Dialogue and engagement way to improve Sino-US relations

The ongoing visit to China of Susan Elliott, president and CEO of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy, and her delegation, has provided a good opportunity for Beijing to brief Washington about its stance on and hopes for US relations ahead of the next US administration taking office.

Beijing values the committee's role as a nonpartisan policy organization dedicated to advancing American foreign policy interests through "dialogue and engagement". In his meeting with Elliott in the Chinese capital on Tuesday, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi expounded on the necessity of steadying Sino-US relations during the power transition in the United States.

Pointing to the immediate causes of the serious damage done to China relations, Wang stressed China's strong opposition to the US' repeated arms sales to Taiwan and that the Taiwan question is a red line that no country can cross. He also singled out the US' continuous expansion of the list of Chinese entities subject to unilateral sanctions.