U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Issues John Kerry arrived in Shanghai yesterday (April 14) for a three-day visit. According to foreign media reports, the area around the Dongjiao Hotel where he is staying is heavily guarded and his team is not expected to go outside during the entire visit.
Kerry is the first senior U.S. official to visit China since Biden took office. According to the Central News Agency, Kerry’s motorcade entered the Dongjiao Hotel at around 10 p.m. last night.
On the morning of the 15th, the Eastern Suburbs Hotel was under tight security, with a number of public security and armed police vehicles standing guard around the perimeter, while the hotel gatekeeper held a document to check the entering vehicles and people.
The report said that Kerry’s team will not leave the eastern suburbs hotel for the next three days for epidemic prevention reasons.
The Wall Street Journal, citing sources familiar with the matter, said Kerry will meet with Chinese climate envoy Xie Zhenhua while in Shanghai, as well as hold video conferences with other senior Communist Party officials in charge of economic and climate change affairs. In addition, Kerry is also likely to speak with Yang Jiechi, the Chinese Communist Party’s foreign affairs minister, and Foreign Minister Wang Yi.
It was noted that Biden sent his “close friend” former Senator Chris Dodd and two former dignitaries to Taiwan at the same time as Kerry’s visit to China, prompting Beijing to jump to its feet and Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian to claim that he had made “solemn representations” to the U.S. The Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian claimed that he had made “serious representations” to the U.S.
Not long ago, Yang Jiechi and Wang Yi visited the U.S., and the two sides were on fire as soon as they met. Recently, the military confrontation between the two sides in the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea has also become increasingly tense, and the outside world is waiting to see whether Kerry’s visit to China will open up cooperation between the two sides on climate and other issues.
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