Wang Yi, Biden aide have 'candid, fruitful' talks
Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Saturday he’d had "candid, substantive and fruitful strategic communication" with US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan. In a statement on its website, the Foreign Ministry said the two-day meeting in Bangkok was aimed at furthering a pledge of dialogue by President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart, Joe Biden.  The ministry said the two officials had agreed to properly handle important and sensitive issues in Sino-US relations, adding that the countries’ respective leaders would "maintain regular contact to provide strategic guidance for bilateral relations... and make good use of the current strategic communication channels”. It added that Wang had told Sullivan that the two countries should seek common ground and reserve their differences rather than highlighting them. The ministry said Wang had also stressed that the United States must abide by the One-China principle and not support Taiwan independence. The statement added that the meeting had discussed issues such as the Middle East, Ukraine and the Korean Peninsula, as well as the South China Sea. The White House said in its statement on the meeting that although China and the United States are in competition, both countries need to prevent it from veering into confrontation. (Reuters/RTHK)