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By Trevor Hunnicutt and Michael Martina<br> WASHINGTON, June 6 (Reuters) - U.S.<br>Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to China for talks in the coming weeks, an official said on Tuesday, months after Washington's top diplomat scrapped a planned trip over a suspected Chinese spy balloon that flew across the U.S.<br> The visit is intended by Washington to be a major step toward what President Joe Biden has called a "thaw" in relations between the world's two largest economies.<br> Blinken postponed a visit to Beijing in February after the balloon, which Beijing denies was a government spy vessel, flew through U.S.<br><br>airspace and over sensitive military sites, [https://www.bbc.co.uk/search/?q=eventually eventually] being shot down by the U.S. military and creating a [https://app.photobucket.com/search?query=diplomatic%20crisis diplomatic crisis].<br> The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, did not elaborate on timing. The State Department did not confirm any updated plans for Blinken's trip.<br> "We have no travel for the Secretary to announce; as we've said previously the visit to the People's Republic of China will be rescheduled when conditions allow," deputy spokesman Vedant Patel said.<br> China's Washington embassy did not respond to a request for [https://menang4d.org/ bokep indonesia] comment.<br> Separately, and without [https://www.msnbc.com/search/?q=mentioning%20Blinken%27s mentioning Blinken's] trip, U.S.<br><br>Indo-Pacific coordinator Kurt Campbell told an event at the Hudson Institute that exchanges with Beijing were improving.<br> "The lines of communications are opening up and we are able to lay out more constructively our areas of interest and concern," although the U.S.<br>had been unsuccessful in getting China to agree to effective crisis mechanisms, [https://wideinfo.org/?s=Campbell Campbell] said.<br> He said episodes like what he called "dangerous" navigation by a Chinese destroyer in the Taiwan Strait on Saturday, showed the need for these "to prevent circumstances where unintended consequences can have terrible consequences."<br> A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said on Monday that the measures taken by the Chinese military were "reasonable, legitimate, and professional and safe."<br> "China is increasingly a great power. Her (military) forces rub up against ours much more than they did in the past. The potential for miscalculation, inadvertence, is real and growing," Campbell said.<br> UPBEAT TONE<br> The Biden administration has pushed to boost engagement with China even as ties have deteriorated over disputes ranging from military [https://www.fool.com/search/solr.aspx?q=activity activity] in the South China Sea, Beijing's human rights record, and technology competition, to democratically governed Taiwan - which China claims as its own territory.<br> But critics have questioned U.S.<br><br>overtures to China, arguing that decades of engagement have failed to change Beijing's behavior.<br> The State Department's top official for East Asia, Daniel Kritenbrink, was in Beijing this week for talks with Chinese counterparts, a visit seen as a step toward a possible Blinken trip.<br><br>The two sides struck an upbeat tone.<br> Asked by reporters in Beijing if Blinken would visit soon, Kritenbrink said: "we'll see." The United States was "working hard" to manage the relationship with China, he said.<br> Kritenbrink's arrival on June 4 coincided with the 34th anniversary of the 1989 crackdown by Chinese troops on demonstrators in and around [https://app.photobucket.com/search?query=Beijing%27s%20Tiananmen Beijing's Tiananmen] Square that rights groups say killed hundreds, if not thousands, of protesters.<br> The Biden administration dismissed any significance behind the arrival date, but some Republican lawmakers and Tiananmen survivors criticized the timing, arguing U.S.<br><br>eagerness to hold talks with Chinese officials was [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/watering watering] down U.S. positions.<br> Reuters reported in May that the State Department delayed human rights-related sanctions, export controls and other sensitive action to try to limit damage to the U.S.-China relationship after the balloon incursion. (Reporting by Trevor Hunnicutt, Michael Martina, David Brunnstrom, Simon Lewis and Doina Chiacu; Editing by Don Durfee and Grant McCool)<br>