The mere fact that Blinken is making the trip three weeks after U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke by phone about key global and bilateral issues demonstrates that relations between the two great powers of the 21st century have improved since last year and the situation is stabilizing, even if the road has been bumpy.
Blame U.S. politicians, whose perceptions of China as a long-term strategic competitor and most consequential geopolitical challenge' are deeply flawed, states an editorial by the state news agency Xinhua.
Blinken's trip to Shanghai, where he landed, and then to Beijing has been planned for weeks, but was only officially announced last weekend. It comes amid growing concern in the West that China is gradually increasing its assistance to Russia to help it manufacture war material.
At the G7 meeting, Blinken accused Beijing of being the primary contributor to Russia's military production.
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