CIA Director's Secret Meeting with Chinese Counterpart in Beijing.

CIA Director William Burns traveled secretly to Beijing last month to meet with Chinese intelligence counterparts and emphasized the importance of maintaining open lines of communication in intelligence channels. The visit is the most senior U.S. official to visit China since relations were soured by the military shootdown in February of a Chinese surveillance balloon that had traversed American territory. The Biden administration has acknowledged that other engagements have been intended to reestablish dialogue that had gone dormant on pressing bilateral issues.