The “road to the San Francisco summit will not be a smooth one,” as China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi put it on Sunday, alluding to the anticipated meeting between US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Wang agreed to collaborate with Biden and his top aides in the lead-up to the anticipated bilateral encounter on the fringes of a summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum during their recent meeting in Washington.

Following the U.S. downing of an alleged Chinese spy balloon early in the year, there has been a flurry of bilateral diplomatic engagements in recent months, mostly at the behest of the United States, aimed at rescuing what were rapidly worsening ties.

However, Wang warned in his speech on Saturday that there would be difficulties on the route to the summit and that journey there would not be done on “autopilot,” according to a statement from the ministry.

According to the ministry, he was addressing following a conversation in Washington with members of the American strategic community.

Any Xi-Biden meeting in San Francisco, according to China’s top security agency, would depend on the United States “demonstrating sufficient sincerity,” last month.

Wang added that China and the United States should “go back to Bali,” alluding to Biden and Xi’s most recent encounter, which took place last November on the Indonesian resort island during a Group of 20 summit, and during which they talked about communication, competition, and Taiwan.

Wang stated that Washington and Beijing needed to “remove interference, overcome obstacles, enhance consensus and gather outcomes” in order to put the accord reached then into action.

He claimed that despite the fact that there are still many inconsistencies, disputes, and unresolved concerns, both parties have cooperatively sent out constructive signals to stabilise and enhance relations.

In-depth talks on Saturday also covered the relationship between the U.S. and Chinese militaries, finance, science, and technology, China’s investment climate, market access, and the crises in the Middle East and Ukraine.

(Adapted from ABCNews.go.com)

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