U.S., China agree on senior-level talks in "coming weeks"

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday agreed with Chinese Vice President Han Zheng to maintain open lines of communication and hold "senior engagements in the coming weeks," the State Department said.The agreement was reached during their meeting in New York on the fringes of the annual U.N. General Assembly, the latest in a series of high-level direct communications between Washington and Beijing as they weigh a summit of their leaders later this year despite numerous areas of disagreement."From the perspective of the United States, face-to-face diplomacy is the best way to deal…READ FULL ARTICLE