BANGKOK: China’s top diplomat Wang Yi has said that the US and China should treat each other as equals rather than take a disdainful attitude, seek common matters rather than accentuate differences and sincerely respect rather than challenge each other’s core interests. Wang Yi held a new round of talks with US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan here from Friday to Saturday in Bangkok, Chinese media reported.
He said that Washington must abide by the one-China principle and the three China-US joint communiques and put into action its commitment not to support “Taiwan independence”, and support the peaceful reunification of China.
Sullivan and Wang “had candid, substantive and fruitful talks on implementing the consensus reached at the San Francisco talks… and on properly handling significant and sensitive matters in US-China ties”, a statement on China’s ministry of foreign affairs website issued Saturday evening said.
According to AFP, China said that Wang Yi and Jake Sullivan held “candid, practical and fruitful” talks in Bangkok, where matters including Taiwan were discussed.
The US and China have clashed in recent years on flashpoint matters from technology to trade. In an attempt to improve some of the worst ties in decades, Joe Biden met Xi Jinping in San Francisco in November for talks that they described as a qualified success.
