Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi warned on Saturday against “knee-jerk” calls for the United States to distance itself from China and said that despite some positive recent signs from the White House, some US voices were undermining the relationship.
Calling for a “positive and pragmatic” policy from Washington, he told the Munich Security Conference the best outcome for both would be cooperation.
Wang Yi met US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday in what a US official described as a “positive and constructive” meeting and discussed a planned visit to Beijing in April by US President Donald Trump.
After a year of turbulence over trade and tariff policy, the United States and China have been looking to smooth relations, and Wang Yi said Beijing had been encouraged by recent remarks from the White House showing “respect for President Xi Jinping and the Chinese people”.
The United States and European countries have been increasingly concerned about their growing reliance on China for raw materials and vital parts of their manufacturing supply chains, and there have been widespread calls to reduce their dependence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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