It's Monday, June 19.

It's important to keep the lines of communication open.

We start here.

The Secretary of State is in Beijing hoping to reset U.S.-China relations.

They're hoping to reestablish senior lines of communication between the two countries.

But is there even a floor to build upon?

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Not only now has President Biden returned to the campaign trail, and today is a national holiday.

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From ABC News, this is Start Here.

I'm Mark Remelard.

Good morning.

Brad is off today, so I'll be here with you in the meantime.

Over the weekend, a U.S. plane carrying Secretary of State Antony Blinken touched down in China

for what is the most high profile visit to the country since the start of the Biden administration.

Blinken's visit to Beijing culminated in a meeting with Chinese President Xi, and it

comes at a pivotal time in U.S.-China relations.

You might recall that Blinken was supposed to do this trip months ago, but canceled it because

a Chinese spy balloon was traversing our airspace at the time.

The balloon attempted to surveil very critical, important military installations.

We protected the sensitive information that it was trying to surveil.

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