An important event has taken place in US-China relations. From 27 to 29 August this year, Jacob Sullivan, the U.S. National Security Advisor, paid a visit to China. This political figure is the second most responsible person in this sphere of state activity. Therefore, it is not surprising that this event has also become significant for the current stage of development of the “Great World Game”.

Introductory remarks

This is the first visit by an American politician in the last eight years and it took place at the invitation of Wang Yi, member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party and Chinese Foreign Minister. It should be noted that this is the fourth meeting between these statesmen in the period from May 2023 to the present day. Such meetings demonstrate the interest of the two leaders in keeping the lines of bilateral communication open.

Shortly before the talks began, the Chinese newspaper Global Times reported that there are more than 20 different “dialogue mechanisms” through which the parties can discuss almost the entire range of emerging issues. On the scale of importance of recent events, we can safely place the “mechanism” of contacts between J. Sullivan and Wang Yi in the immediate aftermath of the meeting between the two leaders.

In September 2023, talks between Jacob Sullivan and Wang Yi took place in Malta. The purpose of the talks was to discuss the state of preparations for the meeting between Joe Biden and Xi Jinping. The leaders’ meeting took place two months later in San Francisco. In January 2024, another meeting between J. Sullivan and Wang Yi took place in Bangkok. This time they discussed the complex situation in the Southeast Asian sub-region, which, together with Taiwan, is becoming the most “heated” zone in the entire system of bilateral relations.

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