China, US agrees to stabilize ties during Antony Blinken visit to Beijing

China and United States have agreed to stabilize their ties but did not announce any major breakthroughs during the critical visit to Beijing by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Chinese President Xi Jinping said, the two countries have agreed to resume a program of understandings that he and US President Joe Biden agreed to at a meeting in Bali last year.

In his remarks, Mr. Blinken said, the two countries have an obligation and responsibility to manage their relationship and that the United States was committed to doing that. The U.S. Secretary of State told reporters that he also raised contentious issues such as Taiwan, the democratic island Beijing claims as its own. Mr. Blinken is the highest-level U.S. official to visit China since President Joe Biden took office, and the first Secretary of State to make the trip in five years.