【縛雞之見】
Beijing’s comment of “constructive dialogue” means: we have a lot of disputes, yet we both decide to go on.
On the other hand, the DoS released a short message, in which nothing CCP
can promise.
“The below is attributable to Spokesperson Morgan Ortagus:
Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo met today with Chinese Communist Party
(CCP) Politburo Member Yang Jiechi in Honolulu, Hawaii to exchange views on U.S.-China relations. The Secretary stressed important American interests and the need for fully-reciprocal dealings between the two nations across
commercial, security, and diplomatic interactions. He also stressed the need for full transparency and information sharing to combat
the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and prevent future outbreaks.”
Top U.S, China diplomats hold ‘constructive’ meeting amid strains CNBC 20200618
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
met China’s top diplomat, Yang Jiechi, in Hawaii on Wednesday in what Beijing described as a “constructive dialogue,” amid a deep deterioration
of ties between strategic rivals that are the world’s two top economies.
The countries have been at loggerheads over the handling of the coronavirus pandemic and China’s move
to impose new security legislation on Hong Kong, among the latest flare-ups in years
of escalating tensions.
In the meeting, Pompeo stressed “the need for fully-reciprocal dealings between
the two nations across commercial, security, and diplomatic interactions,” U.S.
State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus said in a statement.
“He also stressed the need for full transparency and information sharing to
combat the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and prevent future outbreaks.”
Beijing said the two sides agreed to continue
engagement.
“Both sides fully articulated their countries’ respective
positions, and believe that this was a constructive
dialogue. Both sides agreed to take
action to implement the consensus reached by leaders
of both countries,” China’s Xinhua news agency said.
The meeting in Honolulu started shortly after 9
a.m. (1900 GMT) and concluded at 3:50 p.m.
(0150 GMT Thursday), a senior State Department official said.
As the meeting got under way, U.S. President Donald Trump
signed legislation calling for sanctions against those responsible for repression
of Uighur Muslims in China’s Xinjiang region.
Separately, foreign ministers of the G-7 countries, including
Pompeo, issued a statement calling on China not to follow through with the Hong
Kong legislation.
Pompeo has been forceful in his criticism of Beijing and it was his first
known contact with Yang since they discussed the coronavirus by phone on April 15.
They had not met face to face since last
year.
Tensions have risen also over China’s neighbor North Korea. The United States and China share concerns about
that country’s nuclear weapons program.
Experts say U.S.-China relations have reached their lowest point in years,
and in mid-May Trump, who has pursued a deal to end a damaging trade war he launched
with China, went so far as to suggest he could cut ties
with Beijing.
The bill Trump signed calls for sanctions on Chinese
officials responsible for oppressing Uighur Muslims, including on one of
Yang’s colleagues on China’s powerful Politburo.
Trump tempered that possibility with a signing statement saying that some
of the bill’s sanctions requirements might limit his
constitutional authority as president to conduct diplomacy so he would regard them as advisory, not mandatory.
While Trump and his administration have stepped up rhetoric against China
in the run-up to the November U.S. election, his former national security adviser,
John Bolton, said on Wednesday the president sought
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s help to win re-election during a closed-door June
2019 meeting.
Bolton’s accusations are part of a book that the U.S. government on Tuesday
sued to block him from publishing, arguing it contained classified information and
would compromise national security.
Trump hit back at Bolton, calling him “a liar” in an interview with the Wall
Street Journal. He told Fox News in a separate
interview that Bolton had broken the law by including highly classified material
in the book.
Neither side outlined an agenda for the Hawaii talks, but diplomats and other
sources have said the meeting was requested by China.
U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer also told a congressional hearing
that Chinese officials had repeatedly affirmed their commitment to buy more U.S.
goods and services under a Phase 1 trade deal signed in January and that some $10
billion in purchases had been recorded thus far.
Lighthizer also said, when asked about exports of products made by Uighurs
and other Muslim groups in camps in China, that Washington
would “strongly enforce” U.S. laws banning the import of goods made by forced labor.
Among his criticisms of China, Pompeo has said it could have prevented hundreds
of thousands of deaths from the global coronavirus pandemic by being more transparent,
and accused it of refusing to share information.
Trump has initiated a process of eliminating special U.S. treatment for Hong
Kong to punish China for curbing freedoms there, but has stopped short of immediately
ending privileges that have helped the territory remain a global financial center.
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