“The important thing to the graceful growth of China-US interplay lies in treating one another as equals,” Wang instructed Sullivan, based on state broadcaster CCTV.
“The 2 sides held candid, substantive and constructive discussions on a spread of bilateral, regional, and world points,” the White Home stated.
The statements adopted Sullivan’s second day of talks with Wang and different officers, geared 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 nations 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 instructed Sullivan the US ought to “cease arming Taiwan and help peaceable ‘reunification’ of China”, including that “Taiwan belongs to China and that ‘Taiwan independence’ is the most important threat to peace and stability within the Taiwan Strait”.
In response to 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 legit pursuits”.
However a US assertion additionally confused some areas of potential settlement, noting “shared considerations about (North Korea), Burma, and the Center East”.
