Analysts expect Blinken's visit will pave way for more bilateral meetings, including possible trips by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo.
Since postponing a February trip due a suspected Chinese spy balloon entering US airspace, Blinken is the highest-ranking government official to visit China in the Biden administration.
Blinken was asked at a press conference about Washington’s response to a Wall Street Journal report that cited US officials saying a new spying effort was underway on Cuba.
Blinken likely to meet with officials in Beijing on 18 June. Washington's top diplomat scrapped planned trip earlier this year over suspected Chinese spy balloon that flew across the US.
PM held a summit with Pacific Island leaders in Papua New Guinea, with Blinken scheduled to also meet the leaders later in the day and sign a defence agreement with Papua New Guinea.
For an industry globally classified as hazardous, protections such as health insurance and a provident fund for workers are necessities. In Sivakasi, they remain elusive.
The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.
Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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