US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will meet his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, on July 22 on the sidelines of an ASEAN summit in Manila, a State Department official said.
The meeting comes against the backdrop of US condemnation of Beijing’s manoeuvres in the contested South China Sea, and US President Donald Trump’s claims that China meddled with American election data.
Rubio and Wang are both in Manila for a meeting of foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
The two met in 2025 on the sidelines of an ASEAN gathering in Kuala Lumpur and again in Munich in February.
