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balloon delayed this trip. now that antony blinken is actually here, the mood is polite and official, but not very warm. dr yuka kobayashi is a lecturer in china and international politics at the school of oriental and african studies. she says the visit is important. this builds on a couple of developments in the past couple months. i think when the spy incident happened and blinken s visit was cancelled in february, really us china relations hit a real low point. and we also saw earlier this month that this request for discussion with the defence ministers was cancelled. but what tends to really focus, be focused is these negative kind of really tension points. but we forget that, you know, in may, jake sullivan went, met with their counterpart, wang yi, and discussed things. so there have been gradually some kind of opening up of channels. and i think it s a real positive point in the sense that we see this visit come and,
toward communications and possibilities for high level meetings and of those kind of things can be set up i think both sides will be happy and think they have come away with something and it has been successful but it is because relations are so bad that nobody expects any sort of a break forward in any key issues and if they agree to keep talking that will be something. dr yuka kobayashi is a lecturer in china and international politics at the school of oriental and african studies. she says the visit is important.