U.S. and China’s Top Diplomats Meet in Indonesia

China and the U.S. reached a common understanding in some areas and took “an important step” toward repairing their fraught relationship during a meeting between the two countries’ top diplomats, the foreign ministry said Friday.

Wang Yi, director of the party Central Committee’s foreign affairs office, met U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday on the sidelines of the ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Jakarta, according to a foreign ministry statement. During the meeting Wang told Blinken that “the critical next step is to take real actions to put the bilateral relationship back on the right track.”