Rubio to hold talks with China's Wang Yi as regional powers join Asean meeting

East Timor's Foreign Minister Bendito dos Santos Freitas and Vietnam Foreign Minister Le Hoai Trung look on as US Secretary of State Marco Rubio shakes hands with Cambodia's Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn after a group photo during the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Pasay, Metro Manila, the Philippines, on Wednesday. (Photo: Reuters)

MANILA — United States Secretary of State ​Marco Rubio will meet Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on ‌Wednesday on the sidelines of a regional gathering led by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), where the two top diplomats are expected to discuss a possible September summit between their leaders.

Rubio's meeting with Wang, which was confirmed by a State Department official, comes amid a fragile truce between the global superpowers that could be complicated by US ​President Donald Trump's accusations last week of ⁠Chinese meddling in US elections, which Beijing has denied.