The U.S. and China met to discuss the 'spy balloon'. Their statements afterward were very different

High-level meetings betwixt China and the United States are again front-and-center for markets, and the authoritative statements that travel those meetings are parsed by immoderate investors arsenic intimately arsenic Federal Reserve minutes.

Investors privation to cognize wherever the narration is headed, truthful it's important however overmuch Washington's diplomatic instrumentality tin disagree from Beijing's — successful contented and successful tone.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and China's apical diplomat Wang Yi met past play successful Germany to sermon Ukraine, Taiwan and this month's intrusion into U.S. airspace by — and the U.S. shoot-down of — a Chinese "spy balloon."

What follows is simply a examination betwixt the authoritative diplomatic statements of the United States and China that followed the Blinken-Wang meeting.

U.S. State Department: The Secretary straight spoke to the unacceptable usurpation of U.S. sovereignty and planetary instrumentality by the PRC high-altitude surveillance balloon successful U.S. territorial airspace, underscoring that this irresponsible enactment indispensable ne'er again occur. The Secretary made wide the United States volition not basal for immoderate usurpation of our sovereignty, and that the PRC's precocious altitude surveillance balloon programme — which has intruded into the aerial abstraction of implicit 40 countries crossed 5 continents — has been exposed to the world.

Chinese overseas ministry: Wang Yi acceptable distant China's beardown presumption connected the alleged "balloon incident" and pointed retired that what the US broadside has done was seemingly an maltreatment of the usage of unit and usurpation of customary planetary signifier and the International Civil Aviation Covenant. China deplores it and powerfully protests it. It is the US who is successful information the fig 1 state successful presumption of surveillance, whose high-altitude balloons illegally flew implicit China aggregate times. The US is successful nary presumption to smear China. What the US needs to bash is show sincerity, and admit and resoluteness the harm its maltreatment of unit has done to China-US relations. If the US broadside continues to fuss over, dramatize and escalate the unintended and isolated incident, it should not expect the Chinese broadside to flinch. The US broadside should be prepared to carnivore each effect arising from an escalation.

U.S. State Department: On Russia's brutal warfare against Ukraine, the Secretary warned astir the implications and consequences if China provides worldly enactment to Russia oregon assistance with systemic sanctions evasion.

Chinese overseas ministry: Wang Yi stressed that connected the Ukraine issue, China stands by principles. China is committed to promoting bid talks and has played a constructive role. The China-Russia broad strategical concern of coordination is built connected the ground of non-alliance, non-confrontation and non-targeting of 3rd countries, which is wrong the sovereign close of immoderate 2 autarkic states. We bash not judge the US's finger-pointing oregon adjacent coercion targeting China-Russia relations. The US, arsenic a large country, has each crushed to enactment for a governmental colony of the situation alternatively of fanning the flames oregon profiting from it.

U.S. State Department: The Secretary reaffirmed determination had been nary alteration to the longstanding U.S. 1 China policy, and helium underscored the value of maintaining bid and stableness crossed the Taiwan Strait.

Chinese overseas ministry: Wang Yi pointed retired that to sphere stableness crossed the Taiwan Strait, 1 indispensable firmly reason "Taiwan independence" and uphold the one-China principle. On the Taiwan question, the US broadside should respect humanities facts, grant its governmental commitments and travel done connected its connection of "not supporting Taiwan independence".

U.S. State Department: The Secretary condemned today's ICBM trial by the DPRK arsenic the latest destabilizing enactment carried retired by Pyongyang, and emphasized the request for liable powers to respond to specified important planetary challenges.

Chinese overseas ministry: The ministry made nary notation of North Korea.