{"id":58455,"date":"2023-09-18T02:31:28","date_gmt":"2023-09-17T17:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/17\/china-united-states-jake-sullivan-wang-yi-meeting-malta"},"modified":"2023-09-18T02:31:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-17T17:31:28","slug":"top-us-and-chinese-diplomats-meet-in-malta-to-smooth-strained-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58455","title":{"rendered":"Top US and Chinese diplomats meet in Malta to smooth strained relations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Candid, substantive and constructive\u2019 talks were held as a possible prelude to a Joe Biden-Xi Jinping meeting in November<\/p>\n<p>Top US and Chinese diplomats met in Malta over the weekend as the world\u2019s two largest economies attempted to smooth strained relations and clear a path for their respective presidents \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/joebiden\">Joe Biden<\/a> and Xi Jinping \u2013 to meet in November.<\/p>\n<p>According to both Beijing and Washington, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan met multiple times with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/china\">China<\/a>\u2019s foreign minister, Wang Yi, in Malta, where \u2013 according to separate statements \u2013 \u201ccandid, substantive and constructive\u201d talks were held.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/17\/china-united-states-jake-sullivan-wang-yi-meeting-malta\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Candid, substantive and constructive\u2019 talks were held as a possible prelude to a Joe Biden-Xi Jinping meeting in NovemberTop US and Chinese diplomats met in Malta over the weekend as the world\u2019s two largest economies attempted to smooth strained relat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3949,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,2856,45,47,631],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-jake-sullivan","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-us-politics"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3949"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58455"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58479,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58455\/revisions\/58479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}