The meeting between the two went ahead despite Microsoft saying two days ago that Chinese hackers had breached US government email accounts, including those of the State Department.
The top United States and Chinese diplomats met on Thursday for the second time in as many months, seeking to manage tensions that risk flaring anew over alleged Chinese hacking.
The Jakarta talks come nearly a month after Mr Blinken travelled to Beijing, the first visit by a US secretary of state in nearly five years, and met President Xi Jinping as well as Mr Wang and Foreign Minister Qin Gang. But the US has still not achieved its key goal of resuming dialogue with the Chinese military, seen as critical to avoiding confrontation.
Mr Blinken spoke in unusually sanguine terms about China after his trip to Beijing, avoiding the Cold War-like talk of a long-term global confrontation with the rising Asian power that was popular under former president Donald Trump's administration. The State Department said it detected"anomalous activity" but stopped short of publicly blaming China, saying an investigation was underway.
Mr Wang addressed Asean ministers before talks on Thursday morning as did Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who will be in the same room as Mr Blinken on Friday for the East Asia Summit meeting.
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