<span style="color: #222222;">The United States and China will hold top-level security talks on Friday, the State Department announced. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis will host senior Chinese officials in Washington for the second US-China Diplomatic and Security Dialogue, following a meeting in June 2017.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The announcement of talks with senior Communist Party foreign affairs official Yang Jiechi and General Wei Fenghe came on the eve of US congressional elections.</span><br />''