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US, China officials meet in bid to move beyond spy balloon episode

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Both sides saw the incident as “unfortunate”, and are now looking to “reestablish standard, normal channels of communications”.

Both sides saw the incident as “unfortunate”, and are now looking to “reestablish standard, normal channels of communications”.

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National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan met China’s top diplomat Wang Yi

this week and pledged to keep lines of communication between Washington and Beijing open, in a bid to get relations between the two superpowers back on an even keel after

February’s spy balloon dispute.

Analysts said that while the talks did not necessarily signal that US-China relations were improving, they at least helped stabilise their relationship and prevent it from further worsening.

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