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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with incoming Chinese
Foreign Minister Qin Gang over the phone on Sunday, Blinken said on
Twitter, after China last week appointed its ambassador to the
United States to be its new foreign minister, Trend reports citing
Al
Arabiya.
Blinken said he discussed the US-China relationship and
maintaining open lines of communication in his phone call with
Qin.
China on Friday appointed Qin, its ambassador to the United
States and a trusted aide of President Xi Jinping, to be its new
foreign minister, as Beijing and Washington seek to stabilize rocky
relations.
Qin, 56, replaces Wang Yi, who had been foreign minister for the
past decade. Wang, 69, was promoted to the politburo of the Chinese
Communist Party in October and is expected to play a bigger role in
Chinese foreign policy.
Though Qin sounded optimistic about US-China relations during
his relatively brief, 17-month stint as ambassador in Washington –
his predecessor had held the post for eight years – his tenure
nonetheless coincided with deteriorating ties between the two
superpowers.
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