China's President Xi Jinping (R) receives US Secretary of State Antony Blinken prior to their meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on June 19, 2023.
President Xi Jinping hosted Antony Blinken for talks in Beijing on June 19, capping two days of high-level talks by the US secretary of state with Chinese officials.
BEIJING — Secretary of State Antony Blinken told NBC News on Monday that his trip to Beijing marked an "important start" in stabilizing U.S. ties with China and that the countries should move on from the spy balloon incident that postponed his earlier visit.
"That chapter should be closed," Blinken said in an interview before leaving Beijing, where he spent two days meeting with senior Chinese officials including President Xi Jinping.
Blinken's trip to China, the first by a U.S. secretary of state since 2018, was postponed in February after the discovery of an alleged Chinese spy balloon over U.S. territory.
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