U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit Beijing this weekend to hold talks with Chinese officials, a senior State Department official said Wednesday, as Washington seeks to lower the temperature after months of heightened tensions between the two countries.This will be the first visit to China by a U.S. secretary of state since 2018. The trip, agreed upon by U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping last year during a meeting in Indonesia, was abruptly postponed from its initial timing in February after a suspected Chinese spy balloon flew across the United States.…READ FULL ARTICLE
