Top U.S., Chinese diplomats meet at ASEAN talks as tensions risk flaring
The Hindu
The Jakarta talks come nearly a month after Blinken travelled to Beijing, the first visit by a U.S. secretary of state in nearly five years, and met President Xi Jinping as well as Wang and Foreign Minister Qin Gang.
The top U.S. and Chinese diplomats met Thursday for the second time in as many months, seeking to manage tensions that risk flaring anew over alleged Chinese hacking.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Wang Yi, China's top foreign policy official, saw each other on the sidelines of Association of Southeast Asian Nations talks in the Indonesian capital.
"Director, good to see you," Blinken told Wang with a smile as they shook hands before U.S. and Chinese flags at a Jakarta hotel.
The two then went into talks with their aides and made no comments to assembled reporters.
The meeting went ahead despite Microsoft saying two days ago that Chinese hackers had breached U.S. government email accounts, including those of the State Department.
The Jakarta talks come nearly a month after Blinken travelled to Beijing, the first visit by a U.S. secretary of state in nearly five years, and met President Xi Jinping as well as Wang and Foreign Minister Qin Gang.
Wang, who leads the foreign affairs commission of the Chinese Communist Party's Central Committee, is representing China at the Jakarta talks among foreign ministers because Qin is ill, the foreign ministry in Beijing said.
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