Meeting of top US and Chinese diplomats a first since Trump’s election
The two sides use discussion on sidelines of G20 summit to agree to move their strained relations forward, according to People’s Daily
Foreign Minister Wang Yi met his American counterpart, Rex Tillerson, on Friday on the sidelines of the Group of 20 ministers meeting, marking the first face-to-face Sino-US encounter at a high level since the election of President Donald Trump.
During their meeting, Wang told Tillerson that the recent phone conversation between President Xi Jinping and Trump was “very important”, because Washington had made it clear that it would continue to adhere to the one-China policy, according to the Communist Party mouthpiece People’s Daily.
The paper said the two diplomats had agreed that China and the US “could become very good partners and should push forward bilateral relations”.
Mark Toner, a State Department spokesman, added that: “Tillerson also highlighted the increasing threat posed by North Korea’s nuclear and missile programmes and urged China to use all available tools to moderate North Korea’s destabilising behaviour.”
