July 21, 2021

WASHINGTON – Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman will head to China next week to meet with Chinese officials, the State Department said Wednesday.

Sherman, the nation’s second-highest diplomat, is expected to raise an array of U.S. concerns with Foreign Minister Wang Yi and other officials in the northeastern port city of Tianjin. 

The announcement came days after the United States, along with NATO and EU allies, formally blamed China for the brazen Microsoft Exchange server attack, which became public in March. Microsoft quickly identified the group behind the hack as a relatively unknown Chinese espionage network dubbed Hafnium.

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