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Hints at a truce in acrimony between Beijing and Washington during the first visit by a US secretary of state in five years

Mr Blinken became the first American diplomat to visit China in almost five years after touching down on Sunday for two days of high-stakes talks aimed at cooling relations between the nations

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On Sunday, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met for nearly six hours with Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang, but there was no sign of a resolution to many fractious issues between the two nations.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has opened a second and final day of critical meetings with senior Chinese officials as the two sides expressed willingness to talk but showed little inclination to bend on hardened positions that have sent tensions soaring

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has met his Chinese counterpart, and the two have agreed to meet again in Washington.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken had “candid” talks with his Chinese counterpart in Beijing, the two countries said, as both looked to project a positive but cautious tone about a visit that’s meant to bring some semblance of normalcy back to a strained relationship.

U.S. officials say United States and China have failed to overcome their most serious disagreements but were able to discuss them in a potentially constructive way and have agreed to continue talks

US secretary of state ‘held candid, substantive, and constructive talks’, state department spokesperson says