With the visit to China this week of Secretary of State Antony Blinken, the Biden administration seeks to renew its engagement policy, according to Bradley Thayer, the director of China policy at the Center for Security Policy.
Blinken is traveling to China this week to meet with Chinese communist leadership, the State Department has acknowledged.
Blinken will meet with senior Chinese officials during a series of meetings in Beijing on June 18 and 19. He will seek to reestablish regular communications between the two powers, a State Department announcement said.
The visit is part of a larger effort by the administration to erect guardrails around the two powers’ increasingly bitter competition, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said….