Blinken Meets Top China Official on Cusp of Taiwan Elections
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, center left, meets with Chinese senior diplomat Liu Jianchao, center right, at the State Department in Washington, DC, on Jan. 12.
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with a top Chinese foreign-policy official on Friday, as their nations work to reestablish contacts that had been severed as tensions rose in recent years.
Blinken sat down in Washington with senior diplomat Liu Jianchao, who has been in the US for several days for talks with White House officials. Liu also met with Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio and a handful of former Treasury Department officials.