“We are working on organizing contact at the highest level, but so far there is no solution,” RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.

Thus, he answered a journalist's question about the possibility of a face-to-face meeting between US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Earlier, Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman Wu Qian said the PRC urges the United States to respect Beijing's vital interests and abandon illusions about using Taiwan to control China.