National security adviser Jake Sullivan held an unscheduled meeting with China’s top diplomat Wang Yi in Malta during the weekend, the White House said. The meeting was part of the Biden administration’s efforts to reopen the high-level communication lines with China’s communist regime and manage bilateral ties that have deteriorated over a slew of issues, from trade to Taiwan. In the past three months, President Joe Biden has dispatched four cabinet-level officials to Beijing: Secretary of State Antony Blinken; Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen; John Kerry, President Joe Biden’s climate envoy; and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo. The White House called the recent meeting “candid, substantive, and constructive,” while China’s foreign ministry described the meeting as “frank, substantive, and constructive.”...Read more https://www.theepochtimes.com/china/biden-national-security-adviser-secretly-meets-with-chinas-top-diplomat-in-malta-5492980