US, China pledge to stabilize deteriorating ties, resume high-level talks

The United States and China pledge to stabilize their badly deteriorated ties during a critical visit to Beijing by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who met today with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

It remains to be seen whether the two countries can resolve their most important disagreements, many of which have international financial, security and stability implications.

Apart from a willingness to talk, there was little sign that either is prepared to bend from hardened positions on issues ranging from trade to Taiwan to human rights conditions in China and Hong Kong to Chinese military assertiveness in the South China Sea to Russia’s war in Ukraine.