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The Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, has said China is willing to cooperate with the US as both sides manage their differences and work together to respond to global challenges, raising hopes of a meeting between Xi and the US president, Joe Biden, this year.
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Xi’s call for more stable bilateral ties, which he says should be built on the principles of “mutual respect, peaceful co-existence and win-win cooperation”, comes as the foreign minister, Wang Yi, prepares to visit Washington this week.
The trip, scheduled to take place from Thursday to Saturday, will be the highest-level in-person engagement between the countries before an expected meeting between Biden and Xi in San Francisco at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit next month.
China’s state-controlled Global Times wrote in a commentary: “Chinese observers believe the visit [by Wang] will pave the way for a possible meeting between the heads of the two states but added that Washington needs to make concrete efforts to address Beijing’s concerns and show its sincerity.”
Tensions between the countries have risen in recent years, and attempts to repair ties were dashed by a spying row in January, when US authorities shot down a balloon it claimed was Chinese spycraft in US airspace.
Dalia Dassa Kaye, a senior fellow at the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations, said: “That might be a basis for some common ground, even if China likely sees some benefits to the hit the United States is taking in the region among its Arab partners.”
Israel’s bombing and siege of Gaza in response to Hamas attacks have stirred anger in Muslim-majority countries, and Washington fears an imminent ground offensive could spark a wider conflict.
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