Key Points
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to China next week, rescheduling a visit that was cancelled in February after a saga over a suspected surveillance balloon, U.S. officials said on Friday...
Mr. Blinken is expected to arrive in Beijing on June 18, the first trip by a top U.S. diplomat to China since his predecessor Mike Pompeo in October 2018, U.S. officials said on condition of anonymity...
Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping met in Bali in November and agreed to try to stop high tensions from soaring out of control, including by sending Blinken to Beijing...
Mr. Blinken abruptly cancelled a trip scheduled in early February after the United States said it detected and later shot down a Chinese surveillance balloon flying over the U.S. mainland, drawing fury from U.S. lawmakers and denials by Beijing...
But the two sides have more recently looked again to keep tensions in check including with an extensive, closed-door meeting between Mr. Biden's national security advisor Jake Sullivan and top Chinese diplomat Wang Yi in Vienna last month...
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