[Epoch Times, July 27, 2021](Epoch Times reporter Xu Zhenqi comprehensive report) On Monday (July 26), after Biden took office as President of the United States, the second high-level meeting between the United States and China ended in Tianjin, and no results were announced. , And there is no sign that the US-China summit is being planned. Experts on China issues stated that they have low expectations for the two sides to find common ground and stabilize relations.
On Monday, Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, the No. 2 figure in the US State Department, met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Vice Minister Xie Shengsheng in Tianjin. Although the Tianjin talks were not as fierce as the Alaska talks, the US and China did not really negotiate anything, but put forward their respective lists.
The U.S.-China talks did not really negotiate anything but made lists
Sherman raised concerns about human rights and pressured Beijing on the CCP’s violation of rules-based international order, including Beijing’s suppression of Hong Kong’s democracy, ongoing genocide in Xinjiang, abuses in Tibet, and restrictions on press freedom.
She also talked about the U.S. concerns about Beijing’s behavior in cyberspace, across the Taiwan Strait, and the East China Sea and the South China Sea.
In an interview with the Associated Press, Sherman said that the United States really hopes that China understands that human rights are not just an internal affair, but a global commitment they made when they signed the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
A senior US government official told reporters after the meeting: “I think it is wrong to describe the United States as seeking or soliciting Chinese cooperation in some way.” He was referring to global issues such as climate change, Iran, Afghanistan, and North Korea.
Another U.S. government official said when talking about bridging differences: “It will be up to China to decide whether they are ready… to take the next step.”
Wang Yi said in a statement: “In respect of international rules, the United States must rethink” and demanded that the United States remove all unilateral sanctions and tariffs on China.
Xie Feng said that China has also proposed two lists to the United States, one is the “error correction list” and the other is a list of key cases of concern to China. He said that the former requires the United States to lift visa restrictions on Chinese students and CCP members, as well as sanctions on Chinese officials and institutions.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Communist Party of China also stated that Wang Yi also raised Xinjiang-related, Tibet-related, and Hong Kong-related issues, which were never human rights and democracy issues.
The White House: The talks did not mention Xi’s visit
On Monday, White House spokesman Jen Psaki was asked at a regular press conference whether the leaders of the two countries might hold some kind of talks after the talks between the United States and China in Tianjin. He said that there was no discussion in the talks. The question of the meeting between Biden and Xi Jinping.
She said: “President (Biden) continues to have confidence in face-to-face diplomacy. This is what he has been advocating for a long time. We expect that there will be some opportunities for contact at some point. But this topic is not covered in these meetings, which is also Not the purpose of these meetings.”
Before the talks, outsiders expected that the Tianjin talks might pave the way for a face-to-face meeting between Biden and Xi Jinping in Rome in October this year.
U.S.-China diplomacy is in a rigid stage
Reuters reported that some analysts said that the diplomatic ossification between the United States and China has bleak prospects for improving relations.
Scott Kennedy, an expert on China at the Washington’s Center for Strategic and International Studies, told Reuters that neither party has seen the benefits of enhanced cooperation.
He said: “For any party, there is no easy-to-achieve cooperation goal. Any cooperation gesture will actually bring huge domestic and strategic costs.”
“I think we should have very low expectations for the two sides to find common ground and stabilize the relationship.” Kennedy said.
Eric Sayers, a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, said: “The situation shown in Tianjin (the talks) is that there is still a lot of difference in how the two sides view the value and role of diplomatic contacts. Great disagreement.”
Bonnie Glaser, an Asian expert at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, said it is important for the two sides to maintain some form of contact. At the same time, the Tianjin talks did not seem to have reached an agreement on a follow-up meeting or a continuous dialogue mechanism.
She added that if the United States and China want each other to make concessions first, they may be disappointed.
The US-China meeting in Tianjin is the second face-to-face meeting between US and Chinese high-level diplomats since US President Biden took office in January this year. Four months ago, when US Secretary of State Blincoln and National Security Adviser Sullivan, the top diplomat and Politburo member Yang Jiechi and Foreign Minister Wang Yi held talks in Anchorage, Alaska, there was a fierce exchange of words.
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