US-China meeting shows effort to ease high tensions

An agreement announced on Wednesday by the US and China for their first face-to-face talks between senior diplomats in months represents the latest effort by both sides to keep a growing list of disputes from spiraling out of control. The nations said that US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman would meet Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi (王毅) next week in the northern port city of Tianjin as part of her current tour through Asia. The trip followed behind-the-scenes wrangling, with the Financial Times reporting earlier that the No. 2 US diplomat had suspended her travel plans after…