BEIJING: Officials and policy observers have welcomed the meetings that President Xi Jinping and senior Chinese diplomats had in Beijing with United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken, saying that the talks offered hope on reining in the two-way tension and introducing more certainty to future prospects.
Now it’s time for Washington to continue trading goodwill with Beijing, faithfully implement the consensus made between the two sides and minimize the chance of dragging the ties to another low, they said.
During President Xi’s meeting with Blinken on Monday afternoon, Xi “spoke with an overarching perspective and elaborated on the principled position on stabilizing and developing China-US ties”, said Yang Tao, director-general of the Foreign Ministry’s Department of North American and Oceanian Affairs.
The series of meetings with Blinken were “candid, in-depth and constructive”, he said, adding that the top priority now — and the most important outcome of the China trip — is for both sides to faithfully implement the consensus reached by the two heads of state at their meeting last year in Bali, Indonesia, and return to the agenda set by that meeting.
“We’re on the right trail here,” US President Joe Biden said on Monday regarding Blinken’s visit.
The latest meetings have attracted great attention from the public in both countries, analysts said. Cai Tongjuan, a researcher at Renmin University of China’s Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, said, “There are many individuals and organizations from both nations calling for securing the bilateral friendship.” Tom Watkins, president and CEO of TDW and Associates, a US-based business and education consulting company, said Xi’s meeting with Blinken “sent a clear message to the world that both sides value dialogue and cooperation over conflict”. –The Daily Mail-China Daily news exchange item
