White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said during a visit to Tokyo on Friday that Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s trip to China will be an important event, but most likely not the most important for US foreign policy next week.
The US secretary of state will hold talks in Beijing on Sunday and Monday, just days before Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Washington.
Washington is trying to strengthen its relations with India, thereby stopping the expansion of Chinese influence.
In his press conference, Sullivan said that a key aspect of Blinken’s visit to China was to prevent a further escalation of tensions between Washington and Beijing and to avoid the world’s two largest military powers coming into conflict with each other:
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The US Secretary of State’s visit to Beijing will be the first high-level US visit to China since the Biden administration took power in January 2021. Biden was supposed to travel to Beijing in February, but the visit was postponed after the suspected downing of an intelligence balloon in US airspace, which became a source of conflict. Another between the two superpowers.
Jake Sullivan participated in a joint meeting with colleagues from Japan, South Korea and the Philippines in Tokyo, where regional security issues were on the agenda.
