Top US diplomat Antony Blinken lands in China on rare trip with hopes low for any breakthrough on the most vexing issues facing the planet's two largest economies
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Beijing on a high-stakes diplomatic mission to try to cool exploding US-China tensions that have set many around the world on edge.He is the highest-level American official to visit China since President Joe Biden took office and the first secretary of state to make the trip in five years.
Yet prospects for any significant breakthrough on the most vexing issues facing the planet's two largest economies are slim, as already ties have grown increasingly fraught in recent years. Blinken plans to meet with Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang on Sunday, top diplomat Wang Yi, and possibly President Xi Jinping on Monday, according to US officials.It came within a day of happening in February but was delayed by the diplomatic and political tumult brought on by the discovery of what the US says was a spy balloon flying across the United States that was shot down.
The US wants to make sure"that the competition we have with China doesn’t veer into conflict" due to avoidable misunderstandings, he told reporters.
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