Antony Blinken, America’s secretary of state, will go ahead with a long-delayed visit to Beijing. That will come as a relief to many other countries, especially in Asia
Analogies with that episode were perhaps inevitable when the, followed by several other American media outlets, reported on June 8th that China had made a secret agreement to establish a listening station in Cuba. Senators from both sides of the aisle urged the White House to take preventative action.
Troubling as that may be for America, it has few good options to respond. China and Cuba have both denied the media reports and the Biden administration’s subsequent allegations. Anyway, such facilities do not violate international law. And America is thought to have many similar sites in countries around the world, including Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Australia, and uses them to gather signals intelligence on China.
The effect was to stall efforts to stabilise relations that President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, began when they met in Bali in November. In the past few weeks, however, there has been a swirl of high-level contacts, including a visit to Beijing in May by William Burns, thechief. Jake Sullivan, America’s national-security adviser, also met Wang Yi, China’s top diplomat, in Vienna that month. Economic officials have met, too.
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