Blinken planning to visit China as soon as next week: report

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is planning to travel to Beijing as early as next week to hold talks with senior Chinese officials, U.S. political news website Politico reported Thursday.If the trip goes ahead, it would be the first visit to China by a ministerial-level official from Washington since the start of President Joe Biden's administration in 2021.Despite months of heightened tensions between the United States and China, the report comes amid the Biden administration stepping up efforts to restore lines of communication between the two countries' high-ranking officials.Earl…READ FULL ARTICLE