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The Reuters news agency is reporting that US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo plans to meet a Chinese delegation in Hawaii this week to discuss bilateral ties that have soured deeply since the start of the year.
The world’s top two economies have been at loggerheads in recent months over the handling of the coronavirus pandemic and China’s move to impose new security legislation on Hong Kong and of course their ongoing trade dispute.
The United States and China will each allow four weekly flights between the two countries, the US Transportation Department said on Monday, easing a standoff on travel restrictions in the midst of the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Following the Chinese government approval, Delta Air Lines said it would resume passenger flights to Shanghai from Seattle next week via Seoul, and once weekly flights from Seattle and Detroit beginning in July.
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