Blinken in Beijing: Secretary of State
lands in China on mission to cool boiling
tensions in highest-level US diplomatic
visit since Biden took office
Posted By: Imright, 6/17/2023 9:08:11 PM
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Beijing early Sunday on a high-stakes diplomatic mission to try to cool exploding US-China tensions that have set many around the world on edge. Blinken was to begin two days of talks with senior Chinese officials in the afternoon. 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. The trip comes after he postponed plans to visit in February over a Chinese spy balloon that was shot down after drifting over the US, further inflaming tensions between DC and Beijing.
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