Blinken visit to Beijing seeks to ease US-China tension

The United States Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken is heading to Beijing to restore the line of communication between the two countries after a persistent economic and diplomatic tensions between the two countries. World leaders are gathering in Paris to try to forge a new global financing pact. But an open letter signed by 25 of the world's leading economists suggests more radical reform is needed. Plans to build the world's largest petrochemical refinery have led to angry protests in north west India. A group of Indian state oil majors and global giants Saudi Aramco and Abu Dhabi National Oil Company want to build the plant in western India's ecologically fragile Konkan belt.