at the Chinese Foreign Ministry.

US President Joe Biden has sent his top aides to Beijing in recent months to stabilize bilateral relations that have sunk to their lowest point since the two countries established diplomatic relations in 1979.

China's top diplomat Wang Yi meets US Secretary of State Antony Blinken during bilateral talks on the sidelines of the ASEAN meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia, July 13, 2023. Photo: SCMP

In mid-June, Mr. Blinken became the first U.S. secretary of state to visit China in five years. He met with Qin Gang, who had just been fired as secretary of state, as well as President Xi Jinping. Both sides described the talks as “frank and constructive.”

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is the next US administration official to visit Beijing, where she will hold hours-long meetings with Chinese Premier Li Qiang and Vice Premier He Lifeng.

Following Ms Yellen's trip was Biden's climate envoy, John Kerry, who met with his Chinese counterpart, Xie Zhenhua.

After a four-day trip that included closed-door talks, Mr. Kerry said he had “productive discussions.” Although no breakthroughs on climate cooperation were made, the two sides agreed to hold regular meetings.

Amid rising tensions over Biden's export controls on some semiconductor technologies aimed at hindering China's technological advancement, US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo is also expected to travel to Beijing later this August.

“It would be helpful to continue these conversations,” Secretary Blinken said on August 3. Blinken also noted that he had spoken with Wang in July on the sidelines of an ASEAN meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia, and expressed his desire to meet with him again in the United States .

Nguyen Tuyet (According to Anadolu Agency, SCMP)

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