The Executive Vice President of Foreign Affairs of China, Ma Zhaoxu, attends the Meeting of Foreign Ministers of the G20 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on February 21, 2024.
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The United States and China agreed to keep the lines of communication open, after a call to the senior officials on Thursday, noting that the high -level commitment continued while both parties work towards a broader agreement.
The Chinese Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ma Zhaoxu, and the Undersecretary of State of the United States, Christopher Landau, exchanged points of view on a variety of key issues that gave the call, both parties said in closely aligned statements published the witches of the subject. Specifying their welding lovers.
While the call may not indicate an advance in ongoing commercial conversations, it is a “positive signal” that Beijing now knows who to talk to on the side of the United States, said Dan Wang, director of China in the political risks consulting group, adding that talk ”
After the high -level conversations in Geneva, Switzerland, earlier this month, both parties issued a rare joint statement to temporarily reduce most tariffs on the goods of the other, while working a broader agreement.
The last time both parties issued a joint statement was in November 2023, which focused on climatic cooperation.
The call between MA and Landau was the second call at a diplomatic level among the second mandate of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, Donald Trump, said Xinbo Wu, director of the American Studies Center of the University of Fudan. China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi had spoken with the United States Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, in January after Trump returned to the office.
Thursday’s call points out that both parties are “reconnecting” at the diplomatic level and may be preparing for the next conversations about Beijing’s cooperation in curbing fentanyl flows, Wu said.
Earlier this week, Ma had with the new United States ambassador to China, David Perdue, noting that Beijing hopes to align more closely with the United States in the commercial discussion on -off, according to a reading of the meeting.
At that meeting, Peredue said he had shared Trump’s priorities for bilateral relations, according to a position in his X account. “I hope to work with the ministry and the counterparts to achieve concrete results for the American people,” he said in the publication.
Trump has made a priority to stop the flow of China’s fentanyl precursors, which are used to do the deadly opioid. He has also urged Beijing to open his markets to the US.
The arrival of Perdue in Beijing occurred when a commercial war between the two largest economies in the world had fueled the fears of a broader “decoupling”.
The former user User David Perdue observes while attending his swear ceremony to be the new United States ambassador to China, held by the president of the United States, Donald Trump, in the White House in Washington, DC, USA UU., May 7, 2025.
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Chinese exhibitors seek to diversify away from the US market, according to industry surveys and economists, without flinching through the temporary tariff truce, while US companies accelerate to move away from China’s production.
In a separate meeting with JPMorgan Chase Jamie Dimon on Thursday, the Chinese vice president, He Lifeng, said that negotiations with the United States on economic and commercial problems have “progressed substantial”, emphasizing Beijing’s position or with the intention of promoting.
Yuyuuantian, a social media account affiliated with CCTV of Chinese state media, said Dimon said in meetings with Chinese officials that the United States government does not want to decoup down with China.
Despite the recently unincapable after the conversations of Geneva, Beijing and Washington they have continued to exchanged spikes.
Chinese authorities have rejected a decision of the United States that warned companies that do not use artificial intelligence chips made, partly those provided by Huawei Technologies.
The last dispute on the use of Chinese semiconductors chips stressed the “inevitable shock” between the two countries in certain strategic sectors, said the Nomura analysts in a note on Friday.
“Strategic decoupling remains inevitable,” analysts said, hoping that the Trump administration use more specific sectoral tariffs and non -tariff measures aimed at containing China’s access to advanced technology. In response, China could harden its export controls in rare earths to the United States, Nomura said.
The Ministry of Commerce of China earlier this week described the “Unilateral Bullying” movement and blamed the United States for undermining commercial conversations, promising to take resolved measures to protect their rights and interests.
Correction: This story has been updated to reflect that the call was with the Secretary of State of the United States Christopher Landau.
