US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken will travel to China at the end of next week on a visit that was postponed last February following a Chinese Balloon incursion into US airspace, US officials announced .

edited by |Jus Mcmahon

Politic section -  CJ journalist

Washington - June,11,2023

Blinken will arrive in Beijing on June 18, according to the officials, who requested anonymity and explained that it will be the first visit by a senior US diplomat to China since the visit of his predecessor Mike Pompeo in October 2018.

US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said recently that Washington would announce the travel of US officials "in the near future", without adding any details.

For the first time since Joe Biden took office in the United States, US and Chinese Presidents Xi Jinping met last November at the group of twenty summit in Indonesia, and during the meeting they agreed to cooperate on a number of issues.

But relations between the two countries were strained again in February after a Chinese surveillance balloon flew over US territory in what Washington considered an act of espionage. Blinken canceled a trip to China at the last minute.

However, the two sides finally sought to calm down, especially during a closed-door meeting in May in Vienna between White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan and chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Communist Party of China Wang Yi.

But tension still persists between the two countries over the issues of Taiwan, China's claims to sovereignty over large parts of the China Sea or even the issue of strategic electronic chips.

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