Top Chinese, American Diplomats To Meet In Zurich Over Taiwan Airspace Row
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Tensions with China are at their worst in 40 years, Taiwan's defence minister Chiu Kuo-cheng has said, warning of the risk of an accidental strike between the two.
Top officials from China and the US are due to hold talks in Switzerland amid heightened tensions over the Chinese army conducting a record number of air drills close to Taiwan, a self-ruled island which Beijing views as a breakaway province.
Tensions with China are at their worst in 40 years, Taiwan's defence minister Chiu Kuo-cheng has said, warning of the risk of an accidental strike between the two.
Yang Jiechi, a member of the Political bureau of the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC), will meet with US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan in Zurich, Switzerland, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying announced on Wednesday.
Yang, also director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the CPC, will meet with Sullivan "according to the consensus reached by Chinese and US heads-of-state on September 10 in their phone call and as agreed upon by China and the United States," Hua said.
