China says talks with US in Bangkok ‘candid, substantive’

BEIJING: China on Saturday said that top diplomat Wang Yi and US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan held “candid, substantive and fruitful” talks in Thailand´s capital Bangkok, where issues including Taiwan were discussed.

Beijing and Washington have clashed in recent years on flashpoint issues from technology and trade to human rights, as well as over the self-ruled island and competing claims in the South China Sea.

In a bid to improve some of the worst relations in decades, US President Joe Biden met Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in San Francisco in November for talks that both sides described as a qualified success.