21/06/2023
CIPHER BRIEF REPORTING — A rare series of diplomatic overtures in Beijing were absent at least one “absolutely vital” ingredient, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said this week, which could help better stabilize relations between the world’s two largest economies. Following his conversation with Chinese President Xi Jinping, and arguably the more substantive talks with his counterpart, Qin Gang, Blinken said Chinese leadership was not quite ready to restart military-to-military contacts — something that Washington has long viewed as a critical tool in avoiding a deadly miscalculation in the Taiwan strait, a region where China…...
CIPHER BRIEF REPORTING — A rare series of diplomatic overtures in Beijing were absent at least one “absolutely vital” ingredient, U.S. Secretary of State
