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for you: It has been confirmed that Xi Jinping of China, the president of China, will meet with top US diplomat Anthony Blinkin, who on a visit to China right now the important thing about this is that he was expected to to meet with obviously high-level officials, but it wasn't clear at one point if he was going to meet with the president, so it's now been confirmed that China's Xi Jinping will meet with Blinkin uh on Friday today during that meeting. Well, Anti Blinkin has already been holding talks in Beijing with a Chinese foreigner.

Minister Wang Yi Mr. Wang said the relationship between the United States and China had begun to stabilize in recent months, but negative factors were increasing. He said the choice was between international cooperation or rivalry and confrontation that could even lead to conflict. Mr. Blinkin said it was important to discuss differences to Avoid miscalculations China from Beijing Here is our China correspondent Steven McDonald, the visiting US Secretary of State said this relationship between Beijing and Washington is the most important in the world and Wangi told his counterpart that everywhere in the world they are waiting for answers. from the two of them in terms of what they come up with to where they can cooperate, I don't think many people would disagree with those two politicians on both fronts and Anthony Blinkin spoke today about the areas in which they are cooperating, I mean communication between military and crack down on illegal narcotics trafficking in AI and yet he said there are significant areas of disagreement where they need to talk quite frankly with each other to avoid miscalculations and what that miscalculation might look like. according to Wang Ye, it could be deadly because they can choose cooperation or they can choose to further increase tensions in the relationship which could lead to conflict and what he talks about there is like accidental conflict.

Imagine the South China Sea or the Taiwan Strait, where they start shooting at each other and that would be absolutely terrible for everyone if this kind of thing happened and that's why you're having these discussions right now in Beijing. When these meetings are held, cameras are allowed in for the first few minutes and what they say at the beginning before they close the doors and the reporters leave is really deliberate, they want everyone to get that message and Wangi and that meeting today with Anthony Blinkin said that the relationship between China and the United States had been good. described it as the great ship of the China-US relationship had passed through turbulent waters, but had gradually been steered towards Karma, so he was quite optimistic in that sense and yet he also said in these same comments to the principle that and I will read it out loud so you can get an idea of ​​the language.

China's legitimate right to development has been unjustifiably suppressed by people seeking to sabotage this relationship. He also warned Anthony Blinkin that the United States should not intervene in China's internal affairs, suppress China's development or trample on China's red lines involving its sovereignty, security and development interests - very tough talk, but that's what what we expected from both governments. Peter Grecia is the director of the Manchester Chinese Institute, he explained the significance of Lincoln's visit to China, I think. It's very important, I think the name of the game in this journey is managing the competition. I think these binaries of cooperation versus conflict are a little dangerous because they're part of finger pointing.

Instead, what the two sides should focus on is the process of talking to each other, managing expectations, and providing the kind of avenues of communication that will prevent any future conflict, but it is very clear that the list of challenging issues that remain separating the United States and China and possibly with Ukraine and some of the recent developments regarding Taiwan's defense funding. The problems are also getting bigger, so among those areas of friction where do you expect there to be? some progress or do you think that is actually not likely on this visit, probably the only area of ​​agreement, although whether there can be real substantial success or not is in the desire for greater exchange between people.

Right now we have a tremendous asymmetry between the number of Chinese students in the US and in Europe and the UK, on ​​the one hand, versus the number of Western students in China, the number of American students in China is extremely small, even smaller for the UK um and there is an agreement that more American, British and European students in China would be good for everyone um it will increase mutual understanding uh it's not a panacea for the relationship, but at least it's something where both parties can agree. They could work together and productively and the Chinese side is actually investing some money to offer scholarships to Western students and, going back to the current situation, how much difference do you think the approval of the draft of law in Congress? to the relationship now it's just another thing um you know, funding for Taiwan is something that angers Beijing uh significantly um the Cen ping Administration has made reunification with central Taiwan its promise to the Chinese people to achieve the dream of prosperity and respect of China um and so this is seen as blocking that effort that blocks China's rise to its rightful place at the top of the international hierarchy um so you could say it's up there with Ukraine um and the impact that Ukraine is having on Western views on China um it's really a GameChanger not only in terms of how Americans view China, but increasingly in how Europeans are increasingly disillusioned with China because it is funding Russia's rearmament and supporting it. with semiconductors and machine tools.