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Antony Blinken will meet top Chinese diplomat Wang Yi on Thursday as officials gather in Indonesia for ASEAN meetings, the State Department said in announcing the latest in series of interactions between the rival superpowers. Wang is representing China at the Jakarta meetings involving the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and partner countries after Beijing said Foreign Minister Qin Gang would not attend due to health reasons. Blinken met Qin and Wang in Beijing last month, marking the first visit to China by a U.S. secretary of state in five years. It was aimed at bringing stability to intense rivalry between the superpowers, which are also the world's two largest economies U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen visited China earlier this month and climate envoy John Kerry is to visit next week. Wang, who is the foreign policy chief for the Chinese Communist Party, ranks above Qin, who as the foreign minister is the government's foreign policy chief.

BEIJING — John Kerry, special presidential envoy for climate, is set to visit Beijing from July 16 to 19, according to announcements from the U.S. and China.

If you haven’t yet renewed your passport ahead of an international trip, prepare to pay plenty to fix the problem. Wait times for passports have increased across the board in recent months. Standard processing times are 10 to 13 weeks, the State Department says.

Indonesia’s top diplomat is warning of the threat posed by nuclear weapons, saying that Southeast Asia is “one miscalculation away from apocalypse” and pressing for world powers to sign a treaty to keep the region free from such arms

BEIJING — For foreign businesses in China, geopolitics hold more sway than new Chinese laws, according to analysts.

During her visit to China, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen called on her hosts to implement market reforms while criticising their actions against American companies and export controls on strategic minerals. In May, G7 leaders vowed to counter long-standing Chinese economic coercion of their corporate entities. Beijing, meanwhile, considers the US to be acting unfairly by imposing restrictions on Chinese imports of advanced semiconductors and other high technology goods, and for security reviews that discourage Chinese investment in the US.

Janet Yellen holds meeting in China

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climate change and debt distress. She reiterated that Washington was not seeking to decouple from China's economy, adding doing so would be "disastrous for both countries and destabilizing for the world." But she said the United States wanted to see an "open, free and fair economy," not one that forces countries to take sides. She said she used the discussions to raise "serious concerns" about what she called China's "unfair economic practices" and the recent uptick in coercive actions against the US firms.

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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is visiting Beijing as part of efforts to revive U.S.-Chinese relations that are at their lowest level in decades due to disputes over technology, security and other irritants

semiconductors and solar panels. The US official was due to meet Friday with China's No.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen landed in Beijing Thursday on a four-day trip aimed at finding common ground as rivalry between the U.S. and China becomes increasingly adversarial.

BEIJING — Chinese President Xi Jinping said Tuesday that Beijing opposes «decoupling and breaking links,» according to a CNBC translation of a Chinese-language state media readout.

Also read: US warns citizens to reconsider their travel plans to China: ‘May be detained…’ The Treasury issued a statement acknowledging Yellen's support for "ongoing efforts to maintain open lines of communication and responsibly manage the US-China bilateral relationship". Both sides characterized the discussion as frank and productive in their official statements.

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BEIJING — Secretary of State Antony Blinken underscored the importance of the economic aspects of the bilateral U.S.-China relationship during his high-stakes trip to Beijing earlier this week.

BEIJING — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday he failed to revive military-to-military talks with China, despite earlier hopes of reopening that communication channel.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday met with Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang and top diplomat Wang Yi in Beijing on a high-stakes diplomatic mission to cool U.S.-China tensions that have overshadowed geopolitics in recent months.

BEIJING — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is set to travel to Beijing this weekend in his first trip to China under the Biden administration.

China's new ambassador to the U.S. arrived in New York Tuesday with a call to «safeguard the interests of China,» according to a release from the country's embassy in the U.S.