Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday told top US diplomat Antony Blinken that the world's biggest economies should be "partners, not rivals" as the two sides pressed for headway on a range of concerns.
China on Friday urged US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to address rising disagreements or risk a "downward spiral" between the two powers as talks opened in Beijing.
STORY: Earlier on Friday, Blinken held talks with China's top diplomat Wang Yi in Beijing, the latest high-level contact between the countries that have reduced the acrimony that pushed ties to historic lows last year.
Earlier in the week, China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy launched a JL-2 intercontinental ballistic missile from a nuclear-powered submarine. The JL-2 is designed to deliver a one-megaton nuclear warhead.
The U.S.-China relationship could either continue to stabilize or spiral downwards, China's foreign minister Wang Yi warned Friday as he met his U.S. counterpart, Antony Blinken, in Beijing.