Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi urged China and the United States to remove disruptions and overcome obstacles ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s scheduled Sept. 24 meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House. During a Beijing meeting with U.S. Ambassador to China David Perdue, Wang acknowledged that relations between the world’s two largest economies still faced risks and challenges, and called for implementing understandings reached by the two leaders, focusing on a positive agenda and supporting steady, healthy and sustainable ties. Perdue said both sides wanted to strengthen communication, advance cooperation and prepare for further high-level interactions. The summit will follow Trump’s May state visit to Beijing, where the leaders created bilateral trade and investment boards but left disagreements over Taiwan and trade unresolved. The two countries are also expected to hold their first formal artificial-intelligence talks under the Trump administration in September, focused on risks from increasingly powerful frontier models. The diplomatic effort is being tested by Washington’s consideration of another 7.5% tariff on Chinese goods over alleged industrial overcapacity, Treasury’s Operation Economic Outcast sanctions against nearly 60 Iran-linked individuals, entities and vessels, including networks operating through China and Hong Kong, and a Justice Department and FBI disruption of a PRC state-sponsored hacking operation targeting NASA, the Federal Reserve, the Energy Department, the U.S. Senate and other sensitive U.S. networks. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said economic warfare and maximum pressure would not solve the Iran issue and could fuel tensions and spillover risks.