Top US, Chinese Diplomats Meet as Tensions Roil Middle East
- Topics included Russia, Taiwan Strait, State Department says
- Blinken, Wang encounter takes place weeks before US election
Antony Blinken and Wang Yi before a meeting in New York on Sept. 27.
Photographer: Heather Khalifa/AFP/Getty Images
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in New York for more than an hour on Friday, in what was one of their last face-to-face encounters before the US presidential election that will shape the course of US-China relations for the next four years.
Blinken, according to a State Department account of the exchange, expressed “continued concern” over China’s support of Russia in its invasion of Ukraine, and its activities in the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea.