China has said that senior diplomat Yang Jiechi held a "constructive" dialogue with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Hawaii on June 16 and 17, and the two sides have agreed to continue engagement and communication. They don't. And amidst the most difficult challenges the United States faces, we work to secure freedom for all." 2020 Election Donald Trump We have free speech and embrace peaceful protest. Yang and Pompeo agreed to maintain contact and communication, Xinhua reported.In a separate statement, the Foreign Ministry said Yang told Pompeo that cooperation was the "only proper choice for China and the United States. "The contrast couldn't be more clear: During the best of times, China ruthlessly imposes communism. We defend religious freedom; as I just noted, China continues its decades-long war on faith," he said at a press briefing last week. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds.CNN's Kylie Atwood, Nicole Gaouette, Maegan Vazquez, Steven Jiang and Nectar Gan contributed to this report.The meeting had been kept under wraps by the State Department until Wednesday morning, butThe Chinese Foreign Ministry was similarly tight-lipped about the meeting in Honolulu.
Andy Wong/AP No consensus was reached in talks between China’s top diplomat Yang Jiechi and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday, but the two … The two met Wednesday in Hawaii as relations between the U.S. and China continue to deteriorate.Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met China's top diplomat Yang Jiechi in Hawaii on Wednesday, in what Chinese state media said was a constructive exchange of views.The meeting comes at a time of fast-deteriorating relations between Washington and Beijing over a range of issues, including human rights, Hong Kong and the COVID-19 pandemic.Neither the U.S. nor China publicly announced the meeting in advance and it was not immediately clear which side had proposed it, highlighting the tension and mistrust that now permeate ties between the world's no.
We have the rule of law; China does not. "There is no equivalence between our two forms of government. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is slated to meet with Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi in Hawaii Wednesday as tensions escalate between China and the US. 2 economies.Pompeo has been an outspoken critic of China's ruling Communist Party and its policies, and Beijing, for its part, has singled him out for scorn, calling him irresponsible and a liar.State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus said in a brief, three-sentence statement that Pompeo stressed the need for transparency and information-sharing to fight the pandemic and prevent future outbreaks.The Trump administration has repeatedly blamed China for sparking the global coronavirus pandemic by not being open about the outbreak when it first emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December and not acting quickly enough to stop it.China has said that it has been open and transparent about the coronavirus, and handled the situation responsibly.Pompeo also raised the need for "fully-reciprocal dealings between the two nations across commercial, security, and diplomatic interactions," according to the statement.China's state news agency Xinhua put a more positive spin on the meeting.It said both sides "fully elaborated on their stances, agreeing that this was a constructive dialogue."