Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, is scheduled to visit Vientiane on Saturday night for talks with Asian foreign officials.
Blinken has made Washington’s relationships in Asia a leading foreign policy goal, with the aim of “advancing a free and open” Indo-Pacific – a veiled manner of criticising China and its interests.
However, Blinken cut his travel to Asia by a day to be current for Biden’s and Netanyahu’s White House meeting on Thursday.
Wang and Blinken will join in Laos, a spokesperson for Beijing’s foreign government said, to “exchange views on issues of popular problem”.
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Wang met with ASEAN international ministers on Friday and praised Beijing’s strengthening economic ties with the territory.
For the typical mutual handshake, Wang stood next to Myanmar’s official Aung Kyaw Moe, everlasting director to the international affairs ministry.
Myanmar’s coup has been barred from high-level meetings by the ASEAN union due to its coup and crackdown on dissent in the country, which have caused the country’s turmoil in 2021.
Lavrov also spoke with ASEAN rivals in Vientiane, but he declined to speak with reporters there.
After the three-day meet, ASEAN ministers are expected to release a joint communiqué.
According to a political cause, the joint communiqué is being delayed because there is n’t consensus on how to phrase the sections on the Myanmar conflict and problems in the South China Sea.
Beijing nearly fully asserts that the canal, through which trillions of dollars of industry pass periodically, is unconstitutional despite a global court ruling that its claim has no legal basis.
Some Southeast Asian nations have competing says.