Yellen Heads to China This Week Advancing US Bid to Fix Ties
- Visit will be Yellen’s first to China as Treasury secretary
- The trip follows Blinken’s, with Biden-Xi meet eyed later
WATCH: Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will travel to Beijing later this week to hold talks with senior Chinese officials. Stephen Engle reports.
Source: BloombergUS Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will travel to Beijing on July 6-9, becoming the second member of Joe Biden’s cabinet to head to the Chinese capital in recent weeks, as the world’s two largest economies look to mend ties after a spate of bilateral tensions.
Yellen’s trip will take place just three weeks after Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited China, highlighting the efforts by the Biden administration to reinstate lines of communication with counterparts in Beijing.