Representatives of the world powers USA and China meet in Zurich
The US and China will hold a peak meeting in Switzerland on Wednesday amid tense relations. Biden’s security advisor speaks to top Chinese diplomat Yang.
The National Security Advisor to US President Joe Biden, Jake Sullivan and the top Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi will meet in Zurich, as the White House announced on Tuesday.
The deliberations serve to continue the exchange between the two countries after Biden made a phone call to China’s head of state Xi Jinping in September about a “responsible” competition. After the meeting in Zurich, Sullivan traveled on to Brussels and Paris. Yan is the Chinese Communist Party’s chief foreign policy officer.
Relations between the US and China have been extremely strained for years. The Biden government sees the economically and militarily emerging China as the greatest geopolitical challenge. The two largest economies in the world are embroiled in a trade dispute, among other things. Most recently, the US also sharply criticized the repeated Chinese fighter planes in the defensive airspace of Taiwan.