{"id":35249,"date":"2023-06-19T06:18:20","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T06:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=35249"},"modified":"2026-07-10T02:43:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T02:43:20","slug":"us-and-chinas-top-diplomats-meet-amid-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/06\/19\/us-and-chinas-top-diplomats-meet-amid-tensions\/","title":{"rendered":"US and China’s top diplomats meet amid tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Antony Blinken’s meeting with senior Chinese diplomat Wang Li ended at approximately half past noon, according to the State Department – an hour over the scheduled time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The secretary of state\u2019s afternoon is full of a variety of meetings, although they are all closed to the press. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He\u2019s currently scheduled to be visiting with current and former exchange students. He then talks with US embassy personnel and local American business leaders. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is still no mention of a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, although the secretary has open time remaining on his schedule later in the day before his planned evening press conference and departure for London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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High-level meetings between governments are normally pretty formal affairs and, even behind closed doors, can be rather boring\u2026 then again there was the\u00a0Great Anchorage Meltdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the first such high-level meeting between Beijing and Washington during the Biden presidency, attacks were being traded from the outset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were lots of heavy hitters in Alaska for the meeting: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, national security adviser Jake Sullivan, China\u2019s senior foreign policy official and politburo member Yang Jiechi, as well as then Foreign Minister Wang Yi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was none of this talk of \u201cour two great nations working together\u201d. It went straight into alleged cyber-attacks, economic coercion, Hong Kong\u2019s crackdown and allegations of human rights abuses at Xinjiang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yang accused the US of using its “military force and financial hegemony to carry out long-arm jurisdiction and suppress other countries\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chinese nationalists ended up using some of the barbs from Beijing\u2019s representatives and putting them on t-shirts, bags and even beer bottles as a kind of \u201ctake that\u201d to the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

story by Anthony Zurchar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Antony Blinken’s meeting with senior Chinese diplomat Wang Li ended at approximately half past noon, according to the State Department – an hour over the scheduled time.  The secretary of state\u2019s afternoon is full of a variety of meetings, although they are all closed to the press.  He\u2019s currently scheduled to be visiting with current […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":35251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[461,12],"tags":[11261,9517,11264,7273,8311,11394,6263,5178,6044,7421,10460,11996,6197,8041,5663,6060,5345,3883,10840,1821,3684,9833,5572,7693,12085,96,7574,3805,11243,5655,6047,2711,10023,9262,6348,8309,1151,7133,9927,10260,9601,2354,7898,8327],"class_list":["post-35249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-world-news","tag-accused","tag-alaska","tag-allegations","tag-anthony","tag-antony-blinken","tag-attacks","tag-beijing","tag-biden","tag-blinken","tag-chinese","tag-coercion","tag-crackdown","tag-cyber","tag-diplomat","tag-diplomats","tag-embassy","tag-foreign-minister","tag-hong-kong","tag-human-rights","tag-kong","tag-london","tag-meeting","tag-military","tag-national-security","tag-nations","tag-china","tag-presidency","tag-president","tag-president-xi","tag-security","tag-students","tag-taiwan","tag-take-that","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-us-embassy","tag-us-secretary-of-state","tag-us-secretary-of-state-anthony-blinken","tag-us-secretary-of-state-antony-blinken","tag-wang-li","tag-wang-yi","tag-washington","tag-xi","tag-xi-jinping"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52200,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35249\/revisions\/52200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}