China’s top diplomat Yang Jiechi and U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan met in Switzerland on Wednesday.

Both countries said the talks were a follow up to last month’s phone call between Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Joe Biden. CGTN’s Giles Gibson has a report from Zurich.

To discuss: 

• Einar Tangen is a political and economic affairs commentator. 
• Pieter Cleppe is the editor-in-chief of BrusselsReport.eu. 
• Jacques deLisle is the director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for the Study of Contemporary China.
• John Gong is an economics professor at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing.

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China's top diplomat Yang Jiechi tells US national security adviser Jake Sullivan in a meeting that confrontation between their countries would cause serious damage to both sides and the world – Xinhua news agency pic.twitter.com/mrDg1UomMv

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U.S. security adviser Sullivan and China's Yang hold talks in Zurich https://t.co/yT9AGIHpjy pic.twitter.com/0P9s9iPNbd

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