Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Friday as he wrapped up a three-day visit to China dominated by contentious issues and warnings from his hosts of another “downward spiral” in relations. The two met Friday afternoon local time at the Great Hall of the People, an ornate and cavernous building next to Tiananmen Square. Blinken told Xi that President Joe Biden had sent him to China to “seek to deepen areas of cooperation as well as to responsibly manage the differences that we have.” Xi noted that this year is the 45th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the United States and China, and said the two countries “should be partners rather than adversaries.”
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00:00 Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on
00:11 Friday as he wrapped up a three-day visit to China, dominated by contentious issues
00:15 and warnings from his hosts of another downward spiral in relations.
00:21 The two met Friday afternoon local time at the Great Hall of the People, an ornate and
00:25 cavernous building next to Tiananmen Square.
00:29 Blinken told Xi that President Joe Biden had sent him to China to seek to deepen areas
00:34 of cooperation as well as to responsibly manage the differences that we have.
00:39 Xi noted that this year is the 45th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations
00:44 between the US and China and said the two countries should be partners rather than adversaries.
00:50 The world is big enough to accommodate the simultaneous development and prosperity of
00:54 both China and the US, he said, according to a Chinese foreign ministry readout, adding
00:58 that US-China relations will stabilise once the US takes a positive and constructive view
01:03 of China's development.
01:05 The visit is Blinken's second in less than a year as the two superpowers work to stabilise
01:09 ties with renewed talks despite a growing list of geopolitical differences.
01:14 A primary goal of Blinken's visit to China was to warn about its support for Russia's
01:18 war against Ukraine, which began weeks after Moscow and Beijing declared a no-limits partnership
01:23 in 2022.
01:25 Though China does not appear to be supplying Russia with lethal assistance, Blinken said
01:29 last week that it was providing machine tools, semiconductors and other dual-use items that
01:34 make it the primary contributor to Russia's defence industrial base.
01:39 Other issues on the agenda included Chinese economic and trade practices, the US views
01:44 as unfair, Chinese aggression in the South China Sea, stability in the Taiwan Strait,
01:48 North Korea's nuclear and missile programmes and the Israel-Hamas war.
01:52 Earlier Friday, Blinken met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse,
01:58 where foreign dignitaries are often received.
02:01 Blinken arrived in China on Wednesday, visiting Shanghai shortly before Biden signed the $95
02:05 billion foreign aid package that has several elements likely to anger Beijing, including
02:10 $8 billion to counter China's growing aggressiveness towards Taiwan and in the South China Sea.
02:15 It also seeks to force TikTok's China-based parent company to sell the social media platform.
02:21 China and the US are the major players in the Indo-Pacific.
02:23 Washington has become increasingly alarmed by Beijing's growing aggressiveness in recent
02:27 years towards Taiwan and its smaller Southeast Asian neighbours, with which it has significant
02:32 territorial and maritime disputes in the South China Sea.
02:36 China has railed against US assistance to Taiwan and immediately condemned the aid as
02:39 a dangerous provocation.
02:41 It also strongly opposes efforts to force TikTok's sale.
02:44 The US has also condemned the US' efforts to force TikTok's sale of US-made TikTok videos.
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