BLINKEN IN BEIJING: DATA CALL

by Indran Amirthanayagam



Antony Blinken was greeted by China’s top diplomat on Monday, and will perhaps meet its president, on the final day of a rare visit aimed at trying to resurrect relations between Washington and Beijing from historic lows. —The Guardian, June 18, 2023

Semiconductors

Formosa…Taiwan…

Uigur burial practices

Tesla

Ships passing in the South China Sea

Warships frigates destroyers

Balloon looking down on the American continent

SHOT

Spy station on the island of Cuba

Confucius Institutes everywhere

in the developing world

Plastics, christmas trees, clothes

A massive relationship, two 

superpowers yet distant neighbors  

coming together on climate 

change policies but staying apart 

on so many hot buttons 

including the rights of Man and Woman


Five and a half hours meeting

(extended by an hour)

American and Chinese teams

then strolling

before a working dinner for two hours

Foreign Minister and Secretary of State

Hard at work making   peace.

eating thousand-year-old eggs.



Indran Amirthanayagam is the translator of Origami: Selected Poems of Manuel Ulacia (Dialogos Books)Ten Thousand Steps Against the Tyrant (BroadstoneBooks) is the newest collection of Indran's own poems. Recently published is Blue Window (Ventana Azul), translated by Jennifer Rathbun.(Dialogos Books). In 2020, Indran produced a “world" record by publishing three new poetry books written in three languages: The Migrant States (Hanging Loose Press, New York), Sur l'île nostalgique (L’Harmattan, Paris) and Lírica a tiempo (Mesa Redonda, Lima). He edits The Beltway Poetry Quarterly and helps curate Ablucionistas. He won the Paterson Prize and received fellowships from The Foundation for the Contemporary Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, US/Mexico Fund For Culture, and the MacDowell Colony. He hosts the Poetry Channel on YouTube and publishes poetry books with Sara Cahill Marron at Beltway Editions.

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