Wang Yi: China-US relations still face various risks and challenges

Relations between China and the United States still face various risks and challenges, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has said.

Wang Yi met with US Ambassador to China David Perdue in Beijing on Wednesday (26 August).

“China-US relations still face various risks and challenges,” Wang Yi said, as quoted by the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs during the meeting.

Wang Yi added that Beijing and Washington should focus on a positive agenda, manage differences properly, remove various obstacles, and overcome constraints on high-level exchanges between the two countries.

According to him, such steps are necessary to promote the stable, healthy and sustainable development of China-US relations.

Wang Yi said that under the strategic guidance of the two heads of state, China and the US continue to promote the development of a constructive and strategically stable bilateral relationship.

Meanwhile, Perdue said the US is ready to work with China to strengthen communication, enhance cooperation, prepare for the next stage of important high-level contacts, and build a constructive and strategically stable relationship based on mutual respect and equality.