Wang Yi, Blinken meet at Asean talks
The nation’s top diplomat and the US Secretary of State met on Thursday for the second time in as many months. Wang Yi, the top foreign policy official, and Antony Blinken saw each other on the sidelines of Association of Southeast Asian Nations talks in the Indonesian capital. "Director, good to see you," Blinken told Wang with a smile as they shook hands before US and Chinese flags at a Jakarta hotel. The two then went into talks with their aides and made no comments to assembled reporters. The Jakarta talks come nearly a month after Blinken travelled to Beijing, the first visit by a US secretary of state in nearly five years, and met President Xi Jinping as well as Wang and Foreign Minister Qin Gang. Blinken's Beijing trip opened a flurry of diplomacy, with Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen visiting the capital last week and a trip by climate envoy John Kerry set for the coming days. (AFP)