WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with incoming Chinese language Overseas Minister Qin Gang over the cellphone on Sunday, Blinken mentioned on Twitter, after China final week appointed its ambassador to the US to be its new international minister.
Blinken mentioned he mentioned the U.S.-China relationship and sustaining open strains of communication in his cellphone name with Qin.
China on Friday appointed Qin, its ambassador to the US and a trusted aide of President Xi Jinping, to be its new international minister, as Beijing and Washington search to stabilize rocky relations.
Qin, 56, replaces Wang Yi, who had been international minister for the previous decade. Wang, 69, was promoted to the politburo of the Chinese language Communist Celebration in October and is anticipated to play a much bigger position in Chinese language international coverage.
Although Qin sounded optimistic about U.S.-China relations throughout his comparatively temporary, 17-month stint as ambassador in Washington – his predecessor had held the submit for eight years – his tenure nonetheless coincided with deteriorating ties between the 2 superpowers.
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Wang’s stint as international minister noticed a pointy rise in tensions between Beijing and Washington on a variety of points starting from commerce to Taiwan.
(Reporting by Daphne Psaledakis; Modifying by Nick Zieminski)
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