US confirms top diplomat Blinken's long-anticipated China visit
The United States has confirmed that top diplomat Antony Blinken will visit China this week, a long-anticipated trip that had been postponed in February amid increasingly fraught tension between the two superpowers. Blinken will become the highest-ranking Biden administration to visit China on a trip that spans June 16 to 21 and will also include a visit to London, the Department of State said on Wednesday. In Beijing, Binken will meet senior Chinese officials to discuss the “importance of