The common interests between China and the United States far outweigh their differences, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi told U. S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Friday in their first face-to-face meeting since Tillerson took up his job.
BEIJING: The common interests between China and the United States far outweigh their differences, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi told U. S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Friday in their first face-to-face meeting since Tillerson took up his job.
U. S. President Donald Trump angered Beijing in December by talking to the president of Taiwan and saying the United States did not have to stick to the “one China” policy, under which Washington acknowledges the Chinese position that there is only one China and Taiwan is part of it.
In a phone call with Chinese leader Xi Jinping last week, Trump changed tack and agreed to honour the “one China” policy, a major diplomatic boost for Beijing, which brooks no criticism of its claim to self-ruled Taiwan.
However, several areas of disagreement between the two countries, such as currency, trade, the South China Sea and North Korea, were not mentioned in public statements on the telephone conversation.
