China says it will discuss climate, other issues with America

China said on Saturday that it had agreed to take up climate change and some other issues with the US, indicating a possible way to progress in the recently concluded talks that would otherwise make the two largest parts of the world The dividing issues were marked by sharp public exchanges. Economies.

Official Xinhua News Agency A dispatch from Anchorage, Alaska, where a two-day meeting took place on Friday, saw China and the US set up a working group on climate change and hold talks to “facilitate diplomatic and consular … activities” Was decided. Mission ”and issues related to each other’s journalists.

The two countries disputed journalist visas and consulates during the Trump administration, and climate change is seen as an area where they may be able to cooperate.

Senior Biden administration officials have held a face-to-face meeting with their Chinese counterparts in Alaska since assuming office earlier this year.

Negotiations began with tense and extended exchanges on human rights before television cameras before they retreated behind closed doors.

Xinhua The report did not provide any details on the Climate Change Working Group, except to say that the two countries were committed to increasing communication and cooperation in the region.

It also said that the two sides discussed mutual arrangements for adjusting COVID-19 travel and visa policies and for immunization of their diplomats.

The report states that the two countries have agreed to negotiate consular missions and journalists, but this does not cite past disputes.

The US ordered the closure of the Chinese consulate in Houston last year and China responded by closing the US consulate in Chengdu city.

Chinese journalists in the US and foreign journalists working for the US media in China are now being held for only three months, which has led to uncertainty in their work, although those migrants have generally been renewed.