WASHINGTON: Secretary of State Antony Blinken will urge open communication to 'responsibly manage' high tensions with China when he pays a rare visit to Beijing this weekend, US officials said. The State Department confirmed that Blinken will travel this weekend to Beijing on the first trip by a top US dip
and stressed"the importance of maintaining open lines of communication to responsibly manage" the relationship, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said.
"We're not going to Beijing with the intent of having some sort of breakthrough or transformation," Kritenbrink told reporters. US policymakers across party lines have spoken of China as the foremost US competitor, even as President Joe Biden also focuses on countering Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.
Blinken will be the first secretary of state to visit Beijing since a brief 2018 stop by Mike Pompeo, who later led Donald Trump's fierce approach against China including over the COVID-19 pandemic. The two sides have more recently looked again to keep tensions in check, including with an extensive, closed-door meeting between Biden's national security advisor, Jake Sullivan, and senior Chinese diplomat Wang Yi in Vienna last month.
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