Wang Yi and Marco Rubio at Asean discuss Xi’s planned US visit, South China Sea clash

America’s top diplomat describes dispute between Beijing and Manila over Second Thomas Shoal as very negative and benefiting no one The Chinese president’s planned trip to the US and the Beijing-Manila South China Sea dispute led the agenda when the top Chinese and American diplomats met in the Philippines on Wednesday. After his talks with Wang, Rubio said there were still differences between the two countries but that their job was to manage them. He added that there were areas of potential cooperation, and they discussed President Xi Jinping’s planned trip to the US, according to Reuters. “The work we need to do now [for] September is to identify what those areas are, so that we can lay the groundwork for a very positive visit … we talked a lot about that,” Rubio said.

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