Blinken spoke with Jaishankar to reaffirm the importance of the US-India relationship and cooperation on regional security issues, State Department spokesperson said.
The US Secretary of State in an interview Sunday expressed concern about the 'methodology and the process' followed by the forthcoming WHO report on the origin of the coronavirus.
Alaska meeting attended by US Secretary of State Blinken and top Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi among others quickly turned rocky as both sides traded barbs, raised sensitive issues.
The relations between the US and China are at an all-time low, with both countries engaged in confrontation over trade, Covid's origins, the South China Sea, and many other issues.
In a letter to Blinken, senators Bob Menendez and Chuck Schumer said peaceful dialogue and respect for viewpoints of all peaceful actors should drive the path forward on farm laws.
At the Alaska meeting, US raised concerns about cyber attacks, Uyghur Muslims & Hong Kong while China countered by citing the Black Lives Matter movement.
Jake Sullivan and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken are scheduled to meet their Chinese counterparts next week, the first in-person meeting since Joe Biden became president.
The US will speak out forcefully against China's 'genocide' against Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang province, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a Congressional hearing Wednesday.
During a Congressional hearing, Secretary of State Tony Blinken said US is working to make sure that the country is a leading international actor in creating greater access to vaccines.
It used to be Tatas and Birlas in the loose political rhetoric of the 1970s and the 1980s. Today, it is Adani and Ambani in the heated Lok Sabha election campaign.
About 300 employees had called in sick Wednesday, allegedly in protest against mismanagement of airlines. Remaining staff given ultimatum to rejoin work by end of Thursday.
Even in the weeks leading up to Chamkila’s assassination there were massacres every other day. To airbrush all of this is sheer intellectual cowardice if not a crime.
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