China demands new talks with the US after Biden win
07 December, 2020
China's leading diplomat on Mon (Dec 7) called for the resumption of talks with the incoming US administration of President-elect Joe Biden, while relations between your world's two most significant economies continuing to nosedive.
Beijing and Washington possess locked horns over concerns from trade and China's man rights record to its expansionist ambitions found in the South China Sea.
But speaking throughout a video phone with the table of the US-China Business Council (USCBC) on Monday, foreign minister Wang Yi said "both sides should interact".
"We need to strive to restart the dialogue, get back on the right course, and rebuild mutual rely upon the next thing of China-US relations," he said, according to a readout of his remarks on the international ministry website.
His comments come times after Washington unveiled travel restrictions for users of the Chinese Communist Get together over man rights abuses found in the restive place of Xinjiang, as relations between your two tumble to the lowest point in decades.
More sanctions are anticipated this week, with Bloomberg reporting on the subject of Monday that the US placed to slap at least a dozen officials with asset freezes above their role in the disqualification of pro-democracy lawmakers on Hong Kong.
China's relations with US allies, especially Australia, also have plummeted in the latest weeks.
Amid an evergrowing spat between Beijing and Canberra, a senior Chinese official sparked outrage last Mon when he tweeted a staged image of an Australian soldier holding a bloody knife to an Afghan child's throat.
But China's leading diplomat seemed to strike a more conciliatory tone from his so-called "Wolf Warrior" co-workers on Monday, saying the two sides should do the job to "expand consensus" and co-operation.
"For problems that can't be immediately resolved, we have to maintain a good constructive attitude to manage the situation in order to avoid intensifying and escalating the entire situation of China-US relations," Wang said.
Biden is set to assume the presidency on Jan 20, succeeding Donald Trump, who launched a bruising trade battle against China and targeted the global ambitions of organizations including telecoms giant Huawei.
The president-elect is likely to be more measured in tone and knit again together tattered alliances on the global stage.
But he has told US media that he will preserve Donald Trump's trade battle tariffs on China for the moment when he moves into the Oval Office.
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