Secretary of State Antony Blinken began talks in China on the highest-level trip by a US official in nearly five years as the two powers looked to notch down the temperature in an escalating rivalry
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and China's Foreign Minister Qin Gang shake hands ahead of a meeting at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing. / Photo: AFP
Blinken and his aides opened the two-day visit by meeting Foreign Minister Qin Gang at an ornately decorated state villa in Beijing's ancient Diaoyutai gardens on Sunday, where the Chinese hosts will later throw a banquet dinner. Both sides have voiced guarded hope of improving communication and preventing conflict, with the world's two largest economies at odds on an array of issues from trade to technology and regional security.
He was originally scheduled to visit in February but abruptly scrapped his plans as the United States protested - and later shot down - what it said was a Chinese spy balloon flying over its soil.
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