Wang studied at Student Center of British Council, at the United World College of the Atlantic in Wales, and at the London School of Economics in England.

He is a graduate from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, United States, in 1982.

On 3 May 2006, when Britain and France introduced a UN Security Council resolution insisting Iran end its nuclear program, Wang commented, "I don't think this draft as it stands now will produce good results.

"[5] According to a September 2006 profile of Wang in The New York Times Magazine, he was considered the top contender for the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs in Beijing in 2007.

[11] The phrase was first used by former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Jiang Zemin in December 1989 when he met the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.