China Lays Out Rules for Managing US Engagement in Asia Pacific

  • Chinese Foreign Minster says he gave US counterpart list
  • World’s two largest economies increasingly clashing in region

Wang Yi talks to Antony Blinken before a meeting in Nusa Dua in Bali, on July 9. 

Photographer: Stefan Reyndolds/AFP/Getty Images

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China has handed the US a blueprint for their co-existence in Asia Pacific, as the world’s two largest economies continue to clash in the region on security issues.

Chinese Foreign Minster Wang Yi said he’d made the proposal to his US counterpart Antony Blinken during their five-hour meeting in Bali over the weekend. Wang expanded on its details while addressing the secretariat of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Jakarta on Monday.