Blinken to Visit to China Next Sunday in Push to Mend Ties

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken to visit China next Sunday, as part of President Joe Biden's administration's efforts to mend deteriorating relations between the United States of America (USA) and China.

Blinken attempts to keep lines of communication open between the two giant countries on the international scene.

With the start of this visit announced by the US State Department, Blinken will be the highest-ranking US official to visit China since Biden took office, noting that the last similar visit was to former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in 2018.

Blinken's visit was previously scheduled for this year, but it was postponed after discovering and dropping what the United States described as a Chinese spy balloon through US airspace.

Since then, contacts between the United States and China have declined, amid continued mutual accusations regarding the actions of the two sides in the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea, and against the background of Beijing's refusal to denounce the Russian war in Ukraine.