Blinken's China Trip: Salvaging Sinking Ties and Resetting Relations.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit China this weekend to discuss the importance of maintaining open lines of communication and to raise bilateral issues of concern, global and regional matters, and potential cooperation on shared transnational challenges. The visit aims to restore a sense of calm and normalcy to high-level contacts, but US officials downplayed the prospects for any significant breakthrough on the wide array of problems between the countries. The trip will take place amid myriad complications in US-China relations, which have steadily declined over the past several years dating back to the Trump administration, starting with trade and industrial espionage.