BEIJING: China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi has discussed lifting sanctions against Chinese firms and individuals in a meeting with US top diplomat Antony Blinken at the Munich Security Conference, the Chinese foreign ministry said in a statement on Saturday.
According the Chinese foreign ministry, they also discussed facilitating people-to-people exchanges in the meeting held on Friday, the ministry said, adding the exchanges between the two top diplomats were “frank, constructive and substantial”.
#China‘s Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with his #American counterpart, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony #Blinken, at the security conference in Munich on Friday. pic.twitter.com/aAZRIiSxSQ
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Blinken and Wang Yi also exchanged views on regional matters including war in Ukraine and the Korean Peninsula, the statement maintained, without giving more details. It said the Korean Peninsula ambassadors of both sides will “stay in touch”.
The US and China have made some progress in bilateral ties since Chinese President Xi Jinping held meeting with US President Joe Biden in November, where they agreed covering military communications, fentanyl, and artificial intelligence on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit.
The US and China held their first joint meeting of a working group on fentanyl precursor chemicals in Beijing in January and China’s financial officials also hosted US Treasury officials earlier this month.
