The official website of the Chinese Embassy in the United States denied on Saturday that senior Chinese officials hoped to visit the United States in the near future in a “spokesman’s question-and-answer” format.
The Wall Street Journal recently cited sources familiar with the matter as saying that Beijing had proposed sending Yang Jiechi, a member of the Communist Party’s top policy-making body, to Washington, D.C., starting last December in an effort to restart troubled U.S.-China relations. The proposal, made in a letter and through conversations with intermediaries by CCP Ambassador Cui Tiankai shortly after CCP leader Xi Jinping congratulated Biden on his election as U.S. president, included meetings with senior staffers of President Joe Biden and hoped to facilitate Biden’s first meeting with Xi since taking office.
The revelation sparked concern that China is eager to push for a shift in U.S.-China relations. A spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in the U.S. said Saturday that the reports were not factually correct, that China had not written such a letter, and that it “hopes the media concerned will respect the facts and report on U.S.-China relations in an objective and responsible manner.”
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