Top EU diplomat Kallas expected to visit Beijing in autumn amid deepest strains in years

The European Union’s foreign affairs chief, Kaja Kallas, is expected to travel to China in the autumn for her first face-to-face meeting with Foreign Minister Wang Yi since a bruising encounter in Brussels last summer, according to multiple people familiar with the planning. It would mark Kallas’ first trip to Beijing since taking on her role in 2024. The trip – with a date yet to be confirmed – would revolve around the bilateral “strategic dialogue”, a mostly annual format in which the sides...