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A senior US State Department official has said the conditions set by Beijing are unacceptable for communicating with the country, Voice of America (VOA) reports.
While China’s economy is under pressure, its bid to emerge as a global superpower is behind the scenes. China’s unrealistic targets have hurt its economic growth prospects and pulled back from its annual economic growth target, affecting consumer spending, manufacturing and trade, Khabarhub reports.
By 2022, China has set a GDP growth target of just over 5% and a claimed milestone of around 3%.
On China and Ukraine ahead of the global heads of mission conference in mid-June, when the US ambassador will travel to Washington for consultations, senior US State Department official Derek Chollet told VOA in an interview that there was little evidence that China was ready. leveraged its influence over Russia to end the conflict in Ukraine.
Regarding the donation of F-16 fighter jets to war-torn Ukraine, US officials said Washington is currently working out the details.
Our Pentagon colleagues are working closely with Defense Ministries in Europe and around the world to discuss the future of the F-16. You have to start with training because it is an aircraft that is not easy to fly, he said, according to VOA.
“We are still figuring out who will actually supply the planes. We haven’t made a decision on our own,” the US official added.
US State Department official Derek Chollet on China’s peace efforts said he had modest expectations.
Russia and China maintain close relations. Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin appear to have met many times.
“What we will ask our friends in the PRC to do is use the influence they have over Russia to get Putin to stop this war. I haven’t seen much to suggest they are willing to use this leverage. And I haven’t seen many suggest that even if they were willing to use their influence, it would work to change Putin’s mind. But it’s a simple thing that we asked for,” Derek Chollet told VOA in an interview Tuesday this week.
US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and senior Chinese diplomat Wang Yi met and discussed relations between the two countries, VOA reports.
Currently, the United States’ involvement with Taiwan has angered China in several ways. China has repeatedly expressed its dissatisfaction with the United States’ alignment with Taiwan amid the Chinese invasion.
The G7 leaders’ top priority this time around at the Hiroshima summit was to address China, which is increasingly seen as a “strategic challenge” for the region and beyond.
Tensions between China and Taiwan escalated after US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited the island in August last year. China opposed Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, which China claims is its territory.
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