Foreign Minister Wang Yi's failure to meet with U.S. Secretary of State Rubio has drawn attention.

Very strange! Foreign Minister Wang Yi has not yet held a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Rubio! The 58th ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting and related meetings were held in Kuala Lumpur from July 8 to 11, lasting for four days. During the meeting on July 10, our Foreign Minister Wang Yi met separately with Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov and Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh. Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of State Rubio had a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov.

This means that according to the current press release, the high-level meeting between China and the United States has not taken place yet. In fact, our Foreign Minister only stayed in Malaysia for two days, which are July 10 and July 11. According to the schedule released by our Foreign Ministry, our foreign minister will attend the China-ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting, the ASEAN Plus Three Foreign Ministers' Meeting, the East Asia Summit Foreign Ministers' Meeting, and the ASEAN Regional Forum Foreign Ministers' Meeting. In fact, this schedule does not mention a high-level meeting between China and the United States.

According to this schedule, it means that the meeting between the foreign ministers of China and the United States can only take place tomorrow. If no meeting is held tomorrow, the high-level meeting between China and the United States will not happen. In fact, according to the information previously released by the United States, both sides should have held a meeting. On one hand, Trump's statements conveyed a relatively positive message, and on the other hand, the U.S. is still fulfilling the framework agreement. So far, the meeting has not taken place, which may be due to the different schedules of both sides.

However, there are also bad news between China and the United States. First, because we bought oil from Iran, the U.S. has imposed sanctions on 18 of our companies. Second, Trump once again used threats to deal with us. Recently, Trump claimed that any country that allies with the "anti-American policy" of the BRICS countries would be subject to an additional 10% tariff, and there will be no exceptions. It is obvious that the United States is going backward in its relations with China. Of course, whether the meeting will take place or not will soon be known.

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