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US confirms top diplomat Blinken’s long-anticipated China visit

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to China for first time since President Joe Biden took office [Stefani Reynolds/The Associated Press]

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.

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