Agenda for US-China talks includes Taiwan, South China Sea, Russia and AI
- US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi are set for three days of meetings in Beijing this week
In addition to Taiwan and tariffs, when US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi meet this week, they will discuss counternarcotics, better communication between the nations’ militaries and improved artificial intelligence security, a senior White House official said Monday.
“Mr. Sullivan’s trip to China was discussed by the two leaders last November. A lot of planning and scheduling went into it since then, and they’re now executing it in Beijing,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said.
Sullivan’s meeting, his fifth with Wang, will be the first trip by a US national security adviser to Beijing since 2016, when Susan Rice of the Barack Obama administration travelled there.
Additionally, Sullivan is expected to raise US concerns regarding security in the Indo-Pacific region, China’s support for Russia’s defence industrial base as well as other international hotspots, including North Korea, the Middle East and Myanmar, a senior US official said last week.
On Sunday, China’s Foreign Ministry said that Beijing regarded Sullivan’s trip as “an important step for the two sides to implement the common understandings the two presidents had at their San Francisco meeting,” but that Wang would take the opportunity to raise “serious concerns” about Taiwan.
