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BEIJING, China (AFP) — The top Chinese and US security advisers have held lengthy talks, with both sides describing them as “candid” following days of acrimonious exchanges over Taiwan and other flashpoint issues. Readouts of the meeting in Luxembourg on Monday were toned down compared with last week, when China’s defence minister warned his country would not “hesitate to start a war” over Taiwan, while the US defense secretary blasted Beijing’s “provocative, destabilising” military […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — China’s top diplomat told President Donald Trump that Beijing was willing to keep working with Washington to defuse tensions on the Korean peninsula — days after the United States leader implied that Chinese efforts had failed. The meeting between State Councillor Yang Jiechi and Trump at the White House on Thursday also came after US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson urged China to step up diplomatic and economic pressure on […]
WASHINGTON, United States (Reuters) — U.S. President Donald Trump, who has attacked China on issues from trade to the South China Sea, held his first face-to-face talks with a member of the Chinese leadership on Monday (February 27), and the White House said it was a chance to discuss shared security interests and a possible meeting with President Xi Jinping. State Councilor Yang Jiechi, China’s top diplomat, met Trump briefly after talks with the new […]
BEIJING, China (Reuters) — Shotaro Yachi, head of Japan’s National Security Council, met with Chinese state councilor Yang Jiechi on Thursday (August 25) for talks in Beijing. The two shook hands at the Diaoyutai state guesthouse before sitting down to talks in which they discussed improving relations between the two countries. Yachi is expected to meet Premier Li Keqiang later on Thursday afternoon. Sino-Japanese relations, coloured by Japan’s occupation of parts of China before and […]
Eagle News — Chinese state councilor Yang Jiechi said that the South China Sea arbitration will not “in the slightest way” shake china’s resolve to pursue the path of peaceful development. He said, china adheres to negotiation and consultation as a means for addressing relevant territorial and maritime delimitation issues, and resolutely safeguards peace and stability in the region. The South China Sea, important to the Chinese people since ancient times, is our heritage to […]
