US Secretary of State Blinken plans visit to China to maintain open dialogue.
The US Secretary of State has already met outside of China with the Chinese Foreign Minister, Wang Yi.
247 - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken plans to visit China in early 2023 in an effort by the two superpowers to keep the dialogue open, U.S. State Department officials said.
The indication came in the wake of a meeting between US President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Bali, Indonesia. US officials said after the meeting that the two countries will resume diplomatic talks that were interrupted by Beijing following the visit of Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the US House of Representatives, to Taiwan in August of this year. China said that the two sides agreed to intensify dialogue on issues such as climate change, macroeconomic policies, trade and food security.
Biden told reporters after the meeting that Blinken would go to Beijing "to follow up on our discussions and continue to keep the lines of communication open between our two countries."
Blinken, who would be visiting Beijing for the first time as Secretary of State, has already met outside of China with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi. They met in late September on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly meeting and in March 2021 in Anchorage, Alaska.
According to the New York Times, the Secretary of State has supported Biden's policy toward Beijing, including restrictions on the sale of chips to China.
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