” NO COMMITMENT” ON RUSSIA SUPPORT
The two held an hour and 20 minutes of conversation on the outside of a local summit in Laos, marking their seventh meeting since Blinken visited Beijing in a sign of a strained relationship between the country’s two biggest markets.
The two did not set a time for their next meeting, the national said.
In spite of political uncertainty at home, Blinken is traveling through East Asia to reassure nations near to China of US responsibility. He traveled to Vietnam after on Saturday and was scheduled to meet with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in Japan and the Philippines in the coming weeks.
Blinken conveyed to Wang that US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party’s political member, both believed in the importance of balance in the US-China marriage, and that a rules-based get must be upheld, the official added.
Blinken also discussed the official’s warning about additional US actions if China does n’t curtail that country’s defense industry base and its support for Russia’s.
In an effort to outbid the Russian military equipment waging war on Ukraine, Washington has imposed sanctions on target, including China-based companies that sell electronics to Moscow.
” There was no responsibility by the Chinese to take action”, the official said.
Blinken even raised concerns about human rights in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Tibet with Wang, and urged Beijing to make more progress in its fight against narcotics, including morphine predecessors, coming from China.
The official doubted how successful a new agreement between Palestinian factions that was brokered by Beijing could be in resolving the terrible conflict between Fatah, the Palestinian Authority’s head of state, and Hamas, the organization that led the Gaza Strip before its attacks on Israel on October 7 sparked the current bloodshed.
The official claimed that “we’ve seen a number of alleged consolidations before that have not had fruit.”