U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to China next week for long-delayed talks aimed at stabilizing tense relations, and a U.S. official said he is expected to be there on June 18.
that Blinken would travel to China in the coming weeks, citing an official who spoke on condition of anonymity.In February, Washington's top diplomat scrapped a planned trip to Beijing, which would have been the first by a U.S. secretary of state in five years,Washington has been keen to reschedule the trip, and the timing emerged after the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that China has reachedon the island roughly 100 miles from Florida.
The State Department, White House and Pentagon did not, however, immediately respond to requests for comment on athat said China was planning to build a facility in Cuba that U.S. officials were concerned could be capable of spying on the United States by intercepting signals from nearby U.S. military and commercial facilities.
The Cuba issue could raise questions about Blinken's planned trip, intended by Washington to be a major step toward what President Joe Biden has called a "thaw" in relations between the world's two largest economies. U.S. Senator Mark Warner, chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence, and Senator Marco Rubio, the panel's vice chair, said on Thursday they were "deeply disturbed" by the Journal report and urged the Biden administration "to take steps to prevent this serious threat to our national security and sovereignty."
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