“Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Monday, capping a string of discussions aimed at lowering tensions between the two superpowers while leaving unresolved their most bitterly contested issues,” the Washington Post reports.
“Still, the 35-minute-long meeting was the culmination of more than 10 collective hours of meetings Blinken held with Wang Yi, China’s top foreign policy official and Foreign Minister Qin Gang, and may at least stop the downward spiral in bilateral relations.
”Bloomberg: China and U.S. hit pause — for now — on tensions.