Senior China, U.S. Officials Meet in Beijing to Discuss Mending Frayed Relations

What’s new: Senior Chinese and U.S. foreign affairs officials met in Beijing Monday and held “candid, constructive and productive” talks, the foreign ministry said, amid intensified tensions between the two nations.

Vice Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu met with U.S. assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs Daniel Kritenbrink, senior director of the National Security Council for China affairs Sarah Beran, and Nicholas Burns, the U.S. ambassador to China, according to a foreign ministry statement published Tuesday.