Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken spoke by telephone Sunday, marking the first high-level exchange between Beijing and Washington since the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party ended the previous weekend. At the party meeting, Wang was elevated to the CCP’s politburo and is set to become the head of China’s Central Commission for Foreign Affairs, the party’s top foreign policy body. Ahead of a possible meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his U.S. counterpart, Joe Biden, at the upcoming G-20 summit in Indonesia, the two sides are trying to lower the temperature in their relationship, which has recently been characterized by intensifying competition and tense exchanges.
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