{"id":29660,"date":"2023-01-17T09:25:06","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T09:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=29660"},"modified":"2023-01-17T09:25:11","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T09:25:11","slug":"chinese-foreign-ministry-welcomes-visit-by-u-s-secretary-blinken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=29660","title":{"rendered":"Chinese foreign ministry welcomes visit by U.S. Secretary Blinken"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reuters:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BEIJING, Jan 17  &#8211; China welcomes a visit by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to the country, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman said at a regular news briefing on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;China welcomes Secretary of State Blinken&#8217;s visit to China. Both China and the United States are in communication now over the specific arrangements,&#8221; Wang Wenbin said, responding to a question on a U.S. media report that Blinken is visiting China on Feb. 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;(China) also hopes the United States will adopt a correct view of China, uphold dialogue rather than confrontation, win-win rather than zero-sum (thinking),&#8221; Wang added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/01\/16\/blinken-china-diplomatic-trip-00078036\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Politico reported<\/a> that Blinken will meet in Beijing with his counterpart, Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang, on Feb. 5-6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blinken&#8217;s February visit to China would be the first by a secretary of state since October 2018 when Mike Pompeo, under the Trump administration, met then-foreign minister Wang Yi in Beijing, with the two dignitaries exchanging pointed remarks amid an escalating trade war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters: BEIJING, Jan 17 &#8211; China welcomes a visit by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to the country, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman said at a regular news briefing on Tuesday. &#8220;China welcomes Secretary of State Blinken&#8217;s visit to China. Both China and the United States are in communication now over the specific arrangements,&#8221; Wang Wenbin said, responding to a question on a U.S. media report that Blinken is visiting China on Feb. 5. &#8220;(China) also hopes the United States will adopt a correct view of China, uphold dialogue rather than confrontation, win-win rather than zero-sum (thinking),&#8221; Wang added&#8230;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29661,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29662,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29660\/revisions\/29662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}