Top China, U.S. officials hold Malta talks ahead of possible Xi-Biden meeting
- The meeting convened after several high level officials visited Beijing in recent months and just before Wang’s meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov later this week.
- China said Vice President Han Zheng will represent China at the United Nations General Assembly this week in New York, suggesting Wang Yi and Xi Jinping will not attend.
- In readouts issued by the White House and China’s Foreign Ministry, the two-day talks in Malta were characterized as “candid, substantive and constructive.”