BEIJING (Reuters) – The United States should work together with China to avoid misunderstandings and misjudgments, a foreign ministry spokesman said on Thursday.
The comment came in response to a question about reports of a meeting expected next week between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his U.S. counterpart Joe Biden at a summit of the G20 grouping in Indonesia’s resort island of Bali.
China is committed to realise peaceful co-existence with the United States, but the Taiwan question is at the core of its interests, the spokesman, Zhao Lijian, said at a regular briefing in Beijing.
The United States needs to stop weaponising trade issues and take real action to defend the role of the market economy, Zhao added.
(Reporting by Eduardo Baptista, Writing by Martin Quin Pollard)
