He will meet business leaders before heading to Beijing for talks with Foreign Minister Wang Yi.
SHANGHAI – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Shanghai on April 24 with US-China ties on a steadier footing, but with a daunting array of unresolved issues threatening the stability of relations between the global rivals.
While significant progress is unlikely during the visit, both countries want “open lines of communication to avoid awkward scenarios”, said Associate Professor Alfred Wu from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore. The US has preliminarily discussed putting sanctions on Chinese banks over the country’s support for Russia, but officials told Reuters they do not yet have a plan to do so.
The senior State Department official said parties should “avoid taking provocative actions that may raise tensions, and demonstrate restraint” ahead of the inauguration.An effort to force China’s ByteDance to sell the social media app TikTok or face a ban in the US is also gaining steam in Congress, a sign of the growing appetite in Washington to confront Beijing on economic issues.
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