U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken stressed the need for cooperation and transparency over the origins of Covid-19 in a call with Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi on Friday and raised other contentious topics, including China's treatment of Uyghur Muslims, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Yang, China's top diplomat, expressed to Blinken Beijing's serious concern that some people in the United States.
A top Chinese diplomat told Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday that the theory that COVID-19 leaked from a laboratory in the city of Wuhan was an “absurd story,” the country’s state media reported.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with China's top diplomat, Yang Jiechi, on Friday as Congress debates a bill that would ramp up the United States' competitiveness with Beijing. According to Reuters, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV first reported the conversation between Blinken and Yang, the director of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission of China's ruling Communist Party. Yang reportedly expressed support for cooperation with the.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken stressed the need for cooperation and transparency over the origins of COVID-19 in a call with his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi on Friday and raised other sensitive topics, including China's treatment of Uyghur Muslims, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
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