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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s plan to build a “China house” at the State Department addresses an urgent policy need for Washington, analysts and former diplomats said, but with more questions than answers about how the entity would operate and how much power it would wield, they are largely reserving judgment. Washington’s top envoy mentioned the plan during his long-awaited speech on May 26 articulating US President Joe Biden’s China strategy . While the speech was widely perceived by geopolitical watchers as a consolidation of the administration’s previously stated positions on China, the first official mention of the proposal...
