US and China are engaged in high-level dialogue regarding North Korea sending troops to Russia as the Kremlin wages war on Ukraine, America’s top diplomat said on Thursday.
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken described “a robust conversation” with China taking place this week about Moscow and Pyongyang’s military cooperation in the Ukraine war.
Blinken urged Beijing to “do more” to curb “provocative” actions being taken by two of its closest partners.
“I think they know well the concerns that we have and the expectations that, both in word and deed, they’ll use the influence that they have to work to curb these activities. So we’ll see if they take action,” Blinken said of China after a meeting he and Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin held with their South Korean counterparts in Washington.
His remarks came after a New York Times report on Thursday said his deputy, Kurt Campbell, and other State Department officials met Chinese diplomats “for several hours” in the residence of Xie Feng, Beijing’s envoy to Washington, on Tuesday.
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