U.S. and Chinese diplomatic and defence chiefs will meet Wednesday
for a security dialogue that Washington says will focus on curbing North
Korea’s nuclear and missile programmes.
The talks in Washington will involve U.S. Secretary of State Rex
Tillerson, Secretary of Defence Jim Mattis as well as China’s top
diplomat, State Councilor Yang Jiechi, and Gen. Fang Fenghui, chief of
state of the People’s Liberation Army, the U.S. State Department said.
It will be the inaugural session of the U.S.-China Diplomatic and
Security Dialogue, a framework launched by President Donald Trump and
Chinese President Xi Jinping during a summit in Florida in April.
The State Department said the aim was “to expand areas of cooperation
while narrowing differences on key diplomatic and security issues.”
U.S.-China ties have warmed since the April summit, in spite of
continued U.S. concerns about China’s pursuit of territory in the South
China Sea and a large trade imbalance.
Tillerson has said North Korea will top the agenda on Wednesday and
made it clear that Washington wanted more help from China in pressing
Pyongyang to abandon its weapons programs, calling Chinese efforts so
far “notable” but “uneven.”
The focus on North Korea has been sharpened by dozens of North Korean
missile launches and two nuclear bomb tests since the beginning of
2016.
North Korea says it is working to develop a nuclear-tipped missile
capable of hitting the United States, and this week Mattis called it the
“most urgent” threat to U.S. national security.
China is party to UN economic sanctions on North Korea.
It remains the country’s main ally and trading partner and has been
reluctant to impose the sort of punishing measures experts say are
needed to get Pyongyang to abandon its weapons programmes.
In Beijing, asked about the talks, China’s foreign ministry
spokesman, Lu Kang, said, “The two sides are in close communication
about the schedule, but the issues discussed will be those that both
countries are concerned about and that involve China-U.S. relations.”
He did not elaborate.
On Tuesday, Tillerson said Washington was considering imposing
“secondary sanctions” on foreign firms doing business with North Korea
and had been in discussions with Beijing about the activities of
entities inside China.
A Washington think tank said this week that North Korea’s effort to
circumvent sanctions was complex but could be defeated by targeting
relatively few Chinese firms.
The U.N. Security Council expanded targeted sanctions against North
Korea this month in the first such resolution agreed by the United
States and China since Trump took office.
Washington has been pushing for even tougher steps, including an oil
embargo, bans of North Korea’s airline and overseas workers and
interception of its cargo ships.
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