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Blinken meets Xi in Beijing
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Blinken meets Xi in Beijing

Ian Bremmer's Quick Take: Tony Blinken, the US Secretary of State, had a weekend trip to Beijing that included a last-moment meeting with President Xi Jinping, and then suddenly it is all over state media and social media. In a sense, the Chinese blessing the visit to their public and showing that they want to have a more constructive or at least stable relationship. What's the bad news? There is no trust within this relationship.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets Chinese President Xi Jinping in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
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Blinken-Xi talks deliver mixed results

There was no breakthrough on any issue, and how it went depends on how you view the immediate future of fraught US-China ties.