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WASHINGTON - CIA director William Burns visited China last month for talks with Chinese counterparts, a US official said on Friday as Washington seeks to boost communications with Beijing.
Burns, a veteran US diplomat before leading the CIA, has made dozens of sensitive overseas trips as head of the agency, including to hold talks with Russian counterparts, as well as the Taliban in Afghanistan.Ties between the world’s two largest economies have been strained over issues ranging from Taiwan and China’s human rights record to military activity in the South China Sea.
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin shook hands with China’s Minister of National Defense Li Shangfu on the sidelines of a security summit in Singapore but the two did not have a “substantive exchange,” the Pentagon said on Friday.
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