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U.S. Coast Guard Ship Sails Through Taiwan Strait Following U.S.-China Talks

After Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s trip to China to cool down tensions, Biden calls China’s President Xi Jinping a dictator.

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, firefighters work at the site of an explosion at a restaurant in Yinchuan, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Wednesday, June 21, 2023. China's president Xi Jinping ordered a national safety campaign on Thursday after a massive cooking gas explosion at a barbecue restaurant in the northwest killed 31 people and injured seven others on the eve of a long holiday weekend. (Wang Peng/Xinhua via AP)

Gas explosion in China kills at least 31 people

At least 31 people were found dead with seven others injured following an explosion at a barbeque restaurant in the Chinese city of Yinchuan, in the northwest Ningxia region.

President Joe Biden speaks at the League of Conservation Voters annual capital dinner in Washington, Wednesday, June 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden calls Xi Jinping a ‘dictator’

President Joe Biden called Chinese leader Xi Jinping a “dictator” and that China is a country with very “real economic difficulties” after Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s trip.

(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on November 11, 2022 shows US President Joe Biden (L) speaking during a press conference a day after the US midterm elections, from the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on November 9, 2022 and China's President Xi Jinping (R) speaking after walking with members of the Chinese Communist Party's new Politburo Standing Committee, the nation's top decision-making body, to meet the media in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on October 23, 2022. - President Joe Biden will urge Chinese leader Xi Jinping to restrain North Korea's "worst tendencies" and tell him that Pyongyang's arms build-up will prompt an "enhanced" US military presence in Asia, a senior official said November 12, 2022. In a December 14, 2022 meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit, Biden will tell Xi that China has "an interest in playing a constructive role in restraining North Korea's worst tendencies," National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan told reporters. (Photo by Mandel NGAN and Noel CELIS / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN,NOEL CELIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Congress urges Biden to keep distance from Beijing, focusing on Chinese EV batteries

A delegation of House legislators critical of China will go to Detroit, Michigan, on Tuesday to meet with key auto executives to reportedly try and shift the industry’s dependence away from PRC supply chains for the manufacturing of electric vehicle (EV) batteries.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks to the media before boarding his airplane at Yokota Air Base in Fussa on the outskirts of Tokyo Monday, July 11, 2022. Blinken arrived Monday on a previously unscheduled stop to Tokyo to offer condolences in person over the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Stefani Reynolds/Pool Photo via AP)

Antony Blinken to Meet with China Amid Rising Tensions

After Bill Gates met with China’s Xi Jinping, Antony Blinken’s meeting comes amid rising tensions and China’s plans to spy on the U.S. from Cuba.

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin looks on during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on the 2024 proposed budget request, and the path ahead for the US-China relationship, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on May 16, 2023. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

China declines U.S. request for meeting between defense chiefs

A request sent by the Biden administration to conduct a meeting between the country’s leading defense officials was denied by China, according to a report.