CIA chief William Burns visited China last month, a U.S. official said Friday, as Washington seeks to resume high-level communications with Beijing in spite of heightened tensions between the two countries. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that the director of the Central Intelligence Agency traveled to Beijing "where he met with Chinese counterparts and emphasized the importance of maintaining open lines of communication in intelligence channels." The secret mission by Burns, one of President Joe Biden's closest confidants, marked the highest-level known trip by a U.

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