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Top U.S. and Chinese foreign policy officials will meet in Anchorage, Alaska on Thursday and Friday of next week to discuss a range of issues affecting U.S.-China relations, a senior Biden administration official told the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday.
The Anchorage meeting will reportedly take place with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and President Joe Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan meeting with Yang Jiechi, a member of the Politburo of the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi. The meeting will be the first formal sit-down between Biden administration officials and Chinese officials since Biden took office.
China has been seeking a meeting with the U.S. since December.
“The goal will be to compare notes on what each of our hopes and plans are for domestic politics, what our goals are internationally, regionally and globally,” the official told the Wall Street Journal.
The U.S. and Chinese officials will reportedly discuss the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change, as well as China’s legislative takeover of Hong Kong last Summer and its increasing pressure on Taiwan. The meeting will also reportedly address China’s unofficial economic embargoes against Australia.
Biden is also set to represent the U.S. in a virtual meeting with Australia, India and Japan this Friday in a meeting of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue countries, known as “The Quad.”
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