Chinese President Xi Jinping mentioned on Wednesday that China is keen to cooperate with the United States as each side handle their variations and work collectively to reply to international challenges, in accordance with Chinese state media.

Whether or not the United States and China may set up the “right” approach of getting alongside can be essential to the world, Xi mentioned in a letter delivered at an annual dinner of New York-headquartered National Committee on United States-China Relations.

Xi’s name for extra secure bilateral ties, which he says needs to be constructed on the rules of “mutual respect, peaceful co-existence and win-win cooperation”, comes earlier than a key go to by Foreign Minister Wang Yi to Washington later this week.

The journey from Thursday by means of Saturday by the highest Chinese diplomat would be the highest-level in-person engagement forward of an anticipated assembly between U.S. President Joe Biden and Xi in San Francisco on the November Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit.

Several high U.S. officers together with U.S. State Secretary Antony Blinken met their Chinese counterparts in Beijing this summer season.

Washington’s high precedence has been to make sure the extraordinary competitors between the world’s two greatest economies and their disagreements over a bunch of points from commerce to Taiwan and the South China Sea doesn’t veer into battle.

“Chinese observers believe the visit (by Wang) will pave the way for a possible meeting between the heads of the two states but added that Washington needs to make concrete efforts to address Beijing’s concerns and show its sincerity,” China’s state-controlled Global Times wrote in a commentary.