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But first.

Today, America's Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, met with the Chinese

President, Xi Jinping, in Beijing. The two men shook hands in the great hall of

the people on the edge of Tiananmen Square. The meeting caps a flurried weekend

of talks for Mr. Blinken. His visit to China was supposed to happen

months ago, but was cancelled after a huge Chinese balloon was shut down over

South Carolina. The American said it was being used for spying. As diplomatic

incidents go, it was like relief compared with, say, the Cuban missile crisis of 1962.

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