Secretary of State John Blinken and National Security Adviser John Sullivan will meet next Thursday in Anchorage, Alaska, with Yang Jiechi, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and Director of the Office of the Central Committee for Foreign Affairs, and Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, State Department spokesman Price announced Wednesday (10).
This is the first high-level meeting between the U.S. and China since President Joe Biden‘s administration took office. Price said in a post on a social networking site that the two sides will discuss a range of issues, including those on which they have differences.
Blinken will attend the talks when he returns from a visit to Japan and South Korea next week; earlier Wednesday, U.S. media sources said the talks were held in Alaska rather than Washington, D.C., or elsewhere on the U.S. mainland, so as not to draw too much attention to the Chinese side’s visit at Home. The U.S. media also quoted U.S. officials as saying that the topics of the meeting would include the Newcastle pneumonia (CCP) Epidemic, climate change, the CCP’s position on Hong Kong and pressure on Taiwan, and the CCP’s “unofficially announced economic embargo” on Australia.
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