BEIJING/WASHINGTON, Nov 11 - Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held a "positive and constructive" call with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday, China's state news agency Xinhua reported, with Beijing expressing willingness to strengthen communication and cooperation with Washington.
The talks come roughly a week ahead of the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in China's Shenzhen, where Presidents Xi Jinping and Donald Trump are expected to meet.
The current stability in China-US relations has not come easily, Wang said, calling it "a rational choice made by the two major countries based on respective and shared interests," the Xinhua report said.
There was no immediate readout of the call from the US State Department.
Xi and Trump have met twice already this year and Rubio told reporters on Tuesday there was work underway to arrange a trilateral meeting on the APEC sidelines involving Trump, Xi and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Rubio said Trump wants that meeting to happen and added: "We think it should be possible."
Trump said on Sunday he thought he would meet Xi and Putin in Shenzhen and discuss ending the war in Iran and denuclearization.
He said in October that he was open to three-way arms control talks with Xi and Putin, which he said would focus on nuclear weapons, although China has appeared less keen…
