US President Joe Biden’s national security adviser is expected in Beijing today as the US and China try to resume dialogue despite their chaotic differences on a number of issues as the US election approaches.

His journey Jake Sullivan in China, which is expected to last until Thursday, is the first since 2016 for the White House national security adviser.

Jake Sullivan is expected to hold talks in particular with Wang Yi, the head of Chinese diplomacy.

Bilateral relations remain strained due to disputes over trade, China’s territorial expansion in the South China Sea, the Taiwan issue, and more.

China considers the island, which has an autonomous government, to be its province and has multiplied its acts of intimidation in recent years.

The Biden administration will express “tits concern about the growing military, diplomatic? and China’s economic pressures on Taiwan“, said an American official.

“These actions are destabilizing, they raise the risk of escalation“, she emphasized.

For its part, on the occasion of the visit, Beijing “will express its serious concerns, clarify its firm position and formulate its demands regarding Taiwan,” Chinese public broadcaster CCTV reported. .

The US, although it does not officially have diplomatic relations with Taiwan, is nevertheless the largest arms supplier to the island’s military and a protectorate of Taipei.

China often takes action against the US because it sees them as instigating and supporting the island’s pro-independence political movement.

Jake Sullivan also plans to hold talks with Chinese officials on the South China Sea issue, where tensions between China and the Philippines have escalated dramatically in recent months over territorial claims.

The visit comes as November’s US presidential election looms ever closer.

Vice President Kamala Harris, candidate to succeed Democratic President Joe Biden, is expected if she wins the election to continue the dialogue with China, however, continuing the policy of pressure.

Her rival, Republican former President Donald Trump, has repeatedly signaled that he will take a much tougher line if he returns to the White House.