“I will say that Secretary of State Blinken fully expects to visit Beijing next month,” RIA Novosti quoted Price as saying.
He added that Washington is working closely with Beijing to ensure that the trip is productive and constructive.
Earlier, Sergei Luzyanin, a professor at MGIMO and the Higher School of Economics, an orientalist and doctor of historical sciences, said that Blinken would try to convince China to refuse cooperation with Russia during his visit to Beijing.
Chinese Ambassador to Russia Zhang Hanhui noted that Russian-Chinese relations are a "citadel of truth."