“The important thing to the sleek growth of China-US interplay lies in treating one another as equals,” Wang informed Sullivan, in response to state broadcaster CCTV.
“The 2 sides held candid, substantive and constructive discussions on a spread of bilateral, regional, and international points,” the White Home stated.
The statements adopted Sullivan’s second day of talks with Wang and different officers, aimed toward calming tensions between the 2 superpowers forward of the Nov 5 US election.
Conferences between the 2 sides will final till Thursday and are anticipated to cowl a spread of areas the place the 2 international locations are at odds, together with commerce, the Center East, the warfare in Ukraine and Chinese language territorial claims from Taiwan to the South China Sea.
Wang informed Sullivan the US ought to “cease arming Taiwan and assist peaceable ‘reunification’ of China”, including that “Taiwan belongs to China and that ‘Taiwan independence’ is the largest danger to peace and stability within the Taiwan Strait”.
In line with the Chinese language readout, Wang additionally expressed Beijing’s disapproval of US tariffs on a spread of manufactured items and export controls focusing on Chinese language chip makers, saying Washington ought to “cease jeopardising China’s official pursuits”.
However a US assertion additionally careworn some areas of potential settlement, noting “shared considerations about (North Korea), Burma, and the Center East”.
