The United States and China will hold their first high-level contact meeting tomorrow since Biden entered the White House. U.S. officials revealed that the U.S. and China met on topics including U.S. requests for China to improve relations with Australia. According to the White House National Security Council Indo-Pacific Coordinator Campbell (Kurt Campbell) said in an interview with the Sydney Morning Herald, every Time U.S. and Chinese officials meet, they will mention the Chinese Communist Party‘s “economic coercion” of Australia, and “bilateral interactions in Anchorage (Anchorage) later this week This will also be highlighted in bilateral interactions in Anchorage later this week.
According to a Reuters report today, the United States has asked China to improve relations with Australia. A senior U.S. official said Tuesday that the Biden Administration has told China that normalizing relations with Australia is a prerequisite for Washington to take major steps to improve U.S.-China relations. Kurt Campbell, the White House National Security Council’s Indo-Pacific coordinator, said in an interview with the Sydney Morning Herald that every time U.S. and Chinese officials meet, they mention the Communist Party’s “economic coercion” of Australia, and “that will be emphasized in our bilateral interaction in Anchorage later this week. This will also be emphasized during bilateral interactions in Anchorage later this week.
Secretary of State Blinken will meet with Yang Jiechi, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and head of the Central Committee’s Foreign Affairs Working Committee Office, and State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Alaska on March 18, the first high-level face-to-face meeting between the two countries since the Biden administration took office.
In an exclusive interview published Tuesday, Campbell noted, “We have made it clear that the United States is not prepared to improve the bilateral relationship or to deal with it otherwise while a close ally is under some form of economic coercion.” Campbell said Biden told Australian Prime Minister Morrison at a meeting of leaders of the Group of Four (QUAD Group) on Friday that “on this issue, we are united in our position.” The group also includes Japan and India. We are fully aware of the situation and the United States is not prepared to take substantive action to improve relations (with China) unless such policies are corrected and more normal interaction is established between Australia and China,” Campbell said, according to Campbell.
According to Reuters, China-Australia relations have been strained over the past year, with Australia demanding an international investigation into the source of the New Crown virus (a Chinese Communist Party virus) and the Chinese Communist Party retaliating on the trade front with products involving Australian coal, wine, barley, seafood, beef and timber, among others. Campbell told the Sydney Morning Herald that such measures by the Chinese Communist Party are not only aimed at Australia, but also the Philippines, Vietnam, Taiwan and Japan.
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