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Analysis: Is the US strategy of engaging China working?

WASHINGTON, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Early in the Biden administration, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken vowed that the United States would only hold talks with China if they led to "tangible outcomes" to resolve disputes between the strategic rivals.Two-and-a-half years later, that approach appears to have changed.Since the start of the summer, the administration has embarked on a largely unreciprocated push to talk with Beijing, establishing working groups and sending three cabinet-level officials and its top climate envoy to Beijing.The strategy, intended in part to salvage a relationship that...