White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan arrived in China on Tuesday for a rare visit to meet with Foreign Minister Wang Yi.

Sullivan’s plane landed in Beijing and was greeted by US Ambassador Nicholas Burns, according to authorised media reports.

Sullivan plans to begin a series of talks with senior Chinese officials in Beijing this week in a bid to ease tensions between the two superpowers ahead of the US election on 5 November.

Sullivan will meet with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and other officials during the talks scheduled for Tuesday through Thursday to discuss contentious issues between the two countries, including the situation in the Middle East, Ukraine, China’s sovereignty claims over Taiwan and the South China Sea, and trade relations between the two countries.
He is the first US national security adviser to visit China since 2016.