German Minister of Foreign Affairs calls for a meeting between China and the United States regarding Taiwan

Berlin, April 16 – Against the background of the situation around Taiwan, it is necessary to hold a meeting between US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Chinese Foreign Minister Chen Gang as soon as possible, German Foreign Minister Analina Borbock said in an interview with ZDF TV on Sunday.

“In my opinion, it is important that this meeting takes place in the near future,” she said.

She noted that Blinken announced at the last meeting of the G20 ministers that he would meet with his Chinese counterpart, but then there was an accident with a Chinese balloon that was dropped by the Americans over the Atlantic Ocean.

Berbock is attending the G7 foreign ministers’ meeting in Karuizawa, Japan, and the meeting will run until April 18.

Earlier, the British Financial Times reported, citing sources, that China is refusing to allow Blinken to visit Beijing due to fears that the FBI will release the results of the investigation into what is believed to be a Chinese reconnaissance balloon that was shot down by the United States. military in February.

Official relations between the central government of the People’s Republic of China and its island province ceased in 1949 after Chiang Kai-shek’s KMT forces were defeated in a civil war with the Chinese Communist Party, and moved to Taiwan. Commercial and informal contacts between the island and mainland China resumed in the late 1980s. Since the early 1990s, the parties have started contacting through NGOs – the Beijing Association for the Development of Relationships Across the Taiwan Straits and the Taipei Cross-Strait Exchange Foundation.