From January 26 to 27, 2024 local time, Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Director of the Office of the Central Commission for Foreign Affairs Wang Yi held a new round of meetings with U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan in Bangkok. The two sides had candid, substantive and productive strategic communication on implementing the common understandings reached between the two heads of state at the summit meeting in San Francisco and properly handling important and sensitive issues in China-U.S. relations.

Wang Yi said that this year marks the 45th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States. The two sides should take this opportunity to sum up experience and draw lessons, treat each other as equals instead of in a condescending way, build common ground and shelving instead of highlighting differences, and respect instead of undermining each other's core interests. Both sides should work together toward mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, and win-win cooperation, finding the right way for China and the United States to get along with each other.

Wang Yi stressed that the Taiwan question is China's internal affair, and the election in the Taiwan region cannot change the basic fact that Taiwan is part of China. "Taiwan independence" poses the biggest risk to cross-Strait peace and stability and the biggest challenge to China-U.S. relations. The U.S. side must abide by the one-China principle and the three China-U.S. Joint Communiqués, translate its commitment of not supporting "Taiwan independence" into action and support China's peaceful reunification.

Wang Yi pointed out that every country has its national security concerns, but these concerns must be legitimate and reasonable. There should be no politicizing or overstretching of the concept of security, nor can these concerns be used to suppress and contain other countries' development. The two sides agreed to further discuss the boundary between national security and economic activities.

The two sides agreed to jointly implement the "San Francisco vision": the two heads of state will maintain regular contact to provide strategic guidance to bilateral relations; promote exchanges in various fields and at various levels between China and the United States, make good use of current strategic communication channels as well as a series of dialogue and consultation mechanisms in such areas as diplomacy, military, economy, finance, business and climate change; continue discussions on the guiding principles of China-U.S. relations; launch a working group on counternarcotics cooperation between China and the United States in the near future; hold the first meeting of China-U.S. inter-governmental dialogue mechanism on artificial intelligence this spring; and take further steps to expand cultural and people-to-people exchanges between the two countries.

The two sides also discussed international and regional issues, including the Middle East, Ukraine, the Korean Peninsula and the South China Sea.