Blinken meets Chinese foreign minister Qin Gang in Beijing

Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Qin Gang met with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Beijing on Sunday. Blinken's trip is the highest level by a US official to China in nearly five years.

The two sides said Foreign Minister Qin Gang agreed to pay a return visit to Washington at a later date and that the two top diplomats would work together to expand flights between the world's two largest economies, which remain at a bare minimum since the Covid-19 pandemic.