BEIJING — China's top diplomats will hold a high-level strategic dialogue with their US counterparts in Alaska on March 18 and 19 at the invitation of the US side, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian confirmed on March 11.

Yang Jiechi, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the CPC Central Committee, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken as well as US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan will attend the meeting scheduled to be held in Anchorage.

China's position on China-US relations is clear, Zhao said in response to a relevant question.

China urges the US side to view China and China-US relations in an objective and rational way, abandon the Cold War and zero-sum mentality, respect China's sovereignty, security and development interests, stop interfering in China's internal affairs, focus on cooperation and manage differences in accordance with the spirit of the conversation between the two heads of state, and bring China-US relations back on the right track of sound and stable development, he said.