China’s Wang Yi holds phone call with Rubio days before Xi visits US
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held a phone call with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday, just a week ahead of President Xi Jinping’s planned trip to the United States. Chinese state news agency Xinhua said in a brief report that the two diplomats held an in-depth discussion on “high-level exchanges” between the two countries. The call is expected to have locked down final details of…
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi engaged in a phone conversation with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday, just a week prior to President Xi Jinping's scheduled visit to the United States. According to Xinhua, the state-run Chinese news agency, the two diplomats held an extensive discussion on the "high-level exchanges" between China and the US.
The call is anticipated to finalize the specifics of Xi's highly anticipated visit and potential summit with US President Donald Trump. This is not the first such call; Wang and Rubio also spoke roughly two weeks before Trump's state visit to China earlier this year. As Xi's trip draws near, with his state visit to America set for September 24, marking his first such visit since 2015, both Beijing and Washington are in a race to finalize possible outcomes.
The South China Morning Post had previously reported that one of the key deliverables could be an extension of the trade deal signed in South Korea last year during Xi and Trump's meeting at an Asia-Pacific summit, though Washington is not expected to push for a major breakthrough.
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