Disastrous’ for US to decouple from China, Blinken says after meeting Xi during Beijing trip to salvage ties
1 of 2US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (left) meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on June 19. PHOTO: XINHUA
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (fourth from left) at a meeting with China's President Xi Jinping (centre) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on June 19. PHOTO: AFP
Tan Dawn Wei and Elizabeth Law
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BEIJING – United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday afternoon, wrapping up his two-day trip to Beijing that both sides acknowledged to be a good first step to mending frayed ties between the two major powers.
Mr Xi, sitting at the head of a large meeting table in the Great Hall of the People, told the American top envoy and his delegation seated to his right that the world needed a stable US-China relationship and that other countries are unwilling to choose sides.
Both the US and China have a responsibility to “inject stability, certainty and constructiveness into a turbulent world”, Mr Xi was quoted as saying by the Foreign Ministry.