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WORLD NEWS Wednesday 28 august 2024

A top White House official says U.S. and China are working to

avoid conflict at talks in Beijing

By KEN MORITSUGU are expected, though Sul-
Associated Press livan’s meetings could lay
BEIJING (AP) — The United the groundwork for a pos-
States and China are work- sible final summit with Chi-
ing to ensure the competi- nese leader Xi Jinping be-
tion between them does fore Biden steps down in
not veer into conflict, a top January.
White House official said Wang, the director of the
Tuesday as the two sides Communist Party’s Central
started talks on a relation- Foreign Affairs Commis-
ship that has been severely sion Office, noted that the
tested during President Joe China-U.S. relationship has
Biden’s term in office. gone through twists and
Jake Sullivan, the U.S. na- turns in the past few years.
tional security adviser, is “The key,” he said, “is to
meeting over two days with keep to the overall direc-
Wang Yi, a senior foreign tion of mutual respect,
policy official for Chinese peaceful co-existence,
leader Xi Jinping, in a sce- and win-win cooperation.”
nic lake area on the north- According to Da Wei, a
ern outskirts of Beijing. U.S. and international rela-
“President Biden has been tions expert at Tsinghua Uni-
very clear in his conversa- versity in Beijing, it’s impor-
tions with President Xi that Wang Yi, right, the director of the Communist Party’s Central Foreign Affairs Commission Office tant for the two countries
he is committed to manag- shakes hands with White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan, left, at Yanqi lake in Beijing, to avoid any crisis in the
ing this important relation- Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024. remaining months of the
Associated Press
ship responsibly,” Sullivan Biden administration, as it
told Wang before the talks lasts through Thursday, is tionship that broke down nursed back over several could set the tone for U.S.-
got underway. limited to try to maintain for the better part of a year months. China ties under the next
The goal of his visit, which communication in a rela- in 2022-23 and was only No major announcements one.q