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Top US and China Officials to Meet This Week: SCMP


The US Senate began debate on Tuesday on a new defence spending bill that targets China and Russia, plus ramping up assistance to Taiwan and Ukraine.
The Taiwan Policy Act passed by the US Senate foreign relations panel includes billions of dollars in military financing for Taiwan and programmes to fast-track weapons sales and increase military coordination. Reuters file photo.

 

Top Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi will hold talks with US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan in Switzerland this week, the South China Morning Post reported, citing sources familiar with details of the meeting.

The talks between the pair will most likely take place on Wednesday, the story said. The nations aim to rebuild communication channels and implement a consensus reached between presidents Xi Jinping and Joe Biden in their phone call less than a month ago, one of the sources said, according to the story. A second source said Yang would depart China today, and one item on the agenda would be the possibility of a summit between Xi and Biden, the report added. Full story: South China Morning Post.

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Kevin Hamlin

Kevin Hamlin is a financial journalist with extensive experience covering Asia. Before joining Asia Financial, Kevin worked for Bloomberg News, spending 12 years as Senior China Economy Reporter in Beijing. Prior to that, he was Asia Bureau Chief of Institutional Investor for ten years.