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Blinken to meet Wang Yi, shun Lavrov, at G20 talks in Bali
Blinken will arrive Thursday in the Indonesian resort island for talks of foreign ministers of the Group of 20, the club of major economies that still includes Russia -- despite US-led efforts to isolate Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine.
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (left) meets with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (right) in Stockholm, on December 2, 2021. The US Secretary of State hold talks with his Russian counterpart on the sidelines of a meeting of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)
(AFP/Jonathan NACKSTRAND)
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will hold a rare meeting with China's foreign minister seeking to contain tensions, but will shun his Russian counterpart at a conference in Bali this week, officials said Thursday.
Blinken will arrive Thursday in the Indonesian resort island for talks of foreign ministers of the Group of 20, the club of major economies that still includes Russia -- despite US-led efforts to isolate Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine.
The State Department said Blinken will meet for the first time since October with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, one of a string of recent meetings between the world's two largest economic powers amid high tensions on issues including Taiwan.
"I expect that in the course of that meeting that we will be able to discuss having guardrails, so to speak, on the relationship so that our competition does not spill over into miscalculation or confrontation," said Daniel Kritenbrink, the top US diplomat for East Asia.
"The United States also remains committed to exploring areas of potential cooperation where our interests require," he told reporters.
The meeting comes as the White House expects a new conversation in the coming weeks between US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping, who has not traveled internationally since the Covid-19 pandemic.
Shunning Russia
