Can Blinken's Beijing Visit Cool Down U.S.–China Tensions?

Months after his first planned visit to China was postponed due to the detection of a Chinese spy balloon in American airspace, Secretary of State Antony Blinken is set to visit Beijing on June 18. The Biden administration has cast the visit as part of an ongoing effort to keep open communication and set guardrails as the geopolitical competition between the two countries deepens. But China has been reluctant to accept such overtures so long as the United States continues to adopt policies that China’s leadership perceives as containment of their country’s power and influence. Can the sustained high-level dialogue Blinken seeks in Beijing arrest this downward spiral of relations? 

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Michael Swaine

Michael Swaine, Senior Research Fellow at QI’s East Asia program, is one of the most prominent American scholars of Chinese security studies. He comes to QI from Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he worked for nearly 20 years as a senior fellow specializing in Chinese defense and foreign policy, U.S.-China relations, and East Asian international relations.

Jake Werner

Jake Werner is a Research Fellow at the Quincy Institute. Prior to joining Quincy, Jake was a Postdoctoral Global China Research Fellow at the Boston University Global Development Policy Center, a Fulbright Scholar at National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan, and a Fulbright-Hays Fellow at East China Normal University in Shanghai.

Kelley Beaucar Vlahos (Moderator)

Kelley Beaucar Vlahos is a senior advisor at the Quincy Institute and editorial director of its online magazine, Responsible Statecraft. Previously she served as executive editor managing editor, and longtime foreign policy/national security writer at the American Conservative magazine. She also spent 15 years as an online political reporter for Fox News.

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