The US Secretary of State met with a senior Chinese government official in Washington

, the US State Department announced in a statement that Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, in a conversation with Liu Jianchao, a senior Chinese government official, expressed his concerns about human rights issues in Beijing and the Taiwan issue.

This statement states that these two government officials met in Washington and they emphasized the need to maintain peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait.

At the same time, Taiwan’s presidential and parliamentary elections are being held despite growing pressure from China. Currently, one of the biggest challenges facing US-China relations is the issue of Taiwan and the island’s independence.

China always claims that Taiwan should be under the sovereignty of this country and since the last three years, by carrying out military operations in The proximity of this island has tried to subjugate Taiwan, but the government of Taiwan has always declared that it has independent sovereignty and the people of this country should decide their own destiny.

Meanwhile, Beijing Washington, as Taiwan’s largest arms supplier, has repeatedly asked Washington to refrain from selling and sending weapons to the island in order to reduce Fimabin tensions.

This meeting is considered important because the senior officials of the two countries have recently held regular talks to maintain and keep open the lines of communication between the two countries. One of the most important of these meetings is the meeting between the presidents of the two countries in November in San Francisco during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit.

According to the statement of the US State Department, during this meeting, Blinken stressed the importance of solving the case of American citizens arrested in China and the issue of lifting the bans in China. and expressed his concern about the human rights situation in this country.

Also emphasizing the importance of maintaining peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait and in the sea South China, the subject of North Korea, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the situation in the Red Sea and the Middle East, and Israel’s war with Gaza were other topics of this conversation.

Mr. Liu also met and chatted with John Feiner, the deputy national security adviser of the White House on Wednesday, and on Thursday, US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo had a telephone conversation with her Chinese counterpart, Wang Wentao.

The Biden administration in 2022 will impose a broad set of export restrictions aimed at slowing China’s progress. In the technology department, he announced and claimed that this decision was taken due to national security concerns.

Among these measures was a ban on the sale to China of certain chips that are made anywhere in the world with American equipment, as well as a ban on the export of chips used in supercomputers and artificial intelligence technology.

Mao Ning, the spokesperson of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, emphasized in a statement that the restrictions imposed by the United States on the export of computer chips to China go beyond the concept of national security. and destroys supply chains.

Meanwhile, the US Department of Commerce has announced that In order to “reduce the threat to national security”, Beijing will re-examine and evaluate the chip supply chain this month.

A few days ago, the Pentagon announced that following the previous agreement between the United States and China to resume military relations, the officials of the two countries completed their two-day military negotiations in Washington.

Pentagon added in a statement: In the 17th round of military negotiations between the two countries, Michael Chase, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for China, Taiwan and Mongolia, met with General Song Yanchao, Deputy Director of the Office of China’s Central Military Commission for International Military Cooperation.

This statement states: The two sides discussed defense relations between them and Chase stressed the importance of keeping military lines of communication open in order to prevent He emphasized the transformation of competition between the two countries into conflict.

These negotiations were held while the two countries discussed various strategic issues, such as China’s sovereignty claim over Taiwan and Beijing’s opposition to the island’s independence, as well as China’s sovereignty claims in the South China Sea, with They are in tension with each other. In February of last year, the flight of a Chinese spy balloon over American soil and the shooting down of this balloon by the United States increased the tension between the two countries, but with the consultation of various officials of both countries and the meeting of the presidents of the two sides on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in San Francisco. In November, the tension between them decreased a little.. /p>

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