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...Sullivan will meet Wang in Thailand for what will be their first such contact since President Joe Biden met his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in San Francisco in November, according to two people familiar...
...Additional reporting by Richard Waters and George Hammond in San Francisco...
...US and Chinese officials are in discussions about a possible second face-to-face meeting if Xi attends the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco in November....
...This week China’s spy agency attacked recent diplomatic overtures from the US towards Beijing as mixing engagement with containment, hinting that a possible meeting of Xi and Biden in November in San Francisco...
...The spy chiefs said China was increasingly targeting companies to obtain technology....
...Last week, China’s Ministry of State Security spy agency reiterated its view that foreign consultancies often act on behalf of overseas intelligence services....
...But efforts to set a “floor” under the relationship were derailed when a suspected Chinese spy balloon flew over the US in February....
...In one sign of lower tensions since the San Francisco summit, Chinese fighter jets have stopped the “risky and coercive” intercepts that involve dangerous manoeuvres around US spy planes....
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...But efforts to create a “floor” under the relationship were derailed when a suspected Chinese spy balloon flew over North America in February....
...“To truly achieve ‘From Bali to San Francisco’,” the United States needs to show sufficient sincerity,” the MSS said....
...China and the US have clashed repeatedly this year over export controls, Taiwan and a Chinese spy balloon that flew over America this year before it was shot down....
...Hackers backed by Russian intelligence exploited a SolarWinds software product in order to spy on businesses and government organisations globally, including the US commerce and Treasury departments....
...Meanwhile, China’s spy agency on Wednesday also said it was turning its sights on the country’s financial system, claiming “state security agencies are the steadfast guardians of financial security!”...
...The pair met at the G20 in Indonesia a year ago, but an agreement to stabilise ties was derailed when a suspected Chinese spy balloon flew over the US....
...But since the middle of last year, China has been seeking to stabilise ties with the US, with Xi meeting President Joe Biden in San Francisco in November....
...On the other hand, AI has huge potential to boost spies’ operations as security threats proliferate....
...meeting a year ago, on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Indonesia, they agreed on the need to set a “floor” under the relationship, but that effort was derailed three months later when a suspected Chinese spy...
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...China has criticised the US for flying surveillance missions off its coast, but the Pentagon rejects this suggestion and stresses that its spy planes are flying legally in international airspace....
...In another sign of improvement, US officials said there had been no dangerous aerial intercepts of US spy planes by Chinese fighter jets over the South China Sea in the two months since Biden and Xi’s summit...
...Their effort a year ago was derailed when a suspected Chinese spy balloon flew over the US in February....
...US executives are back in greater numbers in a sign that bilateral tensions have eased slightly after falling to new lows last year due to a spy balloon incident....
...The leaders agreed to resurrect high-level diplomacy, but early efforts were derailed when a suspected Chinese spy balloon flew over North America in February....
...“Planet Earth is big enough for the two countries to succeed,” said Xi Jinping, China’s president, as he met his US counterpart Joe Biden in San Francisco....
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