Washington correspondent
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is traveling to Beijing to try to stabilize U.S.-China relations, but diplomats expect little significant progress. The only success of this visit may be that it took place.
Blinken's trip to China, the first since he took office, was postponed last February after the mini-crisis of the Chinese spy balloon spotted and shot down over US territory. It was again almost called into question by the recent revelations about the existence of a Chinese military listening station in Cuba.
The "Taiwan question"
These two incidents sum up the level of mutual mistrust between the two great powers. Since the last visit by a US foreign minister in 2018, the two countries have seen their relations deteriorate at an accelerated rate, and now closely resemble those that existed between the two blocs during the Cold War.
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