Foreign Minister Wang Yi held a phone call with Secretary Tony Blinken on Jan. 27, in which he challenged the Administration to live up to the words of President Joe Biden in his Nov. 16, 2021 video conference with President Xi Jinping.
Although the State Department readout said practically nothing other than that Blinken had warned Russia not to invade Ukraine, the Foreign Ministry readout was substantial in warning the U.S. that it was continuing to destroy relations with China, despite Biden’s stated policies. “Wang Yi said that the most important task for China and the United States at present is to implement the important consensus reached by President Xi Jinping and President Biden through the video conference last November,” the readout says, and that President Xi enunciated the “three principles of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and win-win cooperation.” President Biden, the report states, “responded positively to this, saying that the United States does not seek a ‘new Cold War,’ does not seek to change China’s system, does not seek to oppose China by strengthening alliances, does not support ‘Taiwan independence,’ and has no intention of conflict with China.” This, it adds, was “a different positive message from the previous administration.”
