US Lawmakers Urge Biden Officials to Stay Tough on China During Upcoming Talks
TAIPEI, Taiwan U.S. Lawmakers are calling on Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan to be tough on Beijing when they meet with Chinese officials in Alaska next week.
“Communist China is America’s greatest national security threat,” Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) said, according to a March 11 statement. “General Secretary Xi [Jinping] knows President Biden is weak on China and wants nothing more than to appease the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).”
Blinken and Sullivan are scheduled to meet with two top Chinese officials China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi, and the top CCP official in charge of foreign affairs, Yang Jiechi in Anchorage, Alaska, on March 18. The meeting is the first high-level in-person meeting between the two nations since President Joe Biden took office on Jan. 20.
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