Reuters-Top US diplomat Blinken meets Chinas VP Han at UN amid strained ties
September 18, 2023 2 min 357 words
这篇报道涉及到美国国务卿安东尼·布林肯与中国副主席韩正在联合国大会期间的会晤，这在当前紧张的中美关系下显得尤为重要。两国政府均表示布林肯与中国外交部长王毅在马耳他进行的会谈是“坦诚、实质性和建设性”的对话，这是为了稳定两国关系而进行的高层会谈之一。 美国与中国之间的高级官员之间的会晤是为了为拟定美国总统乔·拜登与中国国家主席习近平于今年晚些时候会面的基础。布林肯在会晤开始时表示：“全球期望我们负责任地管理我们的关系，美国承诺要做到这一点。”他还强调了面对面的外交是处理分歧和探讨合作领域的最佳方式。 这篇报道提到了一些关键问题，例如美国军队击落中国监视气球事件引发的紧张局势，以及拜登对习近平未出席印度二十国集团峰会表示失望的情况。双方下次可能会进行会谈的机会是明年11月的亚太经济合作组织峰会，美国助手们已经数月来一直希望在那里举行这样的会晤。 总的来说，这篇报道凸显了中美关系的复杂性和紧张性。两国之间的外交努力和高级官员的会晤是为了维持稳定的双边关系，但仍然存在许多挑战和不确定性。中美关系对全球稳定和繁荣至关重要，因此任何进展都值得密切关注。希望未来会有更多的合作和建设性的对话，以解决共同面临的问题。
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Chinese Vice President Han Zheng on Monday on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly as the world's two largest economies hold a series of meetings to stabilize their strained relationship.
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Malta for 12 hours last weekend, in what both sides have described as "candid, substantive and constructive" talks.
The meeting between Blinken and Han was the latest in a series of high-level talks between U.S. and Chinese officials that could lay the groundwork for a meeting between President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping later this year.
"The world expects us to responsibly manage our relationship," Blinken said in brief remarks at the beginning of his meeting with Han. "The United States is committed to doing just that," he added.
"From the perspective of the United States, face to face diplomacy is the best way to deal with areas where we disagree, and also the best way to explore areas of cooperation between us," Blinken said.
Blinken, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Biden climate envoy John Kerry have traveled to China this year to thaw relations and ensure continued communication between the two countries amid tensions that flared after the U.S. military shot down a Chinese surveillance balloon that traveled over the United States.
Biden this month expressed disappointment that Xi had skipped a summit of Group of 20 leaders in India, but said he would "get to see him." The next likely opportunity for Biden to hold talks with Xi is an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco in November, where U.S. aides for months have hoped to stage such a meeting.
Neither Blinken nor Han in their remarks explicitly mentioned whether such a meeting will materialize.
"Currently, China-U.S. relations face many difficulties and challenges," Han told Blinken, noting that China hoped the U.S. would make efforts to implement the consensus reached by the two countries' leaders and promote the stable development of relations.
"The world needs stable and healthy China-U.S. relations,” Han said.