Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio held a telephone discussion on Wednesday that both sides described as positive and productive.
The call covered China–US relations broadly and the recent interactions between the two countries’ heads of state, Hiru News reported at 8.06 a.m. on Thursday.
What Wang Yi said
Wang said Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to the United States in September had concluded successfully, and that the two heads of state had agreed to further broaden the content of a new vision for the relationship. That agreement, he said, provides clearer strategic guidance for the two countries to find a way of dealing with each other properly.
Achieving a stable trend in China–US relations is not an easy task, Wang said, describing it instead as a rational choice grounded in both countries’ national interests and their common interests.
He also said the two should support each other in successfully holding the APEC leaders’ summit and the G20 summit taking place in 2026.
Context
A foreign ministers’ call is the routine working level of the relationship, and the framing reported here — stability as a deliberate choice rather than an easy default — is the language Beijing has used to describe the period since the September summit.
The reference to mutual support on APEC and the G20 is the most concrete item in the readout: both are leader-level meetings where attendance and sherpa-level cooperation are themselves diplomatic signals.
Not reported
This account is drawn from one Sri Lankan outlet’s summary of what is evidently a Chinese readout, and it carries the characteristic one-sidedness of that format. No US statement of the call is quoted, and nothing is reported of what Rubio said. The filing gives no direct quotations, names no specific agreement, and does not say which side requested the call.
It does not mention tariffs, trade, Taiwan, export controls or any other substantive file, and does not say where the 2026 APEC and G20 summits are being held or whether either leader plans to attend.
A corroboration pass was not completed against an international verified newsroom for this item. Previous cycles have found BBC, Reuters, AP and the Guardian unreachable to this desk’s search tooling, with CNN and Al Jazeera the only reliably searchable verified international domains. The article is single-source and should be read as a summary of the Chinese side’s account.
