U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will hold talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in New York on Friday, the U.S. State Department said, as their countries remain locked in an intensifying rivalry in the Indo-Pacific region. The department said Thursday night the meeting of the two top diplomats, who are in New York for this year’s U.N. General Assembly sessions, was scheduled for the afternoon. Despite tensions over various issues, the United States and China have agreed to facilitate high-level communication channels, with U.S. President Joe Biden’s national security adviser Jake …