Top diplomat Yang Jiechi meets US Secretary Pompeo

China and the United States agreed to take actions to honestly implement the consensus reached by leaders of both countries and to keep in touch and communication.

The consensus was made during a two-day meeting between Yang Jiechi, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, and the United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo from Tuesday to Wednesday in Hawaii, the Foreign Ministry announced. Yang is also the director of the Office of the Central Commission for Foreign Affairs.

The two sides exchanged in-depth views on China-US relations and regional and international issues of common concern, according to a press release.

Both sides have comprehensively elaborated their respective positions and believed that the dialogue was constructive, it said.