On October 1, 2014, Foreign Minister Wang Yi held talks in Washington with Secretary of State John Kerry of the US.

Wang Yi said that China attaches great importance to President Barack Obama's attendance at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Informal Leaders' Meeting in Beijing next month and his visit to China. Both sides should join efforts to push for positive results from the visit, planning and leading the development of China-US relations in the next stage. Therefore, both sides should respect each other's core interests, properly handle and control differences, and pass on and enhance positive energy. Wang Yi expressed that both sides should speed up the negotiation on China-US investment agreement and promote bilateral two-way investment. China is now vigorously combating corruption and upholding integrity and is willing to enhance cooperation with the US in pursuit evasion and recovery of illicit assets. The US should not be a shelter for the corrupted. Both sides should cement and enhance the positive momentum in the development of the military-to-military relations between the two countries, and push for the establishment of a mutual notification mechanism on major military activities and a code of safe conduct for maritime and air military activities in international waters; conduct more visa reciprocity arrangements so as to facilitate bilateral personnel exchanges; carry out communication and cooperation and strive to build climate change into a new highlight of bilateral cooperation; give full play to respective advantages and join efforts to help relevant West African countries combat the Ebola epidemic. China supports the international community to intensify anti-terrorism cooperation and stands ready to deepen exchanges and cooperation with the US on anti-terrorism. Both sides should push for more results from this year's APEC Informal Leaders' Meeting and advance regional economic integration in the Asia-Pacific region.

Kerry congratulated on the 65th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. He expressed that the US welcomes a peaceful, prosperous and stable China as well as China's constructive leading role in international affairs. The US will firmly dedicate to developing the new model of major-country relationship between the US and China and hopes to create a new pattern from it for the world. The US is in no way seeking to contain China and the rebalancing strategy in Asia-Pacific of the US never aims at China. The US will join efforts with China to ensure the success of President Obama's attendance at the APEC Informal Leaders' Meeting and his visit to China. Both sides should enhance strategic communication, promote cooperation between the two armies and in economy, trade and people-to-people and cultural engagement and other areas, jointly deal with international and regional issues and challenges such as climate change, terrorism, the Ebola epidemic, the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue and the Iranian nuclear issue, and manage and control differences in a constructive way. These are in the common interests of both countries.