More channels of communication between US, China needed for stability: US ambassador

WASHINGTON – Communication between the United States and China has been at a low ebb in recent months, said US Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns on Tuesday, as he called on both governments to establish more reliable and consistent channels of communication with each other. "We had a pretty good pattern of communication until the balloon incident. And that coincided with a public disagreement between us on the issue of Chinese assistance to Russia for Russia's illegal war in Ukraine," Mr Burns said, at a talk organised by Washington-based think-tank The Stimson Centre. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken cancelled…