Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi meets with US Sec. of State Tillerson

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Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi meets with US Sec. of State Tillerson

China’s top foreign affairs official, Yang Jiechi, is in Washington on a two-day visit.

On Thursday, the state councilor met U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. Their meeting comes amid growing tensions between Washington and Beijing over trade and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

CGTN’s Roee Ruttenberg is following the story and joins us from the newsroom.


Sourabh Gupta talks about the visit by China’s top diplomat, Yang Jiechi, to the US

CGTN’s Elaine Reyes spoke with Sourabh Gupta, senior Asia-Pacific and International Relations Policy Specialist at the Institute for China-America Studies, about the visit to Washington by Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi.