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Home / China / Diplomatic tango: Blinken heads to China. But thawing relations will take more than a meeting
China, Asia

June 18, 2023

Diplomatic tango: Blinken heads to China. But thawing relations will take more than a meeting

“U.S.-China trade continues to set records and a lot of Americans benefit from this,” he said. “Farmers in the Midwest are huge beneficiaries of Chinese demand for soybeans. China is hungry for resources and they know Americans deliver quality and efficiency. Americans continue to be technological leaders. Our universities are the top in the world. We need to work collaboratively. A lot of the discussion about decoupling has gone way too far.”

As an expert in China’s military, he said that while Beijing has been “sobered a bit” by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, China’s military is “more or less ready (militarily) to (invade Taiwan) and waiting for the order.”

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