Top US Official John Kerry To Visit China To Restart Climate Talks

Kerry will follow in the footsteps of Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who last month paid the highest-ranking US visit to Beijing in nearly five years.

US envoy John Kerry will travel to China on Sunday, the State Department said, as the world's two biggest polluters work to restart talks on climate change.

The July 16-19 trip will be Kerry's third since taking the special climate envoy position under President Joe Biden, and he will also become the third top administration official to head to the country in recent weeks.

Kerry will follow in the footsteps of Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who last month paid the highest-ranking US visit to Beijing in nearly five years, and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen who was in China last week.