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(Bloomberg) -- US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and China’s top foreign policy official, Wang Yi, held talks on a range of issues including fentanyl, hacking and Beijing’s military activities, according to senior State Department officials, as the two largest economies ramp up high-level dialogue to stabilize ties.Most Read from BloombergFund Titans Are Betting on Everything Gaining Against the DollarSingapore Minister Faces Most Serious Graft Probe Since 1986DeSantis Says No T...

China and the US have been having increasingly frequent talks between senior officials recently and are expected to have more exchanges in various fields, such as diplomacy, finance, trade, climate change and maybe military in the future, but Chinese experts said that if US President Joe Biden wants to stabilize ties with China and hold another China-US summit later this year before the US presidential election, Washington needs to show more concrete sincerity through actions, otherwise the freq...

A major US foreign policy think tank calls for more hostile measures against China over Chinese Taipei.



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The Chinese balloon that traversed the US was capable of collecting communications signals and was part of a military-led spy program that spanned more than 40 countries, Biden administration officials said. The Biden administration presented the new evidence in a State Department fact sheet on the balloon’s capabilities and in…

Without commanders talking in real time, the two sides would have one less way of averting greater conflict.

It's the latest example of a frustrating trend: American military leaders try to get their Chinese counterparts on the phone, but their calls are ignored.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Within hours of an Air Force F-22 downing a giant Chinese balloon that had crossed the United States, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin reached out to his Chinese counterpart via a special crisis line, aiming for a quick general-to-general talk that could explain things and ease tensions.

Within hours of an Air Force F-22 downing a giant Chinese balloon that had crossed the United States, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin reached out to his Chinese counterpart via a special crisis line, aiming for a quick general-to-general talk that could explain things and ease tensions. But Austin’s effort Saturday fell flat, when Chinese Defense…