Focus on Arts and Ecology

June 17, 2022 

China firmly opposes using competition to define its ties with the U.S., senior Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi told U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan in a nearly five-hour meeting in Luxembourg on Monday.

The meeting – which both sides called "candid, in-depth, and productive" – followed a May phone call between the two officials and an in-person meeting in Rome in mid-March.

Yang, who is a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the CPC Central Committee, said Washington has "contained and suppressed" Beijing in "an all-round way," plunging China-U.S. relations into "a very difficult situation" and severely damaging exchanges and cooperation in bilateral areas.

(Sources: China Report)