The Foreign Ministry of China has announced that Wang will attend the Munich conference, but has not mentioned a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Blinken. Blinken’s focus at the conference will be on Ukraine, the Middle East, and “transatlantic security.” The Blinken-Wang meeting will likely include planning for a phone call between President Biden and Chinese President Xi in the coming months. This meeting underlines the efforts of Washington and Beijing to mitigate the tension that has troubled U.S.-China relations over the past year, exacerbated by issues such as Chinese intimidation towards Taiwan, rising tensions in the South China Sea, Xi’s partnership with Putin, and the discovery of a Chinese spy balloon over the U.S. last year. The White House views its nine months of concentrated engagement with Beijing as a diplomatic success, leading to the creation of the U.S.-China Counternarcotics Working Group, resumption of bilateral military-to-military contacts, and an agreement to discuss safe development of artificial intelligence.
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